Check out our fun collection of letter Y activities!
My Three and I are almost done with our Letter of the Week activities. Take a peek at our week!
(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!)
My Three knows all his letters and sounds, so this kind of page is no longer necessary to help with letter recogntion. But we pull out these letter find pages every so often to give him some fine motor practice with a Do-a-Dot marker.
Y is for yawn! I love this one. You can print this letter Y pattern on construction paper before cutting it out. There isn’t a lot of creativity in this craft, but you could have your child add hair to the person, draw clothes on the letter, etc. And there’s a lot of expression in that big mouth. 🙂
I definitely prefer to do process art in addition to a basic craft, but this mama is oh-so-pregnant and oh-so-not-up-for-the-mess.
Can you tell what this is? It’s a yeast experiment! Such a simple and fun one, too. You can see how we did it at PBS Kids.
Yarn on sandpaper is a surprisingly fun sensory activity. Try to find sandpaper with a good grip. This kept my Three busy a while. You can ask your child to make shapes and letters or just let him create with different lengths of yarn.
Matching upper and lowercase letters with yarn was inspired by an activity we saw at Hands On As We Grow. I cut the yarn myself and made the pieces the right length before snipping them off. Then I taped them to the capital letters, and my Three connected them to the corresponding lowercase letters.
We didn’t read letter Y books this time because we completed these activities just days before #6 was due, and I didn’t want to have to think about returning library books in the weeks following baby’s birth. But you can see our favorites here.
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More links and free printables for you
- Little Letter Y Book (songs and rhymes)
- My Letter Y Book (with photos)
- More letter Y arts & crafts
- Letter Y books
- Making letter Y
- Parking lot beginning sounds pages
- Letter hunt and find pages
- Letter sound coloring pages
- Letter sound worksheets
See the whole series …
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Alphabet Curriculum for Preschool
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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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