Preschool Post OfficeTheme

Here are some ideas to help you plan your Post Office/Mail Lesson. It's helpful to put a shout out to your Preschool families prior to starting your "Post Office" week. Ask them to save "junk mail", envelopes, small boxes, mailers, Magazines (anything the kids can deliver).

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Planning your Post Office Preschool Theme

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Featured Plan Activities

Below you’ll find activity ideas featured in our Post Office sample plan.

Art & Creativity
Make Your Own Postcard
Use card stock to have children create their own post cards. Children can craft/dictate a message to be mailed home.

Dramatic Play
Post Office Dramatic Play
 Create an immersive Post Office Dramatic Play experience with this comprehensive pack of pretend play props. This PDF file includes everything you need to set up a realistic post office setting, from signs and posters to employee labels and job tags. Enhance the learning and fun with features like Design Your Own Stamps, Weigh Your Packages Here, and How to Send a Letter or Post Card Poster.

Building & Small World Play
Post Office Small World Play
Add post office trucks, play houses, streets, and mail carrier toys to your Construction Space this week.

Language and Literacy
Postcard Alphabet Puzzles
Piece together alphabet puzzles using printable postcards.

Language and Literacy
Stock your Writing Center
Add some fun square stickers, lined paper and envelopes to your writing center this week to encourage children to write letters. Encourage them to write a letter or draw a picture to send to someone special. Our Post Office Dramatic Play pack includes several printables perfect for your writing space.

Mathematics
Mail Carrier Roll & Count
Help the carrier deliver their mail with this fun math counting game.
Sort Junk Mail by Size
Put junk mail to good use by using it in your learning activities! Collect junk mail over a period of time leading up to this theme. Invite preschoolers to sort the mail by size. Children can also see what letters, words, or numbers they can identify. When you're done shred it up to use in a sensory bin.

Science & Discovery
Post Office Sensory Bin
Create a post office sensory bin from shredded paper. Add in the colorful stamps from the stamp color matching activity from the Post Office Activity Pack. As children dig through the paper and find the stamps they can match them up to the correct envelope.

Physical Fine Motor
Post Office Pre-Writing Practice
Enhance fine motor skills with engaging pre-writing practice sheets.

Physical Gross Motor
Package Relay
Promote gross motor skills with an energetic package relay race.

Other
Stamps Around the World
Use the internet to research what stamps look like in other countries. Do this along with the children by bookmarking sites ahead of time or print out some examples for them to look at.
Learn About your Mail Carrier
If possible, take some time to visit with a mail carrier at the post office or along their route. Learn more about what they do in this video. Watch the Video: A Day in the Life of a Mail Carrier.

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Post Office  Theme Arts & Crafts Ideas for Preschoolers

Supplies to add to your creativity station: Small stickers (to be used as stamps), postcards, old greeting cards, extra envelopes, variety of pens and pencils

Make Your Own Postcard

Use card stock to have children create their own post cards. Children can craft/dictate a message to be mailed home (Who doesn't love receiving mail!)

Make Your Own Mailbag

Get crafty with your preschoolers by making a fun mail bag! Check out my easy to follow DIY Mail Bag Tutorial for step-by-step directions.

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Make a Stamp Collage

Use decorative scissors to make shapes that resemble stamps and make your own collage.

Packing Materials Collage

Save up those packing materials that are no longer of use to be given a new life as a collage! Bubble wrap and packing peanuts would be a fun collage, children can also make bubble wrap prints. 

Shades of Blue Painting Activity 

Blue is the color the postal service so encourage preschoolers explore making their own shades of blue by exploring and mixing colors.

Paint with Bubble Wrap

Paint on bubble wrap! The bubble wrap can be stamped onto paper for a great texture. 

Post Office Dramatic Play

Adding a Post office to your Dramatic Play area adds great fun. This can be as simple as adding a few shoe boxes or bins to a table,  or as complex as creating some personalized DIY mailboxes for your kiddos. Adding some satchels or fabric grocery bags to the area allows the kids to "deliver" and "pick-up" mail to their friends.
​Our Post Office Dramatic Play Pack has all the signs and props you need to make setting up this invitation a breeze!

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Photo credit: Liza D

Member Liza D. created this pretend post office play in her space using our Post Office Dramatic Play Set. 
​Liza complimented this pack with a variety of props to add to the post office play fun!

Member Erica P. created this dramatic play invitation using our Post Office Dramatic Play set, her use of recycled shipping boxes was a great touch!

Photo Credit Erica P

Mail Truck

Make your own post office truck. Visit your local appliance store for a large box, and allow the children to decorate it to look like a mail truck.
We used a paper plate for a steering wheel, blue paper for the side and a mailbox sign from the bunting in our Post Office Dramatic Play pack for the side. 

Post Office Dress-UP

Supply a variety of dress-up clothes for children to dress-up like a mail carrier. 

Post Office Small World Play

Add Post Office Trucks, Play Houses, Streets, and Mail Carrier Toys
to your Construction Space this week.

This Jolly Postman small world play space was created by Amanda Strachan.

Build with Boxes

Put those left over shipping boxes to good use. Allow your students to use them to create their own structures. Simply tape them using packing tape. You can stuff some with newspaper to create weighted boxes which are also great for building gross motor skills.

Post Office Stamp and Envelope Letter Matching*

Invite your preschoolers to practice letter identification and matching with this set from my Post Office Activity Pack

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Stock your Writing Center*

Add some fun square stickers, lined paper and envelopes to your writing center this week to encourage children to write letters. Encourage them to write a letter or draw a picture to send to someone special. Our Post Office Dramatic Play pack includes several printables perfect for your writing space. 

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 Learn New Vocabulary

Create a wall of post office words!
​Teacher tip: use the word wall cards in the post office dramatic play pack!

Word Wall Cards and Signs from our Post Office Dramatic Play Pack

Practice Mailing Letters

Write some letters to family or friends, then take a trip to the mailbox to mail your letters.

My Letter is Color Rhyme 

Using different colored envelopes recite the rhyme "My letter is blue, My letter is blue, I drop it in the mailbox to send to ____ "and have them say a person.

Postal Service Song

Educate preschoolers on the behind the scenes job of a postal service worker with this fun and engaging song.

Write a Letter using Stencils

Offer stencils for children to use to write letters to people. This is great for letter recognition, fine motor development, and letter formation. 

Delivering Your Mail: A Book about Mail Carriers by Ann Owen and Eric Thomas*
A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
With Love, Little Red Hen by Alma Flor Ada and Leslie Tryon
It Came in the Mail by Ben Clanton and Ben Clanton
Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James

Mail Carrier Roll and Count*

Preschoolers can practice number identification, counting and basic addition with this fun roll and count game!
Find it here

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Mailbox Number Match

Practice number recognition with this number matching activity from our post office activity pack.

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Sort Junk Mail by Size*

Put junk mail to good use by using it in your learning activities!
Collect junk mail over a period of time leading up to this theme.
Invite preschoolers to sort the mail by size. Children can also see what letters, words, or numbers they can identify.
When you're done shred it up to use in a sensory bin.

Weigh and Sort Mail

Put that junk mail to use with this easy to set up invitation to weigh and sort mail! We have more details and tips for this activity on our blog

Try this!

Envelope Card Match

Gather old greeting cards, and envelopes. Have your student practice matching each card to it's correct sized envelope.  As your clients if they have any to donate.

Shredded Paper Sensory Bin

Create a sensory bin from shredded paper. Add in the colorful stamps from the stamp color matching activity from the Post Office Activity Pack.
As children dig through the paper and find the stamps they can match them up to the correct envelope.

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Conveyor Belt

Watch a video about how conveyor belts work then provide your students with materials to build their own conveyor belt to transport miniature packages.

Post Office Pre-Writing

Post Office Pre-Writing Page from our Post Office Activity Pack.

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Package Relay Race*

Set up a relay race where children act out the actions of a postal worker. Fill the boxes with different objects to make some heavy (but safe to lift) and others light to get children talking about weight as well.
Get these station signs for this activity in our Post Office Activity Pack

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Weighted Boxes

Fill boxes with a variety of materials. Sort the boxes by weight (from lightest to heaviest, or heaviest to lightest)

Junk Mail Scissor Practice

Save your junk mail, and have your students practice cutting it for a great fine motor workout.

More:
Mail Tray from My Montessori Journey
13 Things you never thought you could mail from Kids Activities Blog

Take a Field Trip to the Post Office

Write a letter to someone special and then take a trip to the post office to mail it. If a field trip doesn't work for you ask your mail carrier to come by to pick up the letter.
Children might also enjoy mailing a letter home to themselves and getting it in the mail in a few days.

Learn more about your local mail carrier*

If possible take some time to visit with a mail carrier at the post office or along their route. Learn more about what they do in this video. Watch the Video: A Day in the Life of a Mail Carrier

Take a Look at Stamps Around the World

Use the internet to research what stamps look like in other countries.
Do this along with the children by bookmarking sites ahead of time or print out some examples for them to look at.

Connect with a Pen Pal

Send a letter to someone who lives in a different state or country than you! Learn about different things they like to do for fun! How are you alike, and how are you different?

Set up Student Mailboxes

If you don't already have them consider setting up student mailboxes all year round. Little mailboxes are a great way for preschoolers to learn to organize their papers. Motivate your preschoolers to check their mailboxes by slipping these themed Positive Student Notes in their boxes.

A Tisket A Tasket

Sing and act out this fun classic!
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