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Themes
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ABC and Letter of the Week Preschool Activities, Crafts, Lessons, Games, and Printables
The goal is to acquaint preschool children with the letters of the alphabet through various fun learning activities involving all of their senses. We have developed an extensive array of preschool resources for each letter of the alphabet. Our preschool ABC materials are based on the following teaching strategies:
Name of the letter
Shape of the letter—the way the letter looks
Sound the letter makes
Printing of the letter—method of producing the letter
Words associated with the letter
Way the letter looks within a word
Visual features of learned letter
Free Letter of the Week Activities, Crafts, Games, and Printables
Apple Annie
Puppet Crafts
Letter A Tracing—
Prewriting Skills
Letter A
Flash Cards
Letter A
Crafts and Activities
Letter A
Posters
Letter A—Ants
Story Booklet
A for Apple Picking
Folder Game
Letter A
Worksheets and Printables
Letter A
Booklets to Color
Letter A
Writing Worksheets
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Free ABC and Letter of the Week Activities and Printables
Letter “A” Activities
Apple Annie—Letter A. Explain the sound of short “a” as in the beginning sound of Apple Annie's name. Tell the story about Apple Annie using as many words as possible that start with the short sound of the letter A.
Letter “Aa” Poster—Create a large apple shape out of red craft paper. Cut and glue pictures starting with the letter “A” on it.
Apples—Put an apple inside a paper bag and have children reach in and touch it without looking. Let them cover their eyes and smell inside the bag. Ask children to guess what is in the bag. Talk about where we get apples from. Talk to children about how apple trees grow from seeds and apples grow on the apple trees. Show them some seeds from the inside of an apple.
Apple Arts and Crafts—Make an apple craft or a necklace from Apple Jacks cereals. Make an apple tree art.
Math—Apple Seed Counting/Seed Estimation—Have children guess how many seeds are inside an apple. Then have them count the seeds.
Apple Graphing—Eat red, yellow, and green apples and graph your favorite.
Apple Sorting—Provide printouts of apples in a variety of colors and shapes. Have children sort the apples by colors and shapes.
Social Studies—Learn about Johnny Appleseed.
Aluminum Foil—Make different three-dimensional shapes out of aluminum foil. Let children touch and feel the shapes and have them try to guess the shape with closed eyes. Discuss the letter “A” shape. Form the letter “A” with the aluminum foil. Have children copy it. For the sensory table, provide aluminum foil sheets for children to make sculptures.
Airplanes—Have children pretend to be airplanes and move around with arms extended. Call out directions as children "fly," and then "land." Hold up color name flashcards or alphabet flashcards and only children with that particular color or whose name begins with that letter can “fly." Play some music and have children fly around like airplanes. Tell them to land on the letter “A” taped to the floor when the music stops.
Writing Letters—Use letter “A” airplane pre-writing skill worksheet to practice the letter “A” shape.
Craft—Paper roll airplane.
Free letter of the week printables
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Words that Start with A
For words that start with A
Let's all shout, "Hurray!"
Apple, ant, and alligator,
Airplane and ape,
I'll see you later.
The Anthill
Once I saw an anthill
With no ants about;
So I said, "Dear little ants
Won't you please come out?"
Then as if the little ants
Had heard my call,
One, two, three, four, five came out,
And that was all.
Ants—Set up an ant farm. Talk about the queen ant and the worker ants and their jobs. Observe and draw pictures of their observations. Put plastic ants in sand table. Use the letter “A” maze worksheet.
Art—Make anthill with thumbprint ants.
Craft—Create an egg carton ant.
Math—Use raisins as ants and have children count them before eating them.
Gross Motor Skills—Tape a giant letter A on the floor or outside area. Have children crawl around on the letter and pretend to be ants.
Movement—Have an ant parade. Let children carry objects that start with the letter “A”.
Emergent Reader—Read the Ants, Ants, Everywhere booklet.
Astronaut—Learn about the job of an astronaut.
Alligator—Talk about alligators and where they live.
Art—Directed drawing artwork. Put the letter A on its side and add teeth and an eye to make an alligator.
Animals—Act out different animals.
Math—Use animal crackers for simple additions.
Craft—Make animal paper bag puppets.
