Letter Z

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Letter Z

"Zacchaeus, come down at once.  I must stay at your house today." Luke 19:5

-Zoo: played a match animal babies with their mommies puzzle game that we had

-ate Zoo animal crackers

-coloring sheet for Zachaeus found on http://christianpreschoolprintables.com/BibleABC.html

-read the story of Zacchaeus in a children's Bible

-since this is the conclusions of the alphabet, we read alphabet letter books

-also played an alphabet phonics Bingo game that I had

Letter Y

 

 

 

 

The Letter Y

 

"You are the light of the world." Matthew 5:14

 

-Yellow collage, cutting things out of magazines and toy catalogs

 

-played the Yes game: using flashcards, taped a flashcard on the child's back, he or she has to ask yes or no questions to guess what is on their back

 

-made Yellow stars, using stars cut from foam sheets and gold glitter

 

-ate Yogurt for a snack

 

-could also do a yellow yarn lacing project

 

 

 

 

 

Letter X

 

 

 

 

The Letter X

 

No verse for this letter :(

 

-play this fun video about skeletons and bones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jpvuqj5nv6U

 

 

-X rays: printed this lifesize skeleton printout, from University of Texas Austin website:

http://www.eskeletons.org/pdf/000646791.pdf

or http://www.eskeletons.org/resources.html

1. Click on “Activities/Teaching Resources”
2. Click on “Life Size Printouts”
3. Choose “Juvenile Homo Sapiens”

assemble on the floor, tape together, measure the height, height of the child, and color it

-make our own Xrays: handprints using white paint on black construction paper

-eat Scooby snacks (bones_

-X Marks the Spot: really fun pirate abc book, cute rhyme wording, and they search for each letter on the page

-make water Xylophones- this was fun, too; using 4 or 5 glasses, fill with differing amounts of water, add food coloring, use metal and wooden utensils and objects to tap the sides of the glasses; forgot to take a photo, here's the idea from Preschool Alphabet Blog:

 

 

 



Letter W

 

 

The Letter W

 

"With Your help, we will win the battle." Ps 108:8

 

-make worms out of egg cartons, paint, used pip cleaners for antenna, googly eyes

 

-glued Wheel noodles on the lettrer W, also on car pictures that I printed on the computer

 

-used cookie cutters to cut shapes out of Watermelon

 

-Weather and Wind: added water to paint, put it in globs on paper, blew it with a straw, like the wind

 

-made spider Webs: painted white paper on black construction paper, dragging a piece of yarn through white paint, then dragging it across paper; after it dried, I cut the paper into the sape of a web

 

-Jonah and the Whale handwriting/coloring sheet: http://christianpreschoolprintables.com/Pages/BibleABC/Whale.html

 

-could also do projects with worms or weather

 

 



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Letter V

 

 

 

 

The Letter V

"I am the vine, you are the branches." John 15:5

-Letter V coloring sheet 

http://christianpreschoolprintables.com/BibleABC.html

-I am the Vine gluing page: vine out of pipe cleaner, hot glued leaves from the yard onto the vine

-made Vanilla ice cream (using this recipe, turned out a bit more like a milkshake, but it was still fun and the kids liked it- maybe we should have shaken it for longer?) 

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/homemade-ice-cream-in-a-bag-684806/

-played Vehicle bingo- we did it as we drove, but you could do it sitting, while watching out a window onto a busy street; I printed my vehicle Bingo sheet from Preschool Alphabet Blog: 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1DMAw-TcwdqbHBSOXdEazhTRU9CT2hwR0o3dGpJUQ/edit

or

http://preschoolalphabet.blogspot.com/search/label/V

-could do any activities with vehicles; one idea is to make roads using masing tape on the carpet, they drive matchbox cars along the roads; could place the roads across rooms, down hallways, ect..

Letter U

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Letter U

"Understanding is like a fountain of life to those who have it." Proverbs 16:22

-Read a book of opposites, some of which being the words Up and Under; we have Dinosaur Romp, so we read that one 

-Opposites Race Game: print opposite cards; I found this website on Preschool ABC blog: http://www.kizclub.com/opposites.htm

I cut apart the cards; we went over them and reviewed them; then I taped one word form each opposite set onto a door in our house; the kids stood on the other side of the room/down the hallway, I held the matches to the cards in my hand, standing across the room with the kids and called out each, one at a time; the kids had to run down, find the opposite match to the word I had called out, pull the card off the door, and run back to me with it

-Egg Hunt, hiding the eggs Up and Under: my kids love egg hunts-we fill the eggs with goldfish, raisins, fruit snack, fruit loops, ect...

-for older children, I had a United States puzzle, as well at a United States coloring book: I flagged the states we had recently traveled to, and were going to travel to soon, and had him color those and learn their facts

-make Umbrellas: using paper muffin cups; fletten them on a page and glue, make umbrella handles out of pipe cleaners, rain drops using blue glitter

Letter T

 

 

 

 

 

The Letter T

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart." Proverbs 3:5

-Tools: play with tools, using a piece of Styrofoam or a empty cardboard box, let them hammer nails into it- I used think, large screws (little less dangerous)

-Ten Tree: make a tree on construciton paper, I used cut out my tree trunks using foam sheets; go outside and gather 10 leaves, glue them onto the branches of the tree

-Tooth experiment: eat oreos, have kids look at their teeth in the mirror and see how dirty they are; then have them eat apple, look at their teeth and see how the look cleaner

-brushing Teeth with paint: draw a mouth full of teeth on construction paper; make a mixture of half glue half shaving cream, let the kids "brush their teeth" using their fingers or a paint brush

-we have Tangram puzzles, s today was a good day to get those out and play with them

-Telling Time: find any books about time that you may have (we have one called Tick Tock Sharks)

-other "T" words you could do an activity or read books about: tools, trucks, trains, teddy bear, turtle, toes)

Letter S

 

 

 

 

 

The Letter S

"Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness." Matthew 6:33

-Science experiment: we made crystals, and the kids thought it was super cool- mix 1 cup hot water to 3 tbsp borax (food coloring optional;) bend pipe cleaners into shapes that will fit inside a glass jar or tupperware- the shape needs to be completely submersed in borax solution, and cannot touch the sides of the container; I uses dental floss or string to suspend the shapes in solution, hanging from a ball point pen suspended over the mouth of the jar; leave them overnight, do not tough; in the morning crystals will have formed, remove from solution, place on paper plate or paper towel and let dry

-Salt painting: put glue on paper in apretty design, I spread out the thin strip of glue, into more of a wider ribbon shape, using my finger or paint brush.  Sprinkle salt over the glue, completely covering the glue. Mix water and food coloring, paint over the salt- the salt will dissolve and colors will bleed some

-Stamp letters: I wrote an assorment of letters all over a page, including the letters of their names (each letter in their name 2-3 times on the page) then I called out the letters, or for an older child, called out the sound the lettermakes, and they located the letter on the page and stamped it

-Read "The Very Busy Spider" by Eric Carle, or any other spider book you may have

-make paper plate Spiders, using paper plates, pipe cleaners for legs, and googly eyes

-Shapes snack: find foods of various shapes ot eat for snack (fruit loop circles, pretzel sticks, cinamon toast crunch squares ect..  Or could make Smoothies or Smores.

-Other "S" ideas: snowman, sheep

Letter R

 

 

 



The Letter R

"Rejoice in the Lord always." Psalm 33:1

-read Noah's Ark, emphasis on the rainbow- we read it out of the See With Me Wordless Bible, has fun graphics

-glue a fruit loop rianbow

-do a rocket activity- we played with stomp rockets that we already had

-make a rocket balloon: use an empty juice or soda bottle, pour about 1/4 full with vinegar; fill a deflated balloon with baking soda, attached the balolon to the top of the bttle, thus dumping in the baking soda; bubbles start to fill the balloon and inflate it; might add more vinegar if it doesn't inflate too much the first time

-make Red jello

-make a robot out of empty food boxes, google eyes, pipe cleaners

-do any activity or read a book about rain, rainbow, robots, rectangle, or round