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A peek at our week: Letter A Activities

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Take a peek at our letter A activities this week!

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

While the Letter of the Week is much too slow for kids in kindergarten, I’ve enjoyed following this format with my preschoolers at home. 

Our youngest son just turned three.  I’ve begun a Letter of the Week with him, and each week I’ll be sharing our activities.

Time for letter A!

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

First, I introduced letter A with my letter book of rhymes and songs.  This was a favorite!  We also read My Letter A book, a simple word book with bright photographs.  

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

He really enjoyed using dot stickers to complete the whole A is for Apple page. After he was done, I laminated it and set it aside for a homemade alphabet book.

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

We didn’t do any handwriting pages, because he’s not ready for that. (If your preschooler shows an interest, you might want to start with my beginning handwriting pages.)  Instead, I printed a giant letter A and invited my Three to put alphabet stickers on it.

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

We did some simple art and crafts.  Since my toddler loves vehicles, I knew he’d love this ambulance craft.

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

I drew an apple and put glue all over it with a gluestick.  Then my Three enjoyed putting on the red paper.

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

Finally, we did a process art activity: apple stamping!  We laminated this project and are going to make it into a letter book.  Learn more about that here!

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

For another math activity, I printed some giant shapes and told him which animal to put on each shape.  He loved this!  You can get a big set of printable shapes and find more ways to learn math with toy animals in this post.

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

Sensory play is a little tough for my type A personality, but my kids love it.  We put some apple number cards in a bin of dried oatmeal, but for this first go at it my Three was much more interested in scooping and pouring than finding the numbers.  His little sister couldn’t resist joining in. You can get the printable cards in this post.

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

As always, we read a lot of books. Here are some of our favorites for letter A.  Check out the rest of our letter A picks in our letter A book list.

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

Letter of the week is a lot of fun, but it’s always important to bring it back to the whole alphabet!  This week we did a simple foam alphabet puzzle I got at The Dollar Tree.

Check out this giant set of letter A activities for preschool! Printable books, activity sheets, book lists, craft ideas, and more!

Finally, we’re always focusing on the letters that are most important to my preschooler: the ones in his name.  This week we did a simple name parking garage like the one we saw at Growing Book by Book.

All your links in one spot!

  • Little Letter A Book (songs and rhymes)
  • Letter A Dot Sticker Page
  • My Letter A Book (with photos)
  • Letter A Crafts
  • Letter A Book List
  • Giant letter A to print

Is your child ready for more of a challenge?

My little guy just turned 3.  If you have an older child or one who’s simply ready for the next step, try some of these!

  • Try more toy animal math.
  • Do some letter A handwriting pages.
  • Try Beginning Sound Cover with poker chips.
  • Clip the pictures on our beginning sound clip cards.
  • Practice beginning sounds with our match mats.
  • Do a beginning sound coloring page.

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19 Comments

  1. Gloria

    June 4, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    I have a 4 year old who I think has ADHD, she just can’t remember the letters she can recite them but when I ask her show me the letter B she doesn’t know where it is any suggestions?

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    • Kate Dowling

      June 4, 2020 at 2:25 pm

      Hi Gloria!

      This is Kate, Anna’s assistant. Anna has a podcast on this topic: “How to help learners who struggle to learn the alphabet.” Please listen to it for some great tips!
      https://www.themeasuredmom.com/how-to-help-learners-who-struggle-to-learn-the-alphabet/

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  2. Salma

    August 22, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    Hi Anna…I just love your blog. Finally I found something that suits me.I have four kids..8,6,5 and3 years old… Elders ones are school going.I always end up ignoring one of them… Just wanted to ask how do you manage to work on each one of yours (m presupposing you do)… How much time do you spend on each one each day… What’s your routine
    Thanks a lot

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    • Anna G

      September 1, 2018 at 6:48 am

      That’s a great question, Salma! I admit that this is a struggle for me. I try to read aloud to all my kids, so that helps. We haven’t gotten into a new routine yet with the new school year, but that’s my goal. In general I am trying to be more attentive when they talk with me and give them what they need when they need it… the kids have different days when they are more in need of special attention.

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  3. Julie

    August 5, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    I’m so excited I found your letter books! I’m going to try some if these in my pre k class 🙂

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    • Anna Geiger

      August 6, 2016 at 11:23 am

      That’s great to hear, Julie – I hope your students enjoy them!

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  4. Kim

    January 29, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    Hi Anna,

    When you purchase the $18 curriculum book (to print) does it also come with the printable activity sheets or just the description of the activity.

    Thanks!

    Kim

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    • Anna Geiger

      January 29, 2016 at 2:01 pm

      Hi Kim! Because it has links to many, many free printables, it has links instead of the printables themselves. (Also, some of the printables are not from my website, so I could not legally include them.) You can see sample pages to see what I mean in the product description: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/product/letter-of-the-week-curriculum/

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  5. Lanie

    January 18, 2016 at 11:10 pm

    This is such a god send! I have been trying to come up with something to do with my 3 year old son and needed something that had structure. This is such an awesome resource! Thank you so much! You have no idea how much this means to me!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      January 22, 2016 at 5:42 pm

      You’re very welcome, Lanie! I need structure, too, which is why I did this series. 🙂 Soon I’m going to start one with his little sister, who is going to do a modified version at two years old.

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  6. Lori

    March 2, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    Hi, Anna! I love your website! Thanks for sharing so many great resources. Quick question: How long do you spend on these activities per day? How do you decide what to work on each day? And do you do them every day of the week or just a few days of the week? I really want to get going with my 3 and 4, but I am not sure how to proceed. You probably have a post about these questions somewhere…

    Thanks,

    Lori

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    • Anna Geiger

      March 3, 2015 at 12:10 pm

      Great questions, Lori! Honestly I have not gotten into as much as a routine as I’d like, because I have five kids and this blog. However… my goal is to do 10-15 minutes per day, 4-5 days a week. Sometimes we get there, sometimes not. We read books at any old time, so I don’t include that in the time.

      I just go through my Alphabet page and click on a particular letter, where I’ve listed a HUGE variety of activities for crafts, books, math, etc. Then I choose the activities best suited to my son, his interests, and his ability level. I also print materials from Learning the Alphabet that I think he’d enjoy.

      Here’s my alphabet page: https://www.themeasuredmom.com/learning/

      Let me know if you have more questions!

      Reply to this comment
  7. Mihaela

    February 3, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    Think we’ll be starting letter of the week too this year, probably in autumn. Love seeing the variety of activities you did with letter A!

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    • Anna Geiger

      February 4, 2015 at 7:17 pm

      Hopefully if you start in autumn we’ll have the whole series done and you can have a great resource to help you out. 🙂 Thanks for reading, Mihaela!

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  8. Holly B.

    February 2, 2015 at 11:16 pm

    Another great post! Curious… where do you get all your great clipart? I know you give credit in your printables to all the great graphic designers out there, but how do you find the amazing clipart?

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      February 4, 2015 at 7:17 pm

      HI Holly! If you want to use clipart for yourself, and not commercially (such as sharing on a blog post), you can get a subscription to Clipart.com, which is affordable considering everything you get. I used them for a lot of my earlier printables, but they have new ownership now and do not permit their clip art to be used on pdfs on websites. You can also look at Graphicsfactory.com. Now that I can’ t use Clipart.com, I mostly get my clip art from individual sellers on Teachers Pay Teachers.

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  9. Meghan

    January 31, 2015 at 1:20 pm

    What a great post! I just love all your ideas. My son also just turned 3 so it so nice to see what other 3 year old boys are doing. My older daughter was little miss queen of fine motor, coloring in the lines, etc (total perfectionist!) and it is so hard not to compare them! My son is also not ready for handwriting pages so we look at letters and he *tries* to trace the letters with his fingers 🙂 Your little alphabet books are perfect for that and somehow I missed them when you put them out. We are already obsessed with your nursery rhyme books-me and my 3 children (ages 2, 3, 4) all absolutely LOVE them! Definitely going to print the abc ones for my son as well. Thank you so much for all you do!

    Reply to this comment
    • Anna Geiger

      February 4, 2015 at 7:14 pm

      I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoying the little letter books, Megan! I have a special place in my heart for those, as I created them before I started blogging. I hope you enjoy following along with the rest of our alphabet series!

      Reply to this comment
      • Johana

        February 2, 2018 at 7:26 pm

        Such an amazing idea! I have a 2and half year old, im gonna start soon with this project i love it

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