Days of the Week Activities (Teaching Days of the Week)

Looking for some awesome days of the week activities? Here are some of our favorite ways to teach days of the week and sequencing to younger kids.

Teaching your little ones the days of the week can feel tricky at first, but it doesn’t have to be! Kids learn best through repetition that’s fun, hands-on, and easy to fit into everyday life. By mixing printables, songs, movement, and simple games, you can turn this skill into something they’ll love to practice.

Here are my favorite days of the week activities for preschoolers and kindergartners—perfect for home or the classroom.

📅 Why Teach the Days of the Week Early?

Learning the days of the week helps kids:

• Understand time order and sequencing
• Recognize patterns in their daily routines
• Strengthen reading and spelling skills
• Make connections to calendar use and planning

🖨️ Printable Days of the Week Activities

Printable days of the week worksheets and activities are a simple, ready to use way to help kids visually recognize, spell, and understand the order of the days. They give children hands on practice with sequencing while building early literacy skills, making them perfect for reinforcing concepts at home, in the classroom, or during homeschool lessons.

Days of the Week Tracing Worksheet – Large dotted letters guide them through neat handwriting practice, with extra blank lines for writing on their own.

Days of the Week Cut and Paste Activity – Kids cut out the days and glue them in the right order. Comes in color and black-and-white so they can color it themselves.

Days of the Week Activity Sheets – Seven themed pages with tracing, coloring, missing vowels, and cut-and-paste letters.

Days of the Week Worksheets – One place to grab every days of the week printable I’ve made so you can mix and match.

🎯 Hands-On Days of the Week Activities (No Printables Required)

These activities are quick, simple, and use what you already have:

Days of the Week Song & Dance

Pick a tune you both know and sing the days in order. Clap, stomp, or make a motion for each day to keep it fun.

Here’s one great for younger kids:

If this one feels too “babyish” for your kids then heres a fun one to the Adams family theme song.

Calendar Time

Each morning, point to “today,” “yesterday,” and “tomorrow” on your wall calendar. Say them together, and have your child repeat them back.

You can use a regular calendar or find some great perpetual calendars. We have a perpetual calendar we love and use it every morning when starting our day. It’s great for learning days of the week, month and seasons.

Here’s a cool printable one that we use and have a lot of fun with.

Days of the Week Hopscotch

Write the days on the ground with chalk or on paper indoors and tape it to the ground. Hop through them in order, then try hopping backward.

Daily Jobs Chart

Give each day a small job (like watering plants on Monday or setting the table on Tuesday). Review the chart every morning so they know what’s coming.

Days of the Week Crafts

We have a fun days of the week caterpillar craft that’s perfect for younger kids learning the days of the week. Can help with motor skills and sequencing.

Days Card Mix-Up

Write each day on an index card. Shuffle them, then have your child put them back in order. Ask questions like “Which one is yesterday?” to extend the game.

Story Sequencing

Read a short story that mentions certain days. Pause to ask, “What comes next?” or “Which day did they go to the park?”

✏️ Days of the Week Activities for Kindergarten

Kindergarten kids are ready for more structured but still simple activities:

Word Scramble – Use our Days of the Week Word Scramble for a fun spelling puzzle. At this age it’s best to do it with them as it may be too hard on their own.

Arrange the Days – Give them cards with the days and have them arrange them in order. Add a timer for a fun challenge.

Quick Questions – Sprinkle in questions throughout the day, like “If today is Wednesday, what’s tomorrow?”

Point & Find – Call out an event and have them find the day on our Days of the Week Chart.

Match & Pair – Match a day card to an event picture card (like matching Saturday to a soccer ball for soccer practice).

Act the Day – Pretend to do something that happens that day, like packing a backpack for Monday or making pancakes for Sunday.

🎨 Days of the Week Activities for Preschool

Preschoolers thrive with short, repetitive, and playful activities. These also build memory, language, and sequencing skills:

Sing a Days of the Week Song – Sing daily and point to each day on a chart as you go. Repetition and rhythm help develop memory and language skills, and the pointing builds visual recognition.

Picture Schedule – Show a simple daily picture schedule with a visual for each day. Visual cues help children connect abstract day names to concrete events, supporting comprehension.

Letter Hunt – Hide letter tiles for the day’s name around the room and have them find and arrange them. This builds letter recognition, spelling awareness, and problem-solving skills.

Pass the Day – Pass a day card around while chanting the days in order. The person holding the card says the next day out loud. This supports turn-taking, listening skills, and verbal sequencing.

💡 Tips for Making the Days of the Week Stick

• Review a little bit every day.
• Use sight, sound, and movement together.
• Connect days to real-life routines.
• Change up the activities to keep it fun.

Teaching the days of the week doesn’t have to be complicated or time-consuming. With easy printables, simple games, and a little daily review, your kids will pick it up before you know it.