Letterland Canada

Red Robot– Finger paint with red paint. Trace an “r” and have children cut it out. Haved the children cut out a roller skate, and glue it onto the bottom of the letter.

Sammy Snake – Place stickers on Sammy’s shape to indicate scales. This activity can also be used with two or three colours of stickers to test pattern comprehension – we teachers are so sneaky!

Talking Tess – Glue toothpicks on Tess’s shape.

Uppy Umbrella – Cut umbrellas shapes out of fingerpaint paper. Sprinkle with different powdered paint colours. Have children make rain by dripping water on with an eye-dropper. Watch the colours run! Glue a black “u” to the bottom to form a handle.

Vicky Violet – Make violets from paper (with tissue paper leaves) and a pipecleaner; add faces. Cut out a vase in the form of the letter “v” from black construction paper, and fill the space with blue tissue paper. Place the flowers in the “water”.

Walter Walrus – Cut out a large “W” and have children paint it with watercolours. You can add blue tissue water wells if you wish.

Fix-It Max – Have the children make a card and sign their name, adding x’s and o’s for kisses and hugs. This letter is often introduced around Father’s Day, so it fits in perfectly.

Yellow Yo-Yo Man - Have the children use yellow yarn to sew along Yo-Yo Man’s letter.

Zig Zag Zebra – Paint black stripes on white bristol board cut in a “z” shape – add eyes, a mouth, and pipecleaner legs.

Annie Apple – Take a small paper plate, (one of the heavier cardboard ones if possible), punch holes around the outside and draw Annie in the centre.  Have the children trace the letter with a marker, colour the apple red, and then lace around the outside of the plate with red yarn.

Bouncy Ben – Have the children glue pictures of berries - eg.strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, onto a picture of Bouncy Ben’s shape.  Older children (SK) could put them in a pattern (a good way to test their pattern knowledge!).

Clever Cat – draw Clever Cat’s letter and face on yellow construction paper (or, if you’re lucky enough to have a RISO machine, photocopy), and then have the children use cucumbers dipped in paint to do cucumber printing on the outline of the shape.

Dippy Duck – Shake cotton balls in a bag of yellow powdered paint and glue on Dippy Duck’s shape (see note above re RISO machine!)

Eddy Elephant – Make an elephant hat – trace, and then have children cut ears and a trunk from grey construction paper.  Staple to a grey construction paper headband.  Put eyes on the headband (you can make or the children can cut); you can also have the children print or trace the letter “e” on the trunk.

Firefighter Fred – Cut “f” shape from tagboard.  Cover with glue and sprinkle on coarse salt – when it dries it looks like frost!

Golden Girl – Either photocopy Golden Girl or cut out a “g” shape and then glue glitter on the shape.

Harry Hat Man – Trace a hat on a piece of finger paint paper, and have the children  finger paint the opposite side with green paint.  When dry, have children cut it out. Prepare a black construction paper “h” and have children glue it onto the hat.