Letter R activities for preschool

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Have you seen my giant collection of alphabet activities? Today I’m sharing a few of our favorite letter R activities for preschool.

Do you do letter of the week at your home or in your classroom?

I’ve found this to be a helpful approach to preschool at home for my 3-year-old. When we began this a few months ago, he recognized only a handful of letters. Now he knows them all! We’re still finishing up with the series, though, because I love the structure it provides for

crafts and process art
fine motor activities
read-aloud books
math connections

and so much more!

You’ll find some of these activities on my Alphabet Activities page. (And you’ll find even more in my fabulous new Letter of the Week curriculum!)

Let’s take a peek at letter R.

Letter R Activities

When we began our letter of the week, I found it important to start each week with a letter recognition activity. Since my Three recognizes all of the alphabet now (thanks to the many whole alphabet activities we incorporate into letter of the week), I don’t find these as necessary.

But we did pull out my letter R dot page this week. He loves our Do-a-Dot markers!

We were inspired by Nurture Store’s rainbow writing tray and made our own. I couldn’t believe how much fun he had drawing in salt with a chopstick! You can see how he attempted some letter writing, including the backward “L.” 🙂

I’ve been wanting to pull out the river rocks I bought at Michael’s. We used them to make play dough snakes (see the idea at Sugar Aunts), which was a great fine motor and sensory activity in one.

As long as we had the rocks out, I pulled out our balance for some simple math. We talked about “heavy” and “light.” He worked on balancing the scale and making each side heavier or lighter.

I wrote the letter “R” on a piece of paper, and my Three made a rocky R right on top of it. Then he surprised me by saying he wanted to write the letter himself.

I was so impressed! Because he doesn’t have the correct pencil grip yet, we haven’t started my beginning handwriting pages yet. But I love that he’s finally interested in attempting letter writing on his own!

We love these rainbow number matching cards at From ABC’s to ACTs.

We did this simple R is for rain craft. Be sure to visit our post with more letter R arts and crafts ideas!

We also printed the rainbow fish from Crafty Morning and followed their tutorial for celery painting. What a neat idea!

He had fun making this potato print rabbit, also from Crafty Morning.

For a whole alphabet and name activity in one, we used the free printable from PreK Pages. My son sorted the letters to show which ones are in his name. I wrote his name at the top of the paper as a reference.

We’re reading all week long! The above widget shows some of our favorite letter R books.

Stay tuned for letter S!