My 2-year-old granddaughter, Zoey, is in love with Thomas the train. Her 2nd birthday party even had a Thomas the train theme. (I thought it was very cool to see a little girl with a train birthday party.)
In honor of Zoey’s and many other kids’ love of trains, my theme this month is focused on free train printables and Montessori-inspired train activities.
I’m sharing the links to lots of free train printables for preschoolers through 1st graders (and sometimes older). To keep my list manageable, I don’t share coloring pages unless a page has a specific educational purpose related to trains.
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Free Printables Featured in the Train Activities at PreK + K Sharing
Thomas the Train Puzzle
Thomas the Train Puzzle
Free Printable: Thomas and Friends Puzzle from Thomas and Friends (Note: This specific puzzle printable is no longer available, but you could print out one of the other printables from Thomas and Friends and cut it into 9 pieces to make your own puzzle.) With toddlers, you can laminate and use the uncut printable as a control chart or background for the puzzle. Older children can color a printable for their puzzle and put the puzzle together without the control chart. Children who are very skilled at solving puzzles could sort out and put together more than one puzzle.
I used a large plastic tray from Montessori Services.
Polar Express Train Track Cutting Practice
Polar Express Train Track Cutting Practice
Free Printable: Train Track Cutting Practice from the Polar Express Mega Pack by 123 Homeschool 4 Me
This was super easy to prepare. It simply involved printing out the printable on cardstock (which is easier for young children to cut than paper). I love the fun and creative printable for cutting practice.
Magnetic Train Shapes Tracing Activity
Magnetic Train Shapes Tracing Activity
Free Printable: Train Shapes from Zoomin’ Movin’ Alphabet Letter Tt by Royal Baloo
I used the Melissa and Doug Magnetic Chalk Dry Erase Board (with chalk and eraser) for this activity. I also used a Montessori Services basket to hold the train shapes.
After printing out, laminating, and cutting out the shapes, I added a piece of magnetic strip to each shape. This activity can be used as both a way to reinforce the names of shapes as well as a pre-writing activity similar to the Montessori metal insets. After using the magnets to attach each shape, the child could use the chalk to trace around the shapes.
Number Train
Number Train Tray
Free Printable: Number Train by Sara from All Things with Purpose at Sugar Bee Crafts
The size of this learning activity adds extra interest. Each numbered train car is on an 8 1/2 x 11″ piece of cardstock. It couldn’t be much easier to prepare. I just had to print out and laminate each page.
Giant Number Train Layout – Each Number Is a Full Sheet of Paper
Beginning Letter Sound Train
Beginning Letter Sound Trains
Free Printable: All Aboard the Beginning Sound Train by Deeanne Wright at Teachers Pay Teachers
I used some inexpensive sandpaper letters I had from my master’s degree school placement. You could use sandpaper letters or other tactile letters to reinforce the letter sound before putting together the letter sound train.
Beginning Letter Sound Train Layout
I used a Montessori Services rug for the layout. You can find resources on how to introduce Montessori phonics in my DIY beginning Montessori phonics post.
Polar Express Telling Time Train
Polar Express Telling Time Train
Free Printable: Telling Time Train from the Polar Express Mega Pack by 123 Homeschool 4 Me
Many children today have difficulty reading an analog clock. An activity like this one can provide some of the much-needed practice. The printable is actually for matching clocks by drawing lines. I like to cut apart printables to make hands-on activities like this activity to match digital and analog clocks.
Free Train Printables (for any season) for Preschoolers-First Graders (some printables for up to grade 3)
- Number Trains from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
- Number Train Puzzle from Totschooling
- Train Number Cards from Preschool Printables
- Number train printable from Bubbles and Bobbins
- Pattern Trains from Preschool Powol Packets
- Ordinal Numbers Train from Activity Village
- Odd and Even Train from Part 1 of the Transportation Preschool Pack by Homeschool Creations
- Letter Tt (train) Alphabet Maze from 1+1+1=1
- Train Craft from Learn Create Love
- Train Crafts from Danielle’s Place
- Paper Engineer’s Hat Craft from Play Trains
- Paper Engineer’s Hat Craft from Danielle’s Place
- Thomas and Friends Printables from PBS Kids
- Dinosaur Train Printables from PBS Kids
- Modern DIY Train-Themed Birthday Party Printables from The Spaghetti Westerner
- Train Birthday Printables from Poofy Cheeks
- Train Printables from Teachers Pay Teachers
Christmas Train Printables, Including Polar Express Printables
- Train Advent Calendar Gift Tags from Play Trains
- Polar Express Party Kit from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Polar Express Mega Pack from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
- Polar Express Pack in English and French from 3 Dinosaurs
- Polar Express Printables from In All You Do
- Polar Express Unit from Teaching Heart
- Polar Express Unit from Chalk Talk
- Polar Express Lapbook from Homeschool Share
- Polar Express Hundreds Chart Freebie by Teaching Times 2
- Polar Express Printables from Teachers Pay Teachers
More of My Train and Travel/Transportation Resources
You’ll find more Montessori-inspired train activities in my “Montessori-Inspired Train Activities with Spielgaben {Free Printables}.”
- Free Travel Printables and Montessori-Inspired Travel Activities
- Fun and Learning with Montessori-Inspired World Travel Activities and Games
- Free and Fun Family Road Trip Songs
- Free Jet Do-a-Dot Phonics Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- The Best Transportation and Travel Books for Kids
- Montessori-Inspired Activities for Pre-Schoolers: Car Parking Game
- Free Transportation Printables and Montessori-Inspired Transportation Math Activities
- Montessori-Inspired Construction Unit
- Free Police Printables and Montessori-Inspired Police Activities
- Free Fire Safety Printables and Montessori-Inspired Fire Safety Activities
- Free Ambulance Printables and Montessori-Inspired Ambulance Activities
- Montessori-Inspired Train Activities with Spielgaben {Free Printables}
- Free Train Printables and Montessori-Inspired Train Activities
- Free Car Printables and Montessori-Inspired Car Activities
- Super-Cool Beginning Reading Activity – Race Car Blending
- Free Car Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- Free Car Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- Fun Magnetic Vehicle STEM Trays and Activity Bags
- Spielgaben STEM Challenge: Build and Fly a Magnetic Airplane
- Montessori Resources for Land, Air, and Water Transportation Activities
- The Ultimate Montessori-Inspired Transportation Unit
- Transportation Unit Study Pinterest Board
- Resources for a World Travel Unit Study
- Continent Map Work
- DIY Pin Maps
- Montessori Continent Boxes
- DIY Cosmic Nesting Boxes, Map Towers, a nd “Me on the Map” Activities
- Montessori-Inspired State Box – Colorado
- Laura Ingalls Wilder and Montessori Washboard Activity (South Dakota and Booking Across the USA Tour)
- Montessori-Inspired Map Activities Using Pin It! Maps
- Earth Exploration Activities from Montessori By Mom
- Montessori-Inspired Little Passports Global Adventure (with links to all my Little Passports activity posts)
- The Ultimate Guide to Montessori Geography Activities for Preschoolers
- Creative Ideas for Montessori Continent Boxes from Around the World,
- Montessori-Inspired Global Adventure Pinterest Board
- Kids’ Geography Activities Pinterest Board
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Thanks for sharing my Polar Express printables. This is such a great list!
We are getting our daughter a train set for Christmas. I think this would go great with it.
What a great list! Thanks for sharing it at the Thoughtful Spot Blog Hop! 🙂
Thank you for sharing with us this amazing collection of train printables! I am featuring your post this week on Learn & Play Link Up. Hope to see you link with us again. Thank you!
aww that’s cute for kids
Hi, good time, best of all, I appreciate your attention.
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