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Letter U Activities for Preschool

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Looking for letter U activities? Take a peek at our week!
Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

(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 U Activities

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

My Three liked this find the letter page. You can get the whole set here.

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

We didn’t do a lot of crafty things this week because there just isn’t much to do for letter U. But he loves watercolors and enjoyed painting this umbrella and adding the dots of rain with a Q-tip.

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

To work more on letter U’s sound, I printed this beginning sound coloring page. He needs a lot of assistance with these, but with my help identifying the pictures and saying their names, he does quite well. Get the full set of pages here.

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

This activity combined sensory play and letter sounds. We buried letter tiles in a bowl of colored rice. He took them out one by one and found their matching picture on the board. This was a little tiring for him as it took some effort to find the right picture. Next time I think we’ll take turns with the tiles.  

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

For math, we pulled out some unifix cube activities. He loved tracing the numbers on the post-it notes after I wrote them in pencil. Then we put the numbers in order, and he made stacks of cubes for each one.

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

He rolled the die and made a tower with the same number of blocks as the number showing on the die.  For more unifix cube math activities, be sure to visit this post.

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

Since we had the cubes out, we did a little fine motor activity. After showing him how to make a J with the cubes (that’s the first letter of his name), I encouraged him to make the shape of a U. He did it!

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

We’ve found that writing with a chopstick is great fine motor practice. Writing in millet on a baking sheet is pretty fun!

Looking for letter U activities for preschoolers? You'll love the variety of activities (plus free printables!) in this post.

I’ve laminated all my Letters of All Sizes handwriting pages, and I’ve started to pull out uppercase pages to do with my Three. He loves using the dry erase marker to trace each letter. In the picture you can see the results of my attempt to get him to hold the marker correctly. We have a long way to go on that, but it’s all about baby steps, right?

Normally I share a few of our favorite books in these peeks at our week, but letter U doesn’t have much to offer. You can see the few we found in our letter U book list.  

Looking for a done-for-you alphabet curriculum?

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Our curriculum includes lessons for teaching both upper and lowercase letter names and sounds. You’ll get three lessons per letter, built-in review, simple handwriting practice, rhyming, syllable counting, phonemic awareness, and a whole lot more!

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More links and free printables for you

  • Little Letter U Book (songs and rhymes)
  • My Letter U Book (with photos)
  • More letter U crafts
  • Letter U books
  • Making letter U
  • Parking lot beginning sounds pages
  • Letter hunt and find pages
  • Letter sound coloring pages
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3 Comments

  1. Olivia Smith

    February 28, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    I like some of these activities, but it does seem like a lot of worksheets for this age versus hands on-activities.

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  2. Cherry Brown

    January 10, 2016 at 8:58 am

    The Measured Mom always has a load of great activities. My daughter abolutely love the spelling games, sight word uno and short & long vowel dominos.

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    • Anna Geiger

      January 10, 2016 at 8:14 pm

      Thanks for letting me know what your daughter enjoys, Cherry! That helps me as I plan future activities. 🙂

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