Your kids are going to dig these construction books for toddlers! Board books are perfect for toddlers who love trucks and dirt.
If your kid love construction vehicles, they’re going to love these books for toddlers that feature tractors, trucks, dirt, and more.
These construction themed board books are great for toddlers and preschoolers. Their sturdy pages will stand up to make read-throughs with your little ones.
Construction Books for Toddlers
Below, I’ve featured just a handful of board books that will teach your little ones more about construction and construction vehicles.
You should be able to find them at your local library or bookstore. If you can’t find them locally, you can click each image cover to purchase them on Amazon.
Construction
There’s lots of noise and excitement involved in building a library! Preschoolers will clamor to take a closer look.
Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems—each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance to a snowplow—introduce young children to their favorite trucks face-to-face. Cheerful illustrations show each one in action, digging (or dozing, or dumping) away.
Bzz, bzz, bzzrt! Peek and explore construction sites in this lively, interactive Peek-a-Flap! Little ones will love exploring every construction-themed page filled with fun facts, new vocabulary words, and surprises found under sturdy lift-a-flaps while learning all about the tools and trucks that help build roads, houses, and skyscrapers!
From clearing a pathway (screek!) to rolling the tar (squelch!) to sweeping up at the end (swish!), Roadwork is sure to delight young truck-lovers with its rambunctious rhymes and noisy fun.
Lightly abridged and revised from the original text, this playful board book includes a sound bar with five fun sounds—vroom, yay, glug, beep, yawn—that lend interactive fun to the setting of the hit picture book.
Get ready for a ride through the alphabet at a busy construction site. There’s a big yellow Bulldozer, a tall shiny Crane, and a rusty red Dump truck—and the construction crew is hard at work. But what are they building?
Excavator’s 123: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
– Little construction fans will love watching Excavator and Dump Truck dig ONE foundation, lift THREE loads of sand, set FIVE pipes, and more until the project is done.
Toddlers can learn all about the busy world of a construction site, with easy-to-understand facts about all the huge, noisy machines that captivate little ones’ imaginations.
For little ones who enjoy big noisy vehicles like tankers and fire engines or construction vehicles like excavators and dump trucks. Help expand your toddler’s vocabulary with this attractive tabbed board book.
Follow busy workers and noisy machines, including a dump truck, cement truck, excavator and more, as they build a brand-new school in this oversized board book.
Little builders will love putting on their hard hats and heading to work alongside huge dump trucks, gigantic bulldozers, and powerful ditch-diggers. Full of colorful vehicles and friendly faces from Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and What Do People Do All Day?, construction work has never been so much fun!
Trucks have never looked this adorable. The different vehicles have something shiny to catch the eye, or a cut-out texture designed to invite curiosity in babies and toddlers to stimulate their senses and aid learning.
Which of these books about construction will you read first?
Teaching Resources
Children at work! There are so many ways to play with this construction site mini playdough set! Make tracks in the homemade play dough. Construct roads and lay pipes. Watch them bring the construction site to life!
Get kids moving when you print these free construction movement cards and . These are perfect for helping them get active.
Tara is the brains behind Homeschool Preschool, where her journey from preschool and public school teacher to homeschooling mom of three fuels her passion for early childhood education. With a blend of expertise and firsthand experience, Tara’s writings offer practical tips and engaging resources to support families in creating meaningful learning adventures at home.
