Four Seasons Theme

Ideas, activities and books to read relating to a four seasons theme for preschoolers.

Use a theme about the four seasons to introduce children to different types of weather and changes that occur in their environments at different times of the year.

You could begin by discussing
• weather.
  
• clothing
• foods and drinks .
• activities
  that are common or popular in certain seasons

Books about the Four Seasons

You could use the following books to complement your four seasons theme:

The story is about urbanisation and how a house in the countryside becomes surrounded by development and technology before finally being 'rescued', but the theme of the changing seasons and the apple trees can't be missed.

After reading this story, talk to your children about how trees change from season to season. Ask questions about their knowledge of trees at different times of the year.

Set in hard times, post-World War 2, this story is about a mother who sets about bartering her precious possessions for wool and services needed to get wool from a farmer spun and tailored into a new coat for her daughter. Its a heart-warming story that progresses through the four seasons of the year.

This charming and humorous book takes readers month by month through the year at Maple Hill Farm, showing them the changes of the seasons and their effects on farmlife.

Four Seasons Theme Activities

1. Four Seasons Poster

2. Tree Collage

3. Fall Preschool Theme - includes various crafts, fall nursery rhymes, recipes and sensory activities

4. Winter Preschool Theme - crafts, recipes and winter nursery rhymes and songs

5. Other Preschool Crafts

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