Teaching the letters of the alphabet is always a favorite of mine. One great way to engage kids in letter learning is to give them activities that create letter crafts. Making a craft for each letter of the alphabet helps kids notice similarities and differences in the way the letters are formed and that each letter makes different sounds. Today we are looking at the letter W, specifically W is for Winter.
For this craft I cut out the letter W out of construction paper and gave the kids a small bowl of mini marshmallows. Most kids are suckers for anything that involves food, so they are usually very excited to participate. I tell the kids that we are going to pretend the marshmallows are snowballs and we are going to stick them onto our W to represent Winter. Next I have the kids take a bite out of a marshmallow and eat that half and then stick the other half onto the W. Because the marshmallow is so sticky NO GLUE is needed! Such yummy fun!
This letter craft represents the letter “W” in the 31 Days of ABC over at All Done Monkey. Where Each letter is linked to a craft on a different blog listed below.
After taking a break last year due to the arrival of Baby #3, we are back with one of my favorite series, the
31 Days of ABC! You can look forward to 31 more days of activities, crafts, books, apps, and more, all dedicated to teaching young children the alphabet.
I am so happy to be working with an amazing group of kid bloggers, who will be sharing their amazing ideas with us in the coming days. And this year for the first year we are also adding a giveaway, so be sure to scroll to the end and enter for a chance to win!
So join us as we jump, skip, hop, and read our way through the alphabet this October!
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31 Days of ABCs Pinterest board for even more great ABC ideas!
31 Days of ABC
Teaching the ABCs - October 1
All Done Monkey: Creating a Preschool Letter of the Week Curriculum
A - October 2
Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails: Apple Scented Glitter Glue and Apple Craft
B - October 3
Witty Hoots: How to Make Fabulous Button Bookmarks
C - October 4
Preschool Powol Packets: Construction Truck Preschool Action Rhyme
D - October 5
ArtsyCraftsyMom: Printable Dinosaur Alphabet Sequencing Puzzle
E - October 6
Preschool Powol Packets: Elephant Art Project and Thailand Lesson
F - October 7
Spanglish Monkey: Spanish-English ABC Flashcards
G - October 8
Royal Baloo: Simple Ghost Painting Project
H - October 9
Peakle Pie: Hide and Seek
I - October 10
Look! We're Learning!: Insect Activities for Kids
J - October 11
All Done Monkey: Olmec Jaguar Craft
K - October 12
Preschool Powol Packets: I Am a Kite Action Rhyme for Preschool
L - October 13
Raising a Trilingual Child: Letter Learning with a Mult0ilingual Twist
M - October 14
Creative World of Varya
N - October 15
Peakle Pie: Narwhal Fingerprint Pictures
O - October 16
For the Love of Spanish: O es de Oso
P - October 17
Little Hiccups: P is for Places, A Travel ABC Book
Q - October 18
All Done Monkey: Bilingual Letter Craft - Q is for ¿QuĂ©? Q is for Question
R - October 19
Sugar, Spice & Glitter
S - October 20
Crafty Mama in ME: Patterned Paper Plate Snake
T - October 21
Discovering the World Through My Son's Eyes: Puerto Rican Flamboyant Tree
U - October 22
Witty Hoots: How to Make Awesome Unicorn Headbands
V - October 23
Creative World of Varya
W - October 24
Scribble Doodle and Draw
X - October 25
All Done Monkey
Y - October 26
Our Daily Craft
Z - October 27
Discovering the World Through My Son's Eyes
123's - October 28
Hispanic Mama
Prewriting - October 29
Sugar Aunts
Books, Songs, & Apps - October 30
The Jenny Evolution
Alphabet Clip Cards - October 31
The Kindergarten Connection alphabet clip cards
Find more great resources in 31 Days of ABCs 2013 and 2014!
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