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.

Fall Crafts For Preschool Sunday School

Fall is an exciting time of year with all of the bright colors of the leaves, and the smells that mark this special time of year. Here is your chance to create some fall memories with your preschool Sunday school class with these fun Bible crafts. They are specially designed for small hands, so children get instant satisfaction that they can create wonderful projects.

Stuffed Pumpkins

This is an easy craft that looks so lifelike when it is completed. Preschoolers will have a blast working with paints and other materials. You will need a grocery bag for each child, orange tempera paint, green tempera paint, large paintbrushes, raffia, and old newspapers. Have the children stuff old newspapers into a grocery bag. Let them fill up the bag about half the way (or less if you prefer). Bunch up the point where the newspaper pile ends and tie tight with raffia. Cut off the remaining bag that is above the raffia, making it shaped like leaves. Use what you have cut off to fashion a stem. You will not need to paint the stem because it is already brown. Now have the children paint the pumpkins orange and the leaves green. Stick the stem into the top center of the pumpkin pushing it down as far as you can to secure it. Let it dry. This craft goes well with any Bible lesson about harvest.

Apple Butterfly Pictures

This is a particularly fun craft for preschoolers. Apples are at their best in the Fall, so why not use some juicy apples to make a cool craft? Have extra apples available as a snack for this class. For the craft you will need apples cut in vertical slices, red acrylic paint, paintbrushes, cardstock paper (colored, optional), and crayons. Give each child a slice of an apple. Have them paint the meat of the apple with red acrylic paint. Then they will press the apple onto a sheet of cardstock paper towards the left side of the sheet to make an imprint. Fold the paper in half to create a symmetrical imprint on the right side of the paper. This should look like a butterfly. Have the children use crayons to add features to their butterflies, like antennae, legs, and even a background. For this project, it is best if you have a sample ready to show your class what it can look like when finished. This craft goes along with Bible lessons about Creation and/or harvest.

Fall Trees

This is a fun Fall craft for preschoolers. You will need pre-pressed leaves that you bring in from home. To press leaves, simply place each leaf between layers of wax paper. Iron the leaves to make them nice and flat. For this project, be sure to pick small leaves. In class you will need poster board paper, crayons, and glue sticks. Trace a child's hand and forearm on poster board to create a tree. The forearm will be the tree trunk and fingers will be branches. Have the children glue on the leaves to the branches (fingers). Let them color the trunk with crayons. If time allows, they can draw grass, a sun, and other features on their picture. Parents will get a kick out of seeing this craft. It makes a good choice when teaching about Creation, harvest, or even Zaccheus.

Making crafts is a staple in Sunday school class. Teachers get in a rut of making the same old things year after year. Hopefully, these crafts will bring some new ideas to your classroom. Have fun creating with your preschoolers.