Today, I'd love to share with you a Santa 'S' letter craft. Have you seen our Alphabet Trace and Make Letter Crafts? This project is is the style of those and will help your little learners with
- letter identification (s)
- tracing (vertical line pattern)
- creative fine motor - coloring, cutting, assembling and gluing
To make the Santa 's', simply:
- print the template page - it's over in our FREE coloring club craft library
- trace the vertical internal vertical pattern lines on the 's' with a marker
- shade the other pieces in pencil
- cut and paste the pieces to create their Santa
If you prefer not to give your students 'step-by-step' projects, show them this idea and ask them to free cut their own Santa using paper scraps.
Class Game to Play
Review the letter sound s within a context of other letter sounds by playing this fun language-based listening game.
You need: A 'Santa sack' (or back filled with objects - some starting with S (e.g. soap, sunglasses, salt, seashell, spoon, stamp, seed)
To play:
- tell the students Santa has left a sack of interesting objects in the classroom for you to talk about
- tell the students that Santa has an elf who needs learning to say the ssssssss sound, you you're going to help by finding all the s objects in the sack
- invite one student at a time to reach into the sack and feel for an object, they pull it out and hold it up for all to see
- encourage talk about the object, modelling correct pronunciation, language structure and new vocabulary
- ask the student, or class, to identify the beginning sound of the object
- sort the objects into 2 piles - starts with s, does not start with s - label these 2 groups (early math)
- repeat until all objects have been sorted
Alphabet Letter Crafts
Over in our TpT store we have a full set of these letter crafts.
In it you will find easy prep projects for : apple, bee, cat, dog, elephant, fox, goat, house, insect, jaguar, koala, ladybug, mouse, nurse, octopus, penguin, queen, rabbit, snake, turkey, umbrella, violet, walrus, xylophone, yak and zebra.
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