My Truck Is Stuck Activities

If your kids love trucks, they’ll just love these My Truck Is Stuck activities to go with the picture book My Truck Is Stuck! by Kevin Lewis. This silly, sing-song story is perfect for preschool and kindergarten—especially for practicing rhyming, listening comprehension, and story sequencing. Below you’ll find easy, print-and-go book activities (plus a few hands-on truck ideas) to help you turn one read-aloud into a simple activity for your homeschool.

When my oldest was a toddler, we read this particular book over and over again. It was one of the favorites that we memorized due to frequency.

Now, I have the joy of re-reading this book over (and over and over) with my current toddler. What a joy!

My Truck Is Stuck Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten

My Truck Is Stuck! is a fun, rhyming picture book about a dump truck that needs help out of a sticky situation. If you’re planning a truck or transportation theme for your young learners, you must include this book! We have such great memories of this one.

Book: My Truck is Stuck!

Author: Kevin Lewis

Illustrator: Daniel Kirk

At a Glance

Recommended Grades: Preschool & Kindergarten
Skills Practiced: Rhyming, phonological awareness, listening comprehension, story sequencing
Prep: Print and go (plus a few optional hands-on ideas)
Time Needed: 20–30 minutes
Great For: Truck theme, transportation unit, circle time, or a quick literacy lesson

If you’re looking for an easy way to turn a favorite picture book into purposeful learning time, these simple My Truck is Struck activities make it quick and stress-free for you to quickly plan.

My Truck Is Stuck activities for preschool and kindergarten

Easy My Truck Is Stuck Activities

If you want to extend this book just a bit, here are a few My Truck is Stuck activities that you and your children will enjoy.

🛻 Download a set of Transportation Coloring Pages.

🛻 Have a grand time matching Transportation Puzzle Cards for Preschoolers!

🛻 Set up alphabet rocks to go with your dump truck.

🛻 Spend some time making a dump truck craft. You could even glue real sand in the truck bed! So fun.

🛻 Download a whole packet of Dump Truck printables!

🛻 Practice phonics and math with this set of Transportation Worksheets for Kindergarten and 1st Grade. There are a few fun pages mixed in also.

🛻 And of course, get all of the dump trucks into the sand box and see what your trucks can haul: sand, dirt, rocks, leaves, bugs, or acorns.

About the Book: My Truck Is Stuck!

My Truck is Stuck! is a delightful book about a dump truck that “loses” it’s load of bones. The truck gets stuck in a hole and needs a lot of might to get out of its predicament.

My Truck is Stuck! has a fun sing-songy rhythm, and the words just roll off the tongue. The story line is humorous, which only adds to the charm and appeal of this book!

Dump truck coming down the road.

Dump truck hauling a great big load.

Round and round the wheels they go.

Round and round into a … hole!

Rotten luck. Can’t go!

My truck is stuck!

Because of the strong rhyming pattern, this book is wonderful for:

hearing and predicting rhymes
building phonological awareness
retelling a story in sequence
vocabulary practice with vehicles and action words

If you don’t already have a copy, you can find My Truck Is Stuck! here on Amazon. (affiliate link)

➡️ Homeschool Mom Tip: I like to keep a few toy trucks or construction vehicles nearby while we read my children can act out the story afterward. They love this part!

A couple of my girls had a harder time with learning to read, and both had difficulty with rhyming words. Now, I realize how important learning to rhyme and predict rhyming text is to pre-reading skills. Books like this are just perfect for practicing this skill.

More Truck and Transportation Printables

Planning a truck or transportation theme this week? I have several low-prep printables that pair perfectly with My Truck Is Stuck! and make it easy to extend your learning without extra planning.