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Activities for the Letter Y

July 22, 2014 by OneMommy

 

 

If you are a regular reader here, you know we’ve been doing a vehicle alphabet series.

We have just two letters left!   Today it’s time for activities for the letter Y!

preschool activities for letter Y

 

The day we did our letter Y activities I used sidewalk chalk to write the letter Y, along with a few other random letters, around the outside of the house.

After breakfast the kids went on a “Y” hunt!

letter y activity -- letter scavenger hunt

 

 

To make it more challenging for my 6 year-old I wrote several words that use the letter “Y” and asked her to read them when we found them.   (I used the words “you,” “yes,” “yellow,” “by,” and “why” which are all words she learned this year in kindergarten.

As she read the words we talked about the sounds the letter “Y” makes.  The 5 year-old had fun practicing the “Y” sounds.

We had one other activity to get us moving and learning outside… a letter “Y” hopscotch!

letter Y activity -- letter hopscotch

 

 

The idea was to only jump on the letter Y, avoiding any other letters.  I quickly found that they are really good at this!

 

When we went inside the 5 year-old worked on writing capital and lower-case “Y” with this letter Y worksheet.  

letter y activities

 

They both colored  some yacht coloring sheets I found online.  (After all, sticking with the vehicle-theme, “Y is for yacht!”)

And then it was time to build our own yachts!

y activities -- simple yacht craft for the letter Y

 

 

We used a block of styrofoam that I cut ahead of time to make the boat’s hull.  (If you have to cut it, i suggest doing it outside!)

For the masts we used drinking straws.  Use a pencil tip to poke a hole in the styrofoam; it makes it easier to push the straw into place!

Then we added colorful paper sails and our yachts were ready to sail!

letter y activity -- floating yachts

 

 

 

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: alphabet activity, learning activities with vehicles, vehicle craft

Comments

  1. Yuliya says

    July 25, 2014 at 1:11 am

    I love how easy and fun that boat craft looks! Plus it uses recyclables 🙂 Pinned it!

    • OneMommy says

      July 26, 2014 at 8:44 pm

      Thanks for pinning it!

      I love easy crafts! 🙂

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