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8 Crafts for Letter V

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Look here for eight crafts for letter V!

I shared this post years ago, when my children were young. I love looking back at the fun things we did to fill our days as I taught my kids the alphabet! I highly recommend doing sensory, art, and fine motor activities with your preschooler simply because it’s fun. These activities also provide opportunities to develop oral language and other early literacy skills. However, please note that research tells us that direct instruction in letters and sounds is the most efficient way to teach and learn the alphabet. Find our full alphabet curriculum here.

8 Crafts for Letter V

Mixed Media Volcanoes

letter V mixed media volcanoes (mostly cut and paste)

I am starting with my favorite craft, which I found at Cindy DeRosier: My Creative Life. I love it because not only does it reinforce the letter, but it is truly an art project which allowed the kids to bring their own creativity and style. First they painted the background with watercolors. The next day they added their volcanoes (I cut them for my Two and Four). Then they added tissue paper and smoke. Check out Cindy’s blog for more about this craft, and be sure to check out her Children’s Crafts from A-Z — great stuff!

Handprint Vulture 

letter V handprint vulture

I never would have guessed there could be a cute vulture craft, but Melissa over at Creativity Takes Flight has a great one! As you can see, the kids painted the branch, used their handprints for the vultures’ bodies, added a thumb print head (and swirled the paint a bit — they have tiny thumbs!). The next day they added the beak and eye. I love these!

V is for Vase

letter V cut and paste vase

While the older kids were having fun together, my Two came into the kitchen and told me he wanted to do a craft. So he glued this giant letter V to his paper and used a crayon to draw the stems. (His green marker was the preferred choice, but earlier this week it fell victim to my One, who bites the tips off stray markers. Ugh.) We used a paper punch to make the flowers. Easy!

Volcano V’s 

letter V cut and paste volcano

My One (15 months) did this craft sitting on my lap. I gave him a piece of brown paper and a brown marker, and he went to town drawing and dotting the paper. The marker went close to his mouth a few times — that’s why this was an on-Mommy’s-lap craft! I cut out the volcano, applied the glue, and helped him stick it down. He loved patting down the V’s that I gave him. The point of this craft was not to teach my One the letter V. At this point I’m just trying to get him to listen to board books without tossing them! But it was fun to give him some one-on-one time, and he loves doing crafts with me. I saw this idea at The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.

V is for Vegetable Collage

letter V cut and paste vegetable collage

Here’s a super easy craft for letter V. Get out your grocery store ads and work with your little one to make a vegetable collage on a letter V.

V on a Vine

letter V cut and paste vine

Here’s a  simple craft from Preschool Playbook. You just need some green yarn and some construction paper. My boys did their own leaf cutting; I supplied the letter V’s.

Vegetable Printing

letter V vegetable printing

My Two used peppers and a potato to make this vegetable print. Broccoli and cauliflower work really well, too!

Vacuum the V’s

letter V cut and paste vacuums

I never know which craft my kids will love the most, and I was really surprised when my Four and Six had so much fun with this one. Designing original crafts is not my strong suit, but I did come up with this one myself.

I know, it’s a little goofy. I mean, really – a vacuum craft? But this is the letter V, people. There isn’t much to choose from. Anyway, you can see that the vacuums had V’s for their mouths and were vacuuming up the V’s off the floor. My kids just loved drawing the faces on their machines. Later they cut around the edges and pretended to vacuum the floor. Fun stuff.

 

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22 Comments

  1. Alicia

    July 15, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    I clicked on the link for W arts and crafts and it took me to V, but I can’t find the W crafts via the search box. Can you help me? Thanks!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      July 17, 2016 at 5:04 pm

      Hi Alicia! Sorry about that. You can find the W crafts here: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/crafts-for-letter-w/

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  2. ERIKA

    December 10, 2014 at 9:09 am

    Great Ideas, THX!

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  3. Jane Barth

    March 18, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    Great Ideas for a difficult letter….We painted with veggies today and had a ball! I gave them a 12×18 piece of brown construction paper folded & cut at the top with zigzag & a little notch to look like a brown grocery bag. We painted with peppers, broccoli, potatoes, carrots, celery & green beans. (I’d be glad to share a pic) We’ll be making the vacuums this week and your volcanos, too. Thanks for the ideas.

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    • Anna Geiger

      March 24, 2014 at 10:04 am

      I love that craft idea, Jane! Putting it on a notched paper bag is an awesome idea. Thanks for sharing that!

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  4. Joye

    November 17, 2013 at 2:45 pm

    Fun ideas! Thanks for sharing!

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    • Anna Geiger

      November 23, 2013 at 6:39 pm

      You’re welcome ,Joye! Thanks for stopping by!

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  5. Kristen B

    May 1, 2013 at 6:12 am

    I LOVE the letter of the week idea! I am going to start doing that with my son.

    I would love it if you would come link up on our Artsy Play Wednesday kids’ craft linky.

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    • annageig

      May 5, 2013 at 1:14 pm

      Thanks so much for the invite, Kristen!

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  6. Shaunna @ Fantastic Fun and Learning

    April 28, 2013 at 6:22 am

    Great collection of V crafts! Our V theme was vegetables, and we had fun with some the same vegetable projects…vegetable printing was a collective favorite around here. I love your V Volcano…super cute!

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    • annageig

      May 5, 2013 at 1:13 pm

      Thanks so much for checking it out, Shaunna!

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  7. Cindy deRosier

    April 27, 2013 at 12:55 pm

    I love seeing your interpretation of my volcano project! Your kids did a beautiful job. But where’s yours? 😉

    Your vacuum cleaners are ADORABLE. What a fun idea!

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    • annageig

      May 5, 2013 at 1:13 pm

      Sorry I’m a little behind, Cindy — thanks so much for stopping by! My pinning finger got very tired as I looked through your ABC’s of children’s crafts. Such great stuff!

      I don’t make my own crafts because I am corralling my 15 month old, who isn’t quite ready for most of our crafts.

      Is that a good enough excuse? 🙂

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      • Cindy deRosier

        May 5, 2013 at 2:29 pm

        Yes, that is an excellent excuse. 🙂

        Reply to this comment

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