Geography Activities for 4-6 year olds

by Liesl - Homeschool Den

Last Thursday I talked about using the Montessori landmark cards, but I didn’t think to talk about ED’s other geography activities. After reading through Me on the Map (which is just perfect for the 4-6 year old crowd), I had ED do an activity we had done a year and a half ago or so. You have the kids color in and paste their location, pinpointing their location by going from the largest to the smallest location. For example… I printed out labels for I live on Earth, I live in North America.

the Earth
North America
USA
Kansas
Topeka
77 Maple Street

She colored in the maps and glued them onto the circles with the labels at the bottom:

Then you put the entire collection together (largest at the bottom) with a brad at the top:

In the past I’ve done variations of this activity using stacking boxes instead. This post from several years ago was Nesting Boxes from the Galaxy to the Atom — and has a similar idea…

Here’s a close-up

We also sang through the song about the 7 continents and ED put in pins on our world map:

Here are the kids singing the Seven Continent Song. Last spring someone wondered if we could share the tune–so we made our first you-tube video. We had a number of bloopers and flubs (which made us roll on the floor laughing), but this version went fairly well! So… here are the kids in their very first you-tube video!