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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.

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

When we began this a few months ago, my three-year-old 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!

Let’s take a peek at letter R.

(Update: I published this post years ago when my children were young. Now that I have more time, I’ve created a done-for-you alphabet curriculum perfect for preschool!)

Letter R Activities

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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!

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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.” 🙂

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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.

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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.

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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.

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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!

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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

Look at all these fun Letter R activities for preschoolers!

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.

Stay tuned for letter S!

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More links and free printables for you

  • letter R book (songs and rhymes)
  • My Letter R Book (with photos)
  • more letter R crafts
  • Ways to write letter R
  • Ways to write letter R
  • Letter hunt and find pages
  • Letter sound coloring pages
  • Letter sound worksheets

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