July 10 is Teddy Bear Picnic Day! It’s a great time to add some summer learning fun with Teddy bear activities. And it’s a great time to reinforce mealtime grace and courtesy lessons! Teddy Bear Day is September 9, which gives another fun time to celebrate with some Teddy bear activities. On top of that, the second Wednesday in October is Take Your Teddy Bear to Work & School Day.
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Here are some Montessori-inspired ideas for teddy bear activities!
Montessori-Inspired Teddy Bear Picnics/Meals
I have a post with a YouTube video and resources on how to have a healthy and courteous teddy bear picnic.
You’ll find teddy bear picnic songs along with other fun teddy bear songs in my free teddy bear songs and rhymes for circle time.
Table Manners Practice from Counting Coconuts
Grace and Courtesy – Table Manners from Counting Coconuts (also featured in my roundup post Grace and Courtesy Games at Home or School)
Teddy Bear Picnic from Songbirds Montessori School
Teddy Bear Tea Party as part of Mother’s Day Tea Preparations from Montessori Mama
Montessori-Inspired Teddy Bear Activities
Montessori-Inspired Brown Bear, Brown Bear Activities (with many teddy bear activities)
Teddy Bear ABC Match and Trace from Totschooling
Teddy Bear ABC Match & Trace with Free Printable from Totschooling (This is great for matching and tracing. For a matching activity without tracing, I like to use the Learning Resources Magnetic Learning Letters in lowercase. They’re nice because the consonants are blue and vowels are red. It’s the opposite of most Montessori movable alphabets, but still works very well for differentiating vowels and consonants and doesn’t have a lot of different colors.)
Band-Aid Bear Letter Matching with Free Printable from Totschooling (This printable is lots of fun, since the Band-Aid letters look like Band-Aids! I like it for matching lowercase to lowercase letters. Later on, it’s fun to match the uppercase letters to the lowercase letters.)
Corduroy Math – Learning with Buttons from I Can Teach My Child
Corduroy Math: Learning with Buttons (Includes Free Pintable) from I Can Teach My Child (This sweet free printable works well with or without the Corduroy book and has activities for one-to-one correspondence and number recognition and skip counting. I like using micro buttons (6mm buttons) because they’ve very appealing to young children and fit well on printables. I’d probably have the child put the buttons right on the white numbers. You could even add dots on the numbers for button/dot matching for children who would benefit from that.)
Teddy Bear Games for Kids with Subscriber Freebie from The Natural Homeschool
Early Learning with Teddy Bear Counters from We Can Do All Things
Bathing Baby Teddy-Bear (Photo from Family FECS)
Montessori Activity: Bathing Baby Teddy-Bear from Family FECS
Color Sorting Bear Activity for the Light Table from Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
“Sewing” Clothes onto the Teddy Bear (Photo from Barefoot in Suburbia)
“Sewing” Clothes onto the Teddy Bear from Barefoot in Suburbia
Teddy Bear Bread from Messy Little Monster
Teddy Bear Bread from Messy Little Monster
Teddy Bear Bread from Chasing Cheerios
Corduroy-inspired Montessori Grammar Work (Photo by Julie at Nurturing Learning)
Corduroy Inspired Montessori Grammar Work from Nurturing Learning (no longer available)
Tonging Marbles onto Suction Cup Teddy Bear from My Montessori Journey
More Bear Resources
- Montessori-Inspired Brown Bear, Brown Bear Activities
- Free Polar Bear Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- Free Bear Printables and Montessori-Inspired Bear Activities
- Free Bear Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download
- Free Bear Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- Free Panda Printables and Montessori-Inspired Panda Activities
- Free Panda Do-a-Dot Printables (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- Free Panda Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
- Kids’ Teddy Bear Activities Pinterest Board
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Oh how fun!
Jen
Thanks, Jen! I LOVE teddy bear activities … how fun that there are actually special teddy bear days to observe! 🙂
Fun! Love the Corduroy grammar work. I am happy to be linking up this week. Thank you so much for sharing and for hosting.
Thanks so much … I love the Corduroy grammar work, too! Thanks so much for linking up. I always enjoy your posts! 🙂
This is such a fun theme! Thanks for the inspiration, Deb! The school where I interned had a Teddy Bear Picnic every year, and until today I thought it was a clever idea our director had thought up. I feel silly now that I know better, but I’m excited about the idea of carrying the tradition on now 🙂
Thanks so much, Melissa! I’ve never experienced any teddy bear picnics, but maybe I’ll get to when I have grandkids. It would be a fun tradition to start! 🙂
I love your bear activities! And I need to put Teddy Bear picnic day on my calendar, so we don’t miss it next year!
Thanks, MaryAnne! Of course, you can still celebrate it this year. We often celebrated days like that after the fact and said we were celebrating in honor of the holiday “last Tuesday” (or whenever it was)! 🙂
Lovely ideas! I love that post from We Can Do All Things with the counting bears! Thanks for sharing at The Sunday Showcase this week!
Thanks so much … I love that post, too! Thanks for co-hosting Sunday Showcase each week! 🙂
It may sound like a little bit of a ‘sissy’ comment for a man to be making, Deb, but how adoreable is that first picture with the young lad pouring the water with his little bear friend propped up next to him?! 😛
I don’t think that’s a “sissy” comment, BJ … that photo is totally adorable! 🙂
Deb, I have a post about celebrating Teddy Bears Picnic Day too! http://www.thebookchook.com/2013/07/lets-celebrate-teddy-bears-picnic-day.html
Sewing the clothes of the bear is a great activity for kids to develop their fine motor skills.
This is great Deb! Thanks for the tips.