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8 Ways to Make the Letter E

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Check out our eight ways to make the letter E!

child placing gems into block letter E

First, I printed two large letter E’s, which you can make yourself or use mine: giant letter E.  Then my Two and Four filled their E’s with gems to reinforce the shape of the letter.

child placing buttons into block letter E

Next, they filled their E’s with buttons.

block letter E with craft sticks

We got out colorful craft sticks to form the letter E with lines.

letter E with craft sticks

After this I had them use the craft sticks without the framework.   My Four got it backward at first, but then had no trouble.  His little brother needed me to put down the long vertical line first and guide him as he set out the three horizontal ones.

letter E with Lincoln Logs

 My Four liked using his Lincoln Logs.

letter E with playdough

Next, we got out the play dough.  By this time the letter formation had gotten too tough for my Two, and he was doing his own thing.    His big brother created this E.  Yes, it was backwards.  (Confession: I reversed the image for my collage up above!)  

letter E written in playdough

Then he took a craft stick and wrote in the play dough.

letter E written in cornmeal

He used his finger to write in cornmeal.    I have this great little wooden frame that came with another toy.  We can put a light layer of cornmeal inside, write in it, and shake it gently to start all over.

letter E worksheet

Finally  he was ready for something tough.  He is not ready for traditional handwriting pages yet, so I designed this page.  He started with the giant E (you can see how he made it incorrectly at first) and then progressed through the next smallest E until he was writing in the tiny ones.  You can get the complete set of handwriting pages here.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: preschool, kindergarten, Pre-K, fine motor

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6 Comments

  1. Viki Hoover

    January 30, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    Hi. I am wondering if you did all eight of these activities on the same day, or spread them out over several days. Thanks.

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    • Anna Geiger

      January 30, 2015 at 7:30 pm

      Hi Vikki! We spread them out over several days. Since I had two boys doing these, we did a bunch each day. I am currently doing the alphabet with my three year old (he was one year old when I wrote this post). We just do 2 or 3 of these a week.

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  2. becca

    October 6, 2014 at 9:22 am

    Thanks for the ideas! My child development class is helping the preschool learn there alphabet every week. This week is the letter E and and we need to help them recognize the letter E. This page helped out thank you:)

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    • Anna Geiger

      October 9, 2014 at 9:26 am

      I’m glad this was helpful for you, Becca! If you haven’t already checked out my Alphabet page, you’ll find links to nearly every letter with tons of other activities. (We’re planning to finish up the whole alphabet in about six weeks!)

      https://www.themeasuredmom.com/learning/

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  3. Suzie

    April 28, 2014 at 12:54 am

    Thank you for sharing these great ideas! We are about to start some Letter E learning so I have gained some inspiring ideas from your blog. Thanks again

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    • Anna Geiger

      May 1, 2014 at 8:14 pm

      You’re welcome, Suzie! I hope you keep coming back for inspiration for the rest of the alphabet.

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