100th Day Activities for Preschool
By LAURIN BRAINARD Updated Jan. 16, 2025
The 100th Day of school is one of my favorite days of school! I plan an entire day of learning around the number 100 to celebrate that we have been learning for 100 days! We all dress up like we are 100 years old - complete with clothing, wigs, glasses, pearls, canes, and anything else that a 100 year old person may wear!
How to Begin a 100th Day Celebration
This fine motor dot marker activity is my favorite way to begin our 100th Day celebration! We discuss how we have been learning for 100 days, which makes us 100 DAYS SMARTER! Then, just grab your favorite dot marker colors and dot each number to make the number 100.
100th Day Sensory Bin
In our 100th Day sensory bin, we are sorting 100 items into categories! I created the sensory bin mat with blank ten frames so that you can use any small items you have on hand inside your sensory bin. Then, give your littles time to identify which items are in the same categories and sort them on the mat!
Here are some items you may have on hand:
- pom pom balls
- beans
- small stickers
- bells
- counting cubes
- legos
- small blocks
- dice
- cereal pieces
- m&ms
- marshmallows
- buttons
- beads
- the sky is the limit here!
100th Day Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers
Fine motor skills are so important for our preschoolers, so I can’t let the 100th day go by without some hands-on fine motor practice!
Read this post if you want to learn more about fine motor skills: What are fine motor skills?
Lacing Cards
Time to learn how to build the number 100! These lacing cards each include one number so that your preschoolers can learn how to place 3 numbers in order to build the number 100.
To prepare these lacing cards, cut out each star. Then, laminate the stars and leave a small edge of lamination around each star. Hole punch each dot and they will be ready for lots of hands to practice lacing!
100th Day Necklace
Create a 100th Day necklace that becomes a delicious snack! First, we sort ten groups of ten pieces of cereal by color on ten frame workmat. Then, we thread each piece of cereal onto a shoelace or piece of yarn. If you are using yarn, make sure to add a piece of tape to the end to make it easier to thread.
Math Activities for Preschoolers
Our first math activity of the day is a color by number page. You can use this activity to work on the numbers from 1-9, then watch as your littles find the number 100 on the page!
Since our littles finish activities at different times, I love to use this math puzzle and some counting clip cards for fast finishers.
If you are completing these activities at home with your own children, then you can work through each activity at your child’s pace. It’s also fun to group up with a few other homeschool families for the 100th day, too!
100th Day Craft for Preschoolers
I love incorporating crafts into all of our learning themes! To celebrate the 100th day, preschoolers will use a q-tip to dot each gumball in the gumball machine. They can even try to count to 100 as they dot each gumball!
To add an extra learning component, make sure to review color names as you pass out the materials. You can also have your littles work on creating patterns using the dots of paint.
Grab Your Plans and Printables
I hope you are as excited as I am to celebrate the 100th Day of Preschool this year! You can download all the printables in this post in my 100th Day Preschool Activities from my shop. It comes with 20+ lesson plans and all the 100th Day themed printable materials you will need to make teaching your preschoolers as easy as possible.
If you are looking for even more preschool fun for you and your little ones, then check out my Preschool Curriculum Bundle for a variety of fun lessons and activities you can use all year long!
I hope you enjoy playing and learning with your little ones this week! Feel free to send me an Insta message at @theprimarybrain if you have any questions about how to get started teaching your little ones!
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Written on January 16th, 2025 by Laurin Brainard