Kindergarten Readiness Checklist, Activities, Worksheets for Back To School ABCs

This ABC’s to Kindergarten Readiness Checklist and Activities pack includes 26 engaging, printable activities designed to help incoming kindergarten students build confidence and practice important school readiness skills before the first day of school.

This comprehensive kindergarten readiness packet helps students strengthen foundational academic, social-emotional, and independence skills in a fun and developmentally appropriate way.

Students will practice important kindergarten readiness skills while building excitement and confidence for starting school!

What’s included in my Kindergarten Readiness Checklist:

• Alphabet Handwriting Practice: Students will trace uppercase and lowercase letters to build letter formation and handwriting skills.
• Beginning Sounds Activity: Students will identify beginning letter sounds using picture-supported phonics practice.
• Coloring & Fine Motor Activities: Includes coloring pages, tracing lines, cutting practice, gluing activities, and crayon color-by-code worksheets to strengthen fine motor development.
• Draw a Self-Portrait Page: Students will draw themselves and practice writing their names.
• Expressing Feelings Activity: Students will identify emotions and build social-emotional awareness.
• Gross Motor Skills Checklist: Students and families can practice important gross motor movements and physical development skills.
• “Ready for Kindergarten” Hat Craft: Students will create and wear their own kindergarten readiness hat.
• •ndependence Skills Checklist: Helps families practice everyday life skills such as packing backpacks, cleaning up, washing hands, and following directions.
• Jobs at Home Activity: Encourages responsibility and independence through simple household tasks.
• Growth Mindset Activity: Students will sort statements that show perseverance and a positive mindset.
• Listening Skills Activity: Students will follow multi-step directions to complete a classroom scene.
• Matching & Shapes Activity: Students will cut and paste objects under matching shapes.
• Number Formation Practice: Students will trace and practice numbers 0–10.
• Oral Language Activities: Includes conversation prompts and an oral presentation rubric to support speaking and listening skills.
• Patterns Activity: Students will identify and complete patterns.
• Questions & Comprehension Activity: Read-aloud story with comprehension questions included.
• Rhyming & Syllables Activities: Students will practice foundational phonological awareness skills.
• Tools vs. Toys Sort: Students will sort classroom tools and toys through a cut-and-paste activity.
• Using the Restroom Sequencing Activity: Students will sequence the steps for using the bathroom independently at school.
• Daily Affirmations Page: Encourages confidence, kindness, perseverance, and positive self-talk.
• Find the Difference Activity: Students will strengthen visual discrimination skills.
• “Yes, I Can!” Kindergarten Goals Page: Students will color goals they hope to achieve in kindergarten.
• “Zip It Up!” Backpack & School Expectations Activity: Students will identify correct ways to pack, unpack, and care for school belongings.

Perfect for summer learning, kindergarten readiness, back-to-school prep, preschool review, transitional kindergarten, homeschool, or parent practice at home!

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