Kickstart the Day: Free Morning Menu Printables for Kindergarten

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My kids almost always beat me downstairs for breakfast in the morning. It’s not that I don’t want to get up early in the morning. I would love to be up and have already exercised, showered, ready for the day, and breakfast on the table. But for some reason I just can’t do it. Probably the fact that I don’t go to bed until 11:30 every night. But that is beside the point. My kids are so HUNGRY when I get downstairs at 7:30 that I often lose track of how many times they have told me before I get the food on the table. And now that I have started homeschool with my oldest I realize that there isn’t enough time in the day for me to teach him all of the things I want to.

I have been seeing these morning menus all over social media. If you don’t know what a morning menu is, I would try to describe it but it will be easier just to show you!

So you print these pages and slide them into a menu cover!

A morning menu is a little booklet (or binder) filled with simple, engaging activities for your kids to work on while you’re still trying to wake up in the morning. This could look like:

• Calendar practice
• Weather tracking
• Letter and number review
• Phone number and address practice
• Fun puzzles or mazes

The Benefits of Morning Menus

1. They Buy You 15–20 Minutes of Morning Peace
Your kids are busy, focused, and not asking you for a breakfast yet.

2. They Create a Calm Start
Your day starts with a familiar routine. Kids know exactly what to do, and you’re not scrambling to print worksheets at 7:58 a.m.

3. They Sneak In Extra Learning
You can sneak in skills without kids realizing it—sight words, skip counting, seasonal facts, whatever it is you are working on! What I have created is just a start. As I get more worksheets and activities up on the blog, there will be many that you can print and slide in the menu as well!

4. They Work for Multiple Ages
Whether you have a preschooler tracing letters or a second grader working on word problems, morning menus are easy to customize.

Switch them up monthly to keep kids interested (think seasonal themes or rotating skills). They don’t want to do the same thing every week. And if your kids are young, it might feel like a huge task to do all of the pages. So maybe tell them just to do the ones they want to for the first few days of the month. See how it goes before you expect them to finish the whole booklet in one morning.

Did I mention? I’ve got a set of Free Morning Menu Printables for Kindergarteners ready for you to download. Because if there’s one thing moms love more than no one talking in the morning…it’s some free stuff.

There are 3 Morning Menu Starter items for download above. The covers aren’t necessary but they do take the presentation up a notch! And they are fun because they are seasonal. The other two downloads are calendar work and weather/feelings/address/phone practice.

Hope your kids learn some things and that you can have a more quiet morning than normal. May the odds be ever in your favor.