Discover Robot Week with the Virtual Book Club for Kids! Explore The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown through hands-on robot crafts, STEM activities, songs, and book-inspired learning fun for preschoolers and early elementary kids.
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The Wild Robot On The Island Activities
This week’s featured story, The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown, invites children to imagine what happens when technology meets nature — and a robot learns to survive, explore, and connect with the world around her.
The Wild Robot on the Island by Peter Brown
Inspired by Roz’s incredible adventure, our Weekly Activity Planner is packed with hands-on robot fun for your child to learn, create, and play!
You’ll find STEM-inspired crafts and games, like printing with nuts and bolts, building a gliding robot, and designing your own foil robot art. Kids can also explore early literacy and math through playful ideas like robot alphabet games, a reading erase game, and a measurement tray challenge. Plus, enjoy a read-aloud video of the book, three catchy robot songs, and a curated list of the best robot books for kids to keep the learning going all week long.
Get ready to power up your imagination — it’s time to build, create, and discover with Robot Week!
You can listen to the Read Aloud of The Wild Robot on the Island here on youtube.
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Robot Songs for Preschoolers
The Robot Dance | Danny Go!
Dancing Robots Songs | The Learning Station
The Robot Song | Hopscotch
Learn the Alphabet with Sym the Robot! | DEVAR
Robot Week Plan for Preschoolers
Each week we provide a simple plan of activities for you and your preschoolers to do together. Although we don’t have a strict schedule the one shown below works really well if you are planning a full week.
If not you can always carry out the activities on a single day or across a couple.
The Wild Robot On the Island Weekly Planner
Explore your free Weekly Planner for our Robot Week theme! Each day features a fun, easy-to-set-up activity inspired by The Wild Robot on the Island, along with songs, read-alouds, and book suggestions your child will love. Whether your child is learning at home or in the classroom, this planner helps you bring science, creativity, and literacy together in one exciting robot-themed week of learning and play!
Robots Weekly Planner
This fun robot printmaking activity for kids uses old screws, nuts and bolts to make art! Kids will love experimenting with the different prints and patterns different sized and shaped nuts bolts and screws make when you dip them in paint and press them onto the paper.
You an also turn into sensory fun with this Decorating Robot Bag Activity or create a Robot Sensory Tray Writing Activity
These robot alphabet card games are a great way to practice letter recognition, letter sounds, sight words and more! The free printable robot cards make it very easy for you to practice these skills with your kids.
You can also build this Alphabet Robots Craft or have fun with chalk and body parts with the Erase a Robot Reading Activity.
Engage your child with this robot-themed measurement math tray — ready to print, perfect for math centers or distance learning, and built to reinforce hands-on measurement skills.
You may also enjoy this Robot Shape Painting Activity
In this robot craft and STEM activity, children will color a free printable robot and turn it into a gliding robot toy. This fun activity combines creativity with scientific thinking.
For more ideas try this Build a Robot STEM Activity.
Add a little more fun with this Robot Nuts and Bolts Trail Mix.
Make a Robot! A fun, low-prep kids’ craft combining foil, nuts and bolts and metallic paint—perfect for preschoolers to make creative wall art.
Our use your own recycled materials to build a Recycled Art Robot.
Robot Books for Preschoolers
- Robots, Robots Everywhere! by Sue Fliess
- Pete the Cat: Robo-Pete by James Dean
- Boy and Bot by Ame Dyckman
- Hello Robots! by Joan Holub
- Ten Little Robots by Mike Brownlow
- Little Robot by Ben Hatke
- Alphabot Adventures: A Robot ABC Book by Lauren Briére
- Help! My Robots Are Lost In The City! by Webber Books
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Robot Beep by Jeffrey Burton
- Robot’s First Snow by Billy Sharff
- RO-BO by Mariana Ruiz Johnson
- How to Code a Sandcastle by Josh Funk
Here’s our top picks of Robot Books for Kids on Amazon! Plus a few robot toys for learning this week too.
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