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President’s Day Activities for Kids

Exploring President’s Day with kids can be a lot of fun. One of the first things that come to mind is money because we can find both President Abraham Lincoln and President George Washington on them. Here are some ideas to do at home or school with your child in honor of our founding fathers.

Plus we’ve included a free printable book for President’s Day too.

President's Day Activities for Kids

President’s Day Activities for Kids

President’s Day Necklace

Every year, I make President’s Day necklaces with my Kindergarten class and now with my kids. We would discuss the colors and symbols of the United States in addition to the Presidents.

The necklace is made from 3 circles of varying sizes and a paper penny.  A penny stamp, sticker, or color print of the coin would work as well.  The kids hole punch and thread a yarn through. 

This necklace will help them to remember the symbols and the important things we have discussed that day!

Presidents Day Necklace Craft for Kids

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

This year, my five year old also drew this portrait of Abraham Lincoln using white crayons on black paper.  You could do this with several different presidents as you learn about them, making 5-6 pictures.

When the pictures have been completed, you can staple them together to make a president’s book!

Drawing of Abraham LIncoln for Presidents Day Craft Idea

I always find it easy to learn about President’s Day by learning about Money at the same time. Here are a few activities your child might enjoy and learn the names of Presidents from and be able to identify money too.

Counting Pennies Book for Presidents Day

Counting Pennies Book

Here’s a fun way to work on Abraham Lincoln and Counting all at the same time. Have your child cut out the coins and numbers. Then have them glue them onto the pages of the book in numerical order.

At the end you can have them glue the pictures of the President. We added President Obama and George Washington.

Coin Rubbing activity for presidents day craft for kids

Coin Rubbing

I love to make activities that are hands-on for my children. This is a simple but very hands-on activity for your child to learn the coins and a bonus is that they learn the names of the Presidents and some American symbols.

Grab a sheet of paper and some crayons and let them explore what happens when you rub the crayon on the paper over different coins. Then we talked about the different things we saw and labeled them with words.

Making patterns with coins for presidents day with kids

Coin Patterning

Either using their Coin Rubbings or Printable Coins or Real Coins you can have your child make a pattern with coins.  As they are creating their patterns you can talk about the name of the coin, the name of the presidents and the American Symbol on the back.

If You Were President Printable

If I Were President Writing Prompt

DOWNLOAD AND PRINT

Here’s a Little Reader book to find out What Does a President Do? from Scholastic (free)

There are so many resources we’ve shared that I plan to use with my daugther tomorrow when she’s home from school and wanting to know the importance of celebrating President’s Day.

Click to see our favorite President’s Day Books

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About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Discovering Montessori says

    February 20, 2012 at 6:51 am

    Nice ideas! I love all of the activities. Thank you for sharing.

    Reply
  2. smorss99 says

    February 20, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    Thank you so much for the shout out! I truly appreciate it 🙂

    Reply
  3. Raising a Happy Child says

    February 25, 2012 at 2:19 am

    Thanks for all these great ideas and links! It looks like you had a great Presidents' Day.

    Reply

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