Preschool Alphabet Crafts - 40 Ways To Make Letters

Preschoolers can make temporary letters. Take a photo of these if you can. They can also make permanent letters which can be glued on to card. If the medium is heavier than paper use craft glue.

Here are 40 different ways children can make alphabet letters.

1. shaping play dough
2. a long piece of string or rope (use one piece long enough to make the whole letter - some letters like capital A will need another short piece)
3. small pieces of wool (use the wool in clumps)
4. small foam pieces
5. potato and other vegetable prints (try a quarter of a pumpkin for a c)
6. painting (finger/brush/roller/spray gun)
7. colored match sticks
8. popcorn (needs lots of craft glue)
9. cereal (fruit loops, rice bubbles)
10. shaving cream or christmas snow on glass
11. chalk on a black board or on concrete
12. thin sticks (break them up into small pieces)
13. cellophane pieces between two pieces of contact paper (tape one piece of upside-down contact paper to the work table, add the cellophane pieces and then seal with the other piece of contact. Make simple letters like T with this medium)
14. flour on a cutting board (use the flour after to make play dough)
15. glitter or confetti
16. leaves or small pieces of leafy branch (pine trees are good for this)
17. fresh or pressed flowers
18. colored chalk on black paper
19. magazine pieces collage
20. people (two people lying down can easily make an O or a T)
21. beans, lentils, barley, rice, pasta or a mix of all of them (rice on its own looks great on black)
22. craft sticks
23. blocks (wooden and plastic)
24. bark chips
25. scrap colored paper collage (pastels on black or bright colors on white)
26. colored thin paper or cardboard curls (cut into thin strips. Students can wrap the strips around a pencil to make curly shapes)
27. shaping clay
28. pebbles on sand (sand pit or zen garden)
29. small or large seeds
30. cotton buds (use them whole or stretch them out)
31. buttons
32. small pieces of material scraps glued on to card or whole pieces of clothing shaped on the grass (sheets and blankets are fun to - you can photograph someone sleeping on a letter s)
33. wet sand dribble (fill a small bucket with wet sand - it needs to be sloppy wet - use handfuls of the sand to dribble the shape)
34. fruit
35. plastic animals
36. photos
37. wrapping paper pieces collage
38. crepe paper (these can be flat pieces or scrunched up for a 3D effect)
39. pipe cleaners
40. newspaper pieces collage

A whole "preschool alphabet craft" alphabet made out of different mediums makes a fantastic classroom display.