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“U” Is for UHaul!

May 13, 2014 by OneMommy

My preschooler is obsessed with all things vehicles.

So it just made sense that we do lots of vehicle activities as we worked on letter and number skills at home.  

This week we made it to the letter U and so it was U is for Uhaul for our letter U activities.  

preschool craft for letter U

 

 

We started off driving our miniature UHaul truck along a U-shaped road, making U-turns and working on the shape of the letter.

Letter U activity for preschool

 

After all the giggles were over (a few other vehicles joined in and had a couple crashes), we talked about what a UHaul truck/trailer look like and what they are used for.

U-Haul Craft

Then we raided the recycling bin to build a UHaul truck from boxes.

creating a truck from cardboard boxes

 

First I cut the cracker box as you see in the picture, forming our ramp for the truck.

Then we covered the cracker box with white paper and used markers to add the orange stripe and write UHaul on the top.

The preschooler worked on holding his marker correctly as he colored some paper orange to cover the soap box that would become our cab.

A little tape to hold it all together and a 4 plastic lid wheels and we were ready to roll!  (Well, maybe scoot is more like it.)

 

I brought up our old wooden alphabet blocks to be our cargo.  And then I asked the preschooler to load the truck up, finding the letters in the alphabet — in order!


preschooler alphabet activity with trucks

 

Boy, did we have to sing that alphabet song more than a few times to remember which letter came next as we worked!   But he was super proud when the truck was all loaded up and ready for the big move.

Once the truck had driven around a while, the preschooler decided to unload the “boxes” and put them back in ABC order.

preschooler alphabet activity

 

I have a feeling our cardboard UHaul is going to stick around awhile, just like our ice cream truck craft did!

preschool activities for "U" from There's Just One Mommy

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Filed Under: Homeschool Tagged With: alphabet activity, learning activities with vehicles, preschooler, vehicle craft

Comments

  1. Tina Truelove says

    May 15, 2014 at 12:36 pm

    Cute idea! This will go alone with the transportation unit I’m doing right now. We might be able to fit this in this afternoon! Thanks for sharing!

    • OneMommy says

      May 16, 2014 at 7:49 pm

      Hope they have fun with it! If they like it, you may want to check out some of our other vehicle activities!

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