The Nurturing Nest
Family Child Care & Preschool
April 2025 Calendar





 
The following is our skill-based activity calendar for the month of April. Activities are developmentally appropriate, research-based and aligned with state standards. We cover the following skill-based activities: Circle Time Activity, Language & Literacy, Math & Reasoning, Creative Arts and Music & Movement.


  
Day 1

Homes

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Beehive Rhyme 
  • Language/Literacy: Who Lives in the Bee Nest? 
  • Math and Reasoning: Hexagon Designs 
  • Creative Arts: Beehive Stamping 
  • Music and Movement: Bee Home 
Day 2

Food

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Helping with Hexagons 
  • Language/Literacy: Busy Bees 
  • Math and Reasoning: Fill the Honeycomb
  • Creative Arts: How Many Bees in the Hive? 
  • Music and Movement: Sweet Honey 
Day 3

Babies

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Name Your Baby Bee 
  • Language/Literacy: My Little Bee Journal 
  • Math and Reasoning: Counting Bee Eggs 
  • Creative Arts: Queen Bee Headband 
  • Music and Movement: Follow the Queen
Day 4

Work

 
  • Circle Time Activity: A Strong Hive 
  • Language/Literacy: Little Letter Book: Kk
  • Math and Reasoning: Bee Hunt 
  • Creative Arts: Drone Bees
  • Music and Movement: Working Bees
Day 5

Safety

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Protecting the Hive 
  • Language/Literacy: Safe Homes 
  • Math and Reasoning: Bee Careful!
  • Creative Arts: Bee Puppet
  • Music and Movement: Safe Bees
Day 6

Honey Bee

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Beekeepers 
  • Language/Literacy: Wax Letters
  • Math and Reasoning: Pollinate the Flowers
  • Creative Arts: Nectar Painting 
  • Music and Movement: Sticky Honey
Day 7

Bumble Bee

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Baby Bumble Bee 
  • Language/Literacy: Follow the Bees 
  • Math and Reasoning: Stinging Insects Matching Game 
  • Creative Arts: Little Letter Book: Mm 
  • Music and Movement: Shaking Bee Parts 
Day 8

Carpenter Bee

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Building a Tunnel 
  • Language/Literacy: Wooden Letters 
  • Math and Reasoning: Egg in a Hole 
  • Creative Arts: Bee Puzzle 
  • Music and Movement: Dancing Workers
Day 9

Yellow Jacket

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Yellow Jackets Like to Sting 
  • Language/Literacy: Special Bees 
  • Math and Reasoning: Who Stole the Honey? 
  • Creative Arts: Yellow Jackets 
  • Music and Movement: Bee Rhythms
Day 10

Hornet

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Building a Nest 
  • Language/Literacy: Stinging Letters
  • Math and Reasoning: Counting Hornets 
  • Creative Arts: Listen & Draw 
  • Music and Movement: Wasp Attack
Day 11

Egg

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Community of Eggs
  • Language/Literacy: Open Your Egg 
  • Math and Reasoning: Hidden Eggs 
  • Creative Arts: Eggs on a Leaf 
  • Music and Movement: Life Cycle Dance
Day 12

Caterpillar

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Move Like a Caterpillar
  • Language/Literacy: Eating Through Letters 
  • Math and Reasoning: Longest Caterpillar 
  • Creative Arts: Caterpillar Sculpture 
  • Music and Movement: Munching Machine 
Day 13

Chrysalis

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Wrapping Friends 
  • Language/Literacy: Drawing the Life Cycle 
  • Math and Reasoning: Life Cycle Patterns 
  • Creative Arts: Little Letter Book: Xx 
  • Music and Movement: Changed 
Day 14

Butterfly

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Community Butterfly 
  • Language/Literacy: Fly to Letters 
  • Math and Reasoning: Butterfly Symmetry
  • Creative Arts: Life Cycle Plate 
  • Music and Movement: Mirror Changes
Day 15

Moth

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Proboscis Challenge 
  • Language/Literacy: Buzzing Beats 
  • Math and Reasoning: Puzzles in Nature 
  • Creative Arts: Moth Hole Collage 
  • Music and Movement: Moth Food
Day 16

Monarch

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Moving Like Monarchs 
  • Language/Literacy: Butter + Fly = Butterfly!
  • Math and Reasoning: Butterfly Math 
  • Creative Arts: Migrating Butterfly 
  • Music and Movement: Butterfly Wings
Day 17

Swallowtail

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Hiding Swallowtails 
  • Language/Literacy: Would You Rather? 
  • Math and Reasoning: Scary Eyes 
  • Creative Arts: Butterfly Collage
  • Music and Movement: Butterfly Stages
Day 18

Blue Morpho

 
  • Circle Time Activity: A Blue Morpho
  • Language/Literacy: Letters in the Rainforest 
  • Math and Reasoning: Pollinator Match 
  • Creative Arts: Butterfly Postcard 
  • Music and Movement: Dancing Nectar
Day 19

Peacock Butterfly

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Be Brave 
  • Language/Literacy: Butterfly Words
  • Math and Reasoning: Butterfly Hunt 
  • Creative Arts: Butterfly Drip Dye 
  • Music and Movement: Swinging Wings
Day 20

Butterfly House

 
  • Circle Time Activity: Butterfly House Tickets 
  • Language/Literacy: Save the Butterflies 
  • Math and Reasoning: Be a Butterfly 
  • Creative Arts: My Portfolio 
  • Music and Movement: Butterfly  Duet



  



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