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.
I printed large block letters (get your letter A here) and my Three filled them with foam animal stickers.
I printed another A, and this time he filled it with foam alphabet stickers.
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.
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. 🙂
Now it was my Five’s turn. He brought a bag of apples up from our basement fridge and quickly came up with this.
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!).
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.
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.
These pages introduce my kids to writing on handwriting lines. The letters are nice and big for young preschoolers. Get your copy here.
I recommend these handwriting sheets for older preschoolers. They require good fine motor skills but give just enough guidance that they’re not overwhelming.
Alphabet Curriculum for Preschool
$29.00
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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Jeff
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Holly Laskey
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nani
hey Anna,
thank u so much for being very helpful with the resources!
much love, Nani
Anna G
You’re very welcome, Nani!
Veronica Tan
Simple and engage children independently ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Anna G
You’re welcome, Veronica!
Hannah
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.
Anna G
You’re welcome, Hannah!
Candii Anderson
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Anna G
You’re very welcome, Candii!
Mariam
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.
Anna G
I think that it’s wonderful that you’re working with her, Mariam!
murthy SLN
really superb ideas mam
Anna G
Thank you!
Prashant
Prashant
Very Good ideas.Thank you very much for sharing with every one.
Anna
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
Anna Geiger
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!
Leigha
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!
Anna Geiger
Sounds like you’ve got some amazing ideas of your own, Leigha! I hope you keep finding a few more here. 🙂
Fiona
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!
Anna Geiger
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. 🙂
KABIR
Very Good ideas.Thank you very much for sharing with every one
Jaya Jivarajah
Very Good ideas.Thank you very much for sharing with every one.
Anna Geiger
You’re welcome, Jaya!
Carla Morazan
Excellent ideas. Thanks to share with teachers.