Today I’m sharing a variety of Letter V activities for preschoolers. We hope you get a chance to try some!
(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 V Activities
After months of doing alphabet activities, he knows all his letters and most of their sounds. But we still do these letter recognition activities for a little extra practice. He likes using Do-a-dot markers on my free Find the Letter pages.
To reinforce the sound of letter V, I printed this free funny face coloring page. He colored all the pictures that begin with the /v/ sound.
For a math activity, I wrote the numbers 1-10 on stickers and attached them to toy vehicles. Then I printed the parking lot (you can get in this post). He counted the stars and parked the cars in the correct spots.
Can you tell what this is? It’s meant to be a vase. 😉 I printed a pattern for the letter V (get it here) and cut it out. He painted the stems and flowers.
Of course, we had to do a volcano project. He had fun mixing red, yellow, and orange paint to make the lava.
This was his all time favorite activity! I printed this parking lot beginning sounds page (you can get ten for free here!). I labeled vehicles with the correct letters, and he parked them on the pictures whose names began with the letters.
He must have done this same page ten more times that day! Playing with toy cars is still one of his favorite things to do.
It really surprises me how much he likes these Letters of All Sizes handwriting pages, especially as his fine motor skills need a lot of work. I think it helps that I laminated them and give him a Dry Erase marker to use on them. And this is the first time I was able to get him to try something close to the correct pencil grip – woo hoo!
You’d think that after doing so well on those handwriting pages, writing in a salt tray would be a cinch. For some reason he got very frustrated with this today, as his V’s kept looking like U’s. I pushed my finger into the salt to make three dots for him to connect, but he wanted to make them himself. And it just wasn’t working out.
The V in the photo is one that I made. When it was clear we were getting nowhere, we abandoned this activity.
He pounded out his aggression with Do-a-Dot markers. 🙂 You can get this printable in this post.
We finished letter V with a homemade volcano! When I did this with my older boys we made volcanoes in the backyard, but this time we created our baking soda and vinegar volcano right at the kitchen table.
He’d have been happy to make volcanoes all day, but this heavily pregnant mom was ready to move on. We dumped our volcano in the sink and went to the couch to read a stack of books. Check out some of our favorite books for Letter V!
Looking for a done-for-you alphabet curriculum?
Alphabet Curriculum for Preschool
$36.00
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!
More links and free printables for you
- Little Letter V Book (songs and rhymes)
- My Letter V Book (with photos)
- More letter V crafts
- Letter V books
- Making letter V
- Parking lot beginning sounds pages
- Letter hunt and find pages
- Letter sound coloring pages
- Letter sound worksheets
See the whole series …
You’ll love our alphabet curriculum!
Alphabet Curriculum for Preschool
$36.00
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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Becky
Hi I’m a new subscriber to your site. I’m a qualified teacher but I’m currently not working until my youngest (of 3) starts nursery in another 18months. I love the range of activities you ve created and am really enjoying building up my bank of knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing them and also explaining how you juggle everything it’s really inspiring! Becky X
Anna Geiger
Thanks so much for subscribing, Becky! I love doing this and am thankful for people like you who follow along. 🙂 I hope you keep finding things you can use!
Elsie
Hi I have never commented to your posts .Thankyou so much for all the articles you post .I have a 15 year old and a 4 year old .I’m trying to teach my 4 year old preschool so we’re both learning .
I can’t get over you baking all tat bread .I too bake my own bread and make 5 loaves at a time but it’s always gone and eaten .so it’ll be nice for you to have all tat bread ready to just grab and eat .congratulations to your baby .I pray the delivery will be a easy one .what a blessing children are .So have fun baking .Elsie
Anna Geiger
Thanks so much, Elsie! I’m hoping to make tomorrow a marathon baking day… we’ll see if the kids cooperate. 🙂