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Ways to Make the Letter A

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If you’ve seen my other posts about writing the alphabet, you know that we love to find creative ways to make our letters.  Read on to learn a variety of ways to make the letter A.

Ways to make the letter A - the measured mom

make A (3) - the measured mom

I printed large block letters (get your letter A here) and my Three filled them with foam animal stickers.

make A (5) - the measured mom

I printed another A, and this time he filled it with foam alphabet stickers.

make A (2) - the measured mom

I like to have my kids make straight letters using straight objects — and it’s a bonus if they start with that letter.  We made an N with nails and a Y with yarn.  But what do do for letter A?  Finally I decided to print and cut out some  alligators. My Three easily positioned them but needed my help when setting them up to glue on paper.

make A (1) -the measured mom

My Three loves my dot sticker pages, and this time he took very special care to place each round sticker into its place on the page.  Love his concentration. 🙂

make A (4) - the measured mom

Now it was my Five’s turn.  He brought a bag of apples up from our basement fridge and quickly came up with this.

make A (6) - the measured mom

If you squint, can you see the letter A?  He used our toy animals (mostly from Schleich — a little expensive, but so solid and realistic! Love ’em!).

make A (7) - the measured mom

It’s fun to write a letter with your finger in something that’s edible! This time we used applesauce.  It was a little frustrating for my Five, as he couldn’t get the A to stay visible. But all frustration was set aside when I told him to grab a spoon.

make A (8) - the measured mom

Have you seen our Letters of All Sizes collection?  I love to use these as first handwriting pages.  Have your child start at the red dot in the biggest letter.  As he gets a steady hand, he can move to the tiniest A’s.  By the way, you may have noticed that I started at the top of each letter A instead of the lower left hand corner.  When I create these pages I follow Zaner Bloser’s handwriting method because that’s what my kids will be using when they get to kindergarten.  It seems that they like to have you start all letters at the top of the line where possible.    Get your copy by visiting this page.

make A (9) - the measured mom

These pages introduce my kids to writing on handwriting lines. The letters are nice and big for young preschoolers.  Get your copy here.

make A (10) - the measured mom

I recommend these handwriting sheets for older preschoolers.  They require good fine motor skills but give just enough guidance that they’re not overwhelming.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: fine motor, preschool, kindergarten, Pre-K

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26 Comments

  1. Jeff

    January 5, 2020 at 6:15 am

    Love love love this website. Father of two, a toddler and preschooler. FINALLY! A website that makes it intuitive and fast to find what you need. I especially appreciate the weaving of games into the learning experience.

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  2. Holly Laskey

    December 19, 2019 at 10:43 pm

    I just wanted to say, thank you so very much for these lovely worksheets!

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  3. Fe Meadows

    September 15, 2019 at 6:33 pm

    Thank you for making teacher’s life easier. Thank you for all the freedbies!

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  4. nani

    March 5, 2019 at 8:03 am

    hey Anna,

    thank u so much for being very helpful with the resources!

    much love, Nani

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    • Anna G

      March 10, 2019 at 4:34 pm

      You’re very welcome, Nani!

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  5. Veronica Tan

    December 22, 2018 at 8:47 pm

    Simple and engage children independently ideas. Thank you for sharing.

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    • Anna G

      December 26, 2018 at 12:04 pm

      You’re welcome, Veronica!

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  6. Hannah

    April 17, 2018 at 11:25 am

    nice ideas and thank you for the freebies. Im a stay at home mom guiding and helping a 3yr and 6yr kid with 1 yr old …its challenging to meet their needs and sit with them and when i take time to teach them your printable comes in handy. Thankyou for sharing. God bless you more for all you are doing.

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    • Anna G

      April 19, 2018 at 3:48 pm

      You’re welcome, Hannah!

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  7. Candii Anderson

    February 22, 2018 at 9:02 am

    Gratitude…… Your site has help me Tremendously! One stop shop to help me homeschool my children and it free! Thank you again for sharing!

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    • Anna G

      February 23, 2018 at 9:19 am

      You’re very welcome, Candii!

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  8. Mariam

    November 17, 2017 at 3:54 pm

    thank you for this information, I have been helping my granddaughter with writing her name. so far we are working on the letter “A”, I’m having a hard time getting her to write it correctly. she has been writing it upside down. but we are getting there.

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    • Anna G

      November 23, 2017 at 5:34 pm

      I think that it’s wonderful that you’re working with her, Mariam!

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  9. murthy SLN

    September 13, 2017 at 5:04 am

    really superb ideas mam

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    • Anna G

      September 27, 2017 at 1:14 pm

      Thank you!

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  10. Prashant

    July 8, 2016 at 4:57 am

    Prashant
    Very Good ideas.Thank you very much for sharing with every one.

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  11. Anna

    October 30, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Hi Anna! Thank you for all your fabulous ideas AND for all the time you spend sharing your ideas on your blog. I often feel like preschool is the hardest grade to teach because I am not creative. I have a hard time thinking of hands-on activities to teach my preschooler. So, thank you, thank you, thank you! From, another Anna

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    • Anna Geiger

      November 3, 2015 at 11:00 am

      I’m right there with you, Anna – I had such a hard time getting motivated and thinking of activities to do with my third child that I started this blog to keep myself accountable. It’s fun once you get into it, but I agree — you really need a lot of ideas to teach preschool!

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  12. Leigha

    June 19, 2015 at 5:13 am

    Hi there! I’m just starting a letter of the week with my preschoolers at home, and came across your site on Pinterest. Thank you for sharing all of these resources! Before I came to this page I was already practicing tactile letter formation, and had them make an A (upper and lower) out of almonds, and then out of rolled up aluminum foil. I’ll be adding your ideas as we’re still on letter A this week!

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    • Anna Geiger

      June 24, 2015 at 7:18 pm

      Sounds like you’ve got some amazing ideas of your own, Leigha! I hope you keep finding a few more here. 🙂

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  13. Fiona

    June 11, 2015 at 7:27 am

    Wow, your site is amazing! I am a (mostly) stay-at-home mum who teaches pre-primary (Australia) one day per week. Your ideas are useful for school but I can also apply them at home with my two little ones. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your ideas. You’ve saved me a lot of time!

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    • Anna Geiger

      June 24, 2015 at 5:35 pm

      Hi Fiona! I’m so glad to save you time – that’s one of my main goals of this blog. I know how crazy it is to manage parenting, not to mention teaching too! I hope you keep finding things here you can use. 🙂

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  14. KABIR

    April 30, 2015 at 4:03 am

    Very Good ideas.Thank you very much for sharing with every one

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  15. Jaya Jivarajah

    February 18, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    Very Good ideas.Thank you very much for sharing with every one.

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    • Anna Geiger

      February 19, 2015 at 6:15 am

      You’re welcome, Jaya!

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  16. Carla Morazan

    September 22, 2014 at 10:43 pm

    Excellent ideas. Thanks to share with teachers.

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