Western Cowboy theme activities for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten.

Cowboy/Rodeo/Western Books

Western Literacy Activities

Western Syllable Activity

Students will identify the number of syllables in each picture. This activity includes a black and white recording sheet and is available in the Western Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Beginning Sounds

Students will identify the beginning sound of each picture and attach a clothespin with the correct letter to the corresponding picture. There is also a black and white recording sheet included with this activity. The beginning sounds activity is available in the Western Literacy Packet in the printables section below.

Western Rhyming

Students will have fun matching rhyming pictures on their boots! This activity is available in the Western Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Yee Haw! Alphabet Game

This activity includes both upper and lower case versions in black and white or color. Students will take turns drawing a card, identifying the letter, and marking it on their recording sheet. When the Yee Haw! card is drawn all the students can shout Yee Haw! like a cowboy or cowgirl. This activity also includes two recording sheets, one for uppercase letters and one for lowercase letters and is available in the Western Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Vocabulary Cards and Chart

The printable word chart and vocabulary cards are available in both black and white and color. Place the printable word cards in a pocket chart or on a word wall. These cards can be used to help develop vocabulary and can be found in the Western Literacy Packet in the printables section below.

Western Pocket Chart Sentences

The predictable text in this pocket chart set will help your students learn concepts of print such as left to right directionality, return sweep, one-to-one correspondence, and more. The printable pocket chart sentences are available in the Western Literacy Packet in the printables section below.

Western Emergent Reader

The predictable text in this book is designed to support your emergent readers. Use this book to reinforce concepts of print such as words are separated by spaces, left to right and top to bottom, written words match spoken words, common sight words, and more. This easy to assemble emergent reader is offered in both black and white and color in the Western Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Read and Write around the Room

This fun read and write around the room activity is available in the Western Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Math Activities

Western Graph

Provide your students with this fun data collection activity! Students will enjoy rolling the cube and recording their rolls on the recording sheet. This printable activity is available in the Western Math Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Counting Book

This easy to assemble book helps reinforce number sense and counting; it is available in the Western Math Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Patterns

Help your students develop logical thought and reasoning skills with this patterning activity available in the Western Math Packet in the printables section below.

Western Races

Available in the Western Math Packet located in the printables section below, the races game will help build number sense and one to one correspondence. Students will roll a die and move their playing piece towards the horse.

Western Board Game

Can you help the cowboy find his horse? This printable board game is located in the Western Math Packet below.

Western Play Dough Counting Mats

Students will love this fun play dough counting activity! The Western Play Dough Counting Mats are available in the Western Math Packet located in the printable section below.

Western Yee Haw! Number Identification Game

This game is available {in black and white or color} in the Western Math Packet located in the printables section below. The Number Identification game can be played using numbers 1-10 or numbers 1-20 depending on your student’s ability levels. The playing cards are available in black and white and color for your convenience. Also included are two printable recording sheets in black and white, one for each version of the game.

Western Numeral Quantity Game

Students will identify the numeral on their wheel and match the cards with the correct quantity to the wheel. This game is available in the Western Math Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Classification Activity

Students will classify things they might see in the desert. This activity is available in the Western Math Packet located in the printables section below.

Western Chili Sight Words
Setting: Small Group, Word Work
Objective: Identifying sight words
Materials: Empty pinto bean or chili cans- 1 per student in your small group (make sure edges are not sharp or cover edges with masking tape), magnetic letters, magnetic stove burner covers, sight word rings, spoons
Directions: Fill each can of beans with magnetic letters (you will need to strategically place the letters that are in the sight words your students are learning in the cans) Give each child in your small group a metal stove burner cover (dollar store), a can of magnetic letters, a spoon, and a ring of sight words that he or she is learning. Students will use their spoons to fish out magnetic letters to spell words by placing them on their magnetic burner cover.

Fun Western Activities

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Materials: Texas shaped macaroni, available at some grocery stores in TX, food coloring, rubbing alcohol, outline of state of TX on large construction paper, red die-cut hearts, glue, small photo of each child.
Dye half the macaroni red and the other half blue using the food coloring and the rubbing alcohol and set out to dry overnight. When dry, have the students glue the macaroni around the outline of Texas in a red/blue pattern. Next, glue the red heart in the middle of the state and add the student’s photo to the middle of the heart. Caption these “Deep in the Heart of Texas”. This makes a great display during open house or Texas Public Schools Week.

Texas Flag

Materials: red construction paper, blue constructions paper, glue, Xerox black line copies of Texas state flag, white die-cut star
First, cut the paper into squares. Have the students glue the squares onto the appropriate sections of the flag. When finished, glue the star in the correct spot. You could also do this with project with squares of tissue paper.

I Feel Like a Cowboy Class Book

Materials: camera, cowboy hat, stick pony, paper bag vest, bandana, cardstock.
Take a picture of each student dressed in the hat, vest, and bandana “riding” the stick pony. Print each picture and glue each one to a piece of cardstock. Add this caption on the bottom “I feel like a cowboy when ______” . Ask each student when they feel like a cowboy and fill their responses in the blank for them. Finally, laminate and bind your class book. This activity is a companion to the copy and color book “Cowboy Roy”.

Western Day!

Materials: note to parents, Texas shaped tortilla chips (available at HEB stores or Central Market), queso dip, green Gatorade, extra cowboy hats and bandanas.
Each year we have a Western Rodeo Day for the grand finale to our Western unit. We start by sending a note home to the parents explaining the day and guidelines to follow for making their very own recycled stick pony. On the day of the Rodeo students bring their creative ponies to school and are allowed to dress like cowboys. We have stick pony races, drink “cactus juice” (green Gatorade) and have Texas chips and queso. I have a supply of bandanas and cowboy hats on hand for those who forget theirs. We have a sing along around the “campfire” (lights off, use flashlights, sit in a circle). You could also have a chili cook-off to spice things up!

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