Preschool activities letter s

20 Engaging Letter S Activities For Preschoolers

Letter building and letter recognition are foundational skills built throughout preschool and kindergarten. In preschool, specifically encouraging and practicing motor skills should come at the top of the list. There is an excess of cute letter activities out there for teachers all around the world. It can be a bit overwhelming to find the correct letter activities for your classroom! Our teachers have compiled a collection of letter S activities that will not only keep your preschoolers engaged, but also teach them the importance of having fun with letters!

Bringing out the sand buckets is always a fun activity for students. By using letter cards have students draw the letters they see in the sand. They will love to practice building letters with this awesome letter S activity.

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This letter learning activity is a great way to practice the sound letter S makes. By listening and searching they will be able to make a connection of the letter to life in your preschool classroom or at home!

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A great way to practice the uppercase letter S is to build a snake! This fun letter S crafts & printable is perfect for your upcoming alphabet activities. Students will love attaching googly eyes and bringing their snakes to life.

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This adorable construction papercraft is toddler-approved! Your students and toddlers at home will love making a connection between their learning and maybe the snow they see outside. It's great for a take-home snow day activity.

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We've mentioned some fun letter alphabet crafts above, but this activity fosters fundamental skills that students will use for years to come. Focusing not only on letter-building skills, but this activity also encourages motor skills of cutting and gluing.

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Sensory bags, sensory bags, sensory bags! Your students will love playing with sensory bags in the classroom. They will especially love the colors of these sprinkles. Just add the sprinkles to a zip lock baggy and use it with stations or as a whole class activity!

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Salt painting is an impeccable way to enhance learners' letter recognition. Not only is it colorful and engaging, but also easy for students to practice letter shape! They will also love to take their creations home or see them hanging in the classroom.

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S is yet again for snake. An easy way to include motions and dance moves into your teaching. While also creative adorable letter crafts like these pipe-cleaner snakes. Use small or big beads depending on your child's skill level. Oh and don't forget the googly eyes!

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A challenging activity for preschoolers at home or in the classroom. Print and laminate the puzzle pieces for a station or for a whole group lesson with your kiddos.

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A simple activity using sounds, a piece of paper, and some glue that is sure to keep your students engaged and your classroom decorated!

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An all-time teacher and student favorite is hands-down coloring. Take a look at these adorable letter S coloring sheets that your students will love!

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12. Snowman Shapes Activity

Fostering shapes recognition is a phenomenal way of teaching and preparing your kiddos for kindergarten. Using something like play-doh to practice these skills will keep your kids engaged. Use shape cards to give students a guide.

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A super simple activity using just a cotton swab, paint, and paper - this will not only have students practicing their letter S building but also will genuinely foster their fine motor skills.

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Based on your students' skills level, this is a great activity for preschoolers. Assess their motor skills with a glue and shape activity like this.

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Tissue paper practice is super fun because your students will LOVE crunching the little balls. Just outline the letter in glue and let your students do the rest.

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A super adorable letter S activity that your students will love to create. Tie this in with an under the sea or ocean theme to foster a cross-curriculum agenda!

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Letter S activities for preschool

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Looking for letter S activities for preschool? We love choosing from our giant set of alphabet activities each week.

I’ve been doing Letter of the Week activities with my 3-year-old for a few months now. Thanks to our many whole alphabet activities, he recognizes all the letters and knows most of his sounds. But we keep follow this structure because it helps me find fun, meaningful ways to do fine motor activities, sensory play, process art, and so much more. Take a peek at our week!

(Update: I published this post years ago when my children were young. Now that I have more time, I’ve created a done-for-you alphabet curriculum perfect for preschool!)

Letter S Activities

For a sensory activity, we made play dough. He and his four siblings spent over an hour playing with our new play dough that we colored with crayons (get the recipe here!). To start him out, I gave him some craft stars to push in the play dough, to reinforce the sound of “s.” After that he was busy with cookie cutters and a plastic knife.

This was a great math and early literacy activity from Fun-a-Day! I printed the free spider counting book, and my son stamped spiders in each web using his thumb. After he counted them, I wrote the number on the line, and he “read” the sentence back to me. I put dots under each word so he could see that each piece of print equals one word.

We reinforced the sound of letter S with these free printable clip cards from Teaching Mama.

I put salt in a baking sheet, and he practiced writing S with his finger. This was a challenge for him (S is a hard letter!), so I was sure to snap a picture when he got it right.

Sliding beads on spaghetti is a classic fine motor activity, and perfect for Letter S week. You could turn this into a math activity by counting the beads or making patterns with them.

You wouldn’t believe how long he stayed busy writing with chalk on sandpaper! He loved slapping the sandpaper with his hand to see the chalk dust smear. Blowing across the sandpaper was fun too.

Whole alphabet activities are so important. He really loves these free letter sound parking lots that I shared on the blog last week.

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Have you read these books that feature the letter S? These are some of our favorites!

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More links and free printables for you

• Free letter S book (songs and rhymes)
• My Letter S Book (with photos)
• More letter S crafts
• More letter S books
• Ways to write letter S
• Letter hunt and find pages
• Letter sound coloring pages
• Letter sound worksheets

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