Amusement Park Activities for Kids
Try these amusement park activities for your kids to enjoy at home. You’ll find activities for 1-3 year olds, activities for 4-7 year old and activities for 8-11 year olds! If your children love theme parks then these ideas and activities will definitely inspire fun learning. Some of the activities link to useful blog posts, others, to resources on our website.
Amusement Park Themed Activities for Kids
In these 10 activities you’ll find a nice mix of subjects that are all related to amusement parks.
- Plan a day out at a theme park
- Research the history of theme park rides
- Draw a map of a theme park
- Make up a theme park sound story together!
- Design your own theme park
- Theme Park senses exploration
- Make top trumps of UK theme parks or rides
- Design and make your own theme park themed board game
- Make some theme park food!
- Plan how to visit all the theme parks in the UK
Amusement Park Writing Activities for Kids
Many people, children included, find writing to be tedious. It helps to write about things you like. These amusement park writing activities might be the perfect excuse to write:
- Create a poster advertising a theme park
- Write a concrete poem of a theme park ride
- Write a setting description of a theme park
- Write a newspaper article on the opening of a new ride
- Write exciting ride descriptions
- Write a story set at a theme park
- Write a fictional diary entry about a day at a theme park
- Create your own theme park brochure
- Make your own tickets
- Write a day in the life of a ride – get
someone to guess what kind of ride you are!
Amusement Park Crafts
Who doesn’t love a good craft? Check out this list of 10 activities to do at home.
- Make a rollercoaster paper sculpture
- Helter Skelter recycled craft
- Carousel recycled craft
- Do some caricature drawings
- Swinging chair ride recycled craft
- Make a candy floss picture with puffy paint
- Draw a theme park scene
- Make a cardboard box ticket stall
- Pirate ship recycled craft
- Rollercoaster recycled craft
Amusement Park STEM
Want to try a great STEM activity? Check out this list of 10 activities to do at home.
- Solve open ended ride queue problems
- Research ride statistics to make a trumps game
- Calculate the distance to theme parks from your house
- Build a ride and explore friction and terminal velocity
- Make your own mini theme park ride
- Design a theme park with a given perimeter/area
- Plan a day at a theme park- maximise your ride time!
- Make a miniature loop the loop ride
- Explore centripetal force
- Make your own mini slingshot ride
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