Story Visuals and Activities for

Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle

"Little Blue Truck" by Alice Schertle tells the story of a friendly blue truck who enjoys helping others and makes friends along the way. When a big dump truck gets stuck in the mud, the little blue truck and his animal friends come to the rescue, showing the importance of kindness and teamwork. The story highlights the value of friendship and the joy of working together.

Check out these activities to play and learn within this beautiful story. 

 

Vocabulary

Little Blue Truck has many levels of vocabulary, that grows with your child. For little ones, start with fun sounds and farm animals. 

For prek, kindergarten, and first grade students, delve into harder words. Start in isolation, and then look in context. Maybe make a scavenger hunt to find the words in the story. 

Play I Have Who Has with vocabulary form the story. 

 

Characters

Play with the fun characters in the story. Who changes? 

 

Play bingo with a focus on the different characters. For added fun, when you cover a character, say the sound they make!

 

Make stick puppets using the different characters. 

 

 

Retelling & Sequencing

Retell this story in your own words using character puppets or other visuals. 

Sequence story details

 

Sorting

Sort the picture cards. Are they a farm animal or transportation? 

 

 

Alphabet Knowledge

Can you name the beginning letter in each of the farm animals? Make a class book and color the animals. 

 

Auditory Discrimination

Play sound bytes of the different characters from the story., Students can mark the aniual or item that matches the sound they hear. 

Match the sound words with the character. 

 

Phonemic Awareness

Sort the picture cards by beginning sounds. 

Listen and imitate 2 sounds put together - /T/ + /R/. Color these words that start with TR. 

Here are other TR visuals: 

Match the Rhyming pairs. 

 

 

Spelling

Spell and write the farm animals. 

 

 

Writing

What was your favorite part of the story?

 

 

Fine Motor

Cut out characters from the story and use for retelling. Or, pin as a badge to act out the story. 

Make lacing cards using the characters. 

 

Math

Use vocabulary as you play with math concepts. 

 

Count each animal type and then all together. 

 

 

Science

Learn about farms. What machines are on the farm? What animals are on the farm?  What jobs are on the farm? 

Play farm games. 

   

 

Music

Sing Old MacDonald HAd A Farm

 

Make a mini book to sing along with Old MacDonald.  

 

 

Art

Lay out bulletin board paper. Pour brown paint on the paper to make a mud pile. Find toy trucks with big grippy tires and roll them through the mud / paint making tire tracks on the remaining parts of the paper. (You can also use piecec of paper to make tracks for the student to take home.) You can also walk plastic animals through the paint to make animal tracks too. 

 

Other Versions

Little Blue Truck is such a classic book! Now there are many other versions for different holidays and more fun! Try these visuals for related stories.