I agree when I say that humans have produced wonders upon wonders in the field of technology. We have progressed so far that we are using tons of technological wonders daily nowadays.
So it is our sole duty to pass on the knowledge of these technological miracles to the next generation like a bus.
You can pass on this knowledge in different ways, but the easiest and most effective way to do so is by making them perform certain activities surrounding it.
Thus, here are a few fun bus 🚌 activities that will provide a better understanding of it to your kids. 😊
Fascinating Few Bus Activities For Your Children
I would suggest that these few bus activities will be very fun and exciting for your kids. It will also bring with it tons of information about this very big vehicle filled with technological stuff, which will surely amaze the newer generation 👦.
On top of this, your kids will also be able to experience a bunch of new stuff, which will help them develop various skills.
So, in this blog post, I compiled a list of bus activities that are fun as well as valuable for the kids.😁
Bus Artwork
My son loves any kind of activity surrounding art, so this bus artwork, which I found, will surely give him so much joy!
For this activity, your kid can use a variety of art materials like colored markers🖊️, various paint colors, and normal-sized paper 📄 to create their bus artwork.
Therefore, this activity will surely help your kids improve their fine motor skills and enhance their artistic skills and creative thinking. So I highly recommend this particular activity for your kids🧒🏻.
Drama
This is yet another interesting activity that will make your kid curious about this modern-day vehicle, also known as a bus.
In this activity, you need to first set up a bus-themed dramatic play area for your children 🧒🏻so that they can play and act out on their own. For this activity, your kids will require seats, steering wheels, and ticket stands.
Hence, this activity eventually promotes creativity, imagination, and social skills when children start learning about working together and taking on different roles.
STEM Experiments
Every kid likes an interactive fun activity consisting of toys, don’t they? Thus, this activity will be perfect for all those kids who love such kinds of activities.
In this activity, your kids will be able to explore the concept of wheels🛞 and transportation and will get to know how these technological things work with science 🔭 experiments.
For this activity, your kid will need several materials like toy cars, blocks, and a few ramps to experiment with.
This particular activity not only promotes critical thinking but also helps to improve your kids’ problem-solving skills. This is why it is one of my favorite exercises that I constantly perform with my little son.
Counting with the Wheels on the Bus
This is such a fun activity for your kids to try and is one of my son’s favorites! In this activity, your kid needs to count the number of windows on the different varieties of buses.
This activity may sound simple, but it is a lot more effective than you think. With the help of this activity, your kids can develop their counting skills by using the number of windows 🪟 on a bus.
Along with this, this activity can also teach your kid about practicing writing and recognizing numbers, and it can also help to improve basic mathematical 🧮concepts, including even and odd numbers.
Pro Tip:
You can either show pictures of the different types of buses from where the children will count the number of windows, or you can take them to the outside world 🌍.
Instead of showing online photos, you can show real-life buses, which will not only make them understand better but also ignite their curiosity regarding these things.
Pin the Wheels on the Bus
My son loved this adorable quick activity, which requires so little preparation to perform.
For this activity, your kids need to be blindfolded, and then each child will test if they can correctly attach the wheels to the bus.
It is an amazing rendition of a classic kid’s party game 🎯, and this is the reason I want to suggest this awesome activity to all of you who want to make your kids uniquely learn about buses.
Pro Tip:
In addition to the toy wheels, you also need to set up a little cartoonish bus setup that lacks wheels. There has to be a little space in those areas so that your kids can easily and correctly attach the wheels.
This will enhance their experience, and for them, it will feel like a very realistic challenge while simultaneously learning about its features.
The History of Buses
Kids love to get to know more about certain things that they are interested in.
So, with the help of the previous activities, you can ignite their interest in it, and after that, when you teach them about its history, it will further boost their interest and curiosity.
Thus, this activity solely focuses on teaching the kids about the history of buses and their evolution over time. You can start from the first buses to any part of history that involved buses, like how they changed over the years and became more efficient and eco-friendly🌏.
Pro Tip:
You can also make them learn about the roles of buses in transportation 🚌and how they impacted society and helped us throughout the years.
This will eventually make them more invested in it, and hence, they will get to know and understand it much better through the other activities.
Music Time
This particular activity requires the use of music 🎶, and I am quite sure almost every kid loves to hear some music.
So, this activity revolves around this specific factor. In this activity, the kid needs to experiment with several different instruments and sounds to create a musical interpretation of a song named “Wheels on the Bus.”
This activity also combines music with creativity by allowing the children to experiment with different sounds and instruments.
Pro Tip:
If your kid has some difficulty experimenting with different instruments and sounds, then one alternative to this can be to just have a casual singing session.
This will not at all affect the main goal of this activity, and instead of all the original goals it was focusing on, it can also help in building a strong bond between you and your kid through this fun session 😜.
Write a Story
Another great activity for your kids is to write a story. In this activity, children have to create a story inspired by the song “Wheels on the Bus.”
Through this, children can learn about storytelling, the power of imagination, and creative writing ✍🏻. The kids need to write a story about a badly behaved bus, and they also have to design a wanted poster of it.
This is a great and unique way to engage the kids in gaining knowledge about this kind of stuff.
Pro Tip:
Instead of creating a story inspired by the song “Wheels on the Bus,” you can also let your kids write new verses for the same song.
This will create no change in the outcome of the activity, and instead, it might be more comfortable and easier for the kids to do this alternate part of the activity.
Cooking with Kids
If your kid is a foodie 🤤just like my son, then this is one of the best activities for him or her.
For this activity, you need to make a bus-shaped snack like a cookie 🍪 which can also be enjoyed after singing the song.
With the help of this recipe, a classic rice crispy treat turns into a delicious treat that is shaped like a bus. This is surely a simple and easy activity that can be easily performed with your child, and he or she will love it.
Pro Tip:
According to your preference, you can turn any kind of food into a bus-shaped snack. This will not only excite your kid but also make him or her overjoyed to see his favorite snack being reformed into a miniature bus.
Class Gift
Who doesn’t want to be featured somewhere? This activity focuses on this aspect and is yet another fun and very interactive one.
In this activity, your kids need to connect their ideas with the wheels on the bus to create a very adorable folding picture frame 🖼️ containing each child’s face.
This will not only make them more excited about this activity but also give them a new and unique experience to see themselves featured in such an activity.
Pro Tip:
To make things a bit easier, you can let your kids use the free downloadable template with the help of which they can do such activities.
With some guidance and assistance from you, your kids will easily be able to make such crafts. This practice will also help them enhance⏫ their crafting skills and abilities.
Digital Creation
To enhance the effectiveness of an activity surrounding modern-day technological achievement, another technological wonder can be used.
So, with the help of modern-day technology, we can easily make a digital bus 🚐. This activity can be done by using the website known as “Canva” because of their wide availability of free digital posters, cards ♦️, and many more.
Your child will have a great time learning and experiencing this new way of learning, and I am quite sure he or she will love this activity.
Pro Tip:
Instead of making a digital bus, you can also create a video based on the “Wheels on the Bus” song. Both of these would have the same effect, and you can change the respective activities based on your child’s 👶🏻comfort.
Creative Writing
Every kid has their own set of knowledge 🧠 and creative imagination skills. So to take out and know about all of those ideas, you should surely try this activity.
This activity encourages kids to write their bus adventures or any bus-themed storybook📚.
This will not only help the kids share all of their imaginations and unique stories they have in their minds but also help them enhance their writing abilities.
Pro Tip:
You can use a story template that connects Halloween 🎃 with the wheels on the bus, where children can spin the “Spooky Storytelling Wheel” to determine what creative aspects will be needed in their story.
Other than this, your child can modify their stories in their own way and create a unique story with the help of story templates and their creativity.
Conclusion
My son and I have done these activities together to teach him about the buses in a fun and exciting way. This also helped him improve various skills while enjoying the adventure and excitement that the activities provided 😍.
In addition to all of it, he could also learn more about this very common huge vehicle that all of us use almost every day. I hope you enjoyed reading the above list of activities that I have listed in this blog post🥰.
Please leave a comment below if you want to add more activities to this list or have questions for me regarding the activities I mentioned – I would love to hear from you! ❤️
I’m a former teacher (and mother of Two Childs) with a background in child development. Here to help you with play-based learning activities for kids. ( Check my Next startup Cledemy.Com)