Lowercase Letter G Craft for Preschool

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Goats are tricky, adorable animals. If you’ve been to a petting zoo chances are good your child has encountered a good-natured goat and maybe even fed it a little food from a paper cup. Children are fascinated with animals, so transforming letters into animal shapes is a great way to teach letter recognition. Help your child create a goat with this lowercase letter g craft and together you will practice identifying the shape and sound of g.

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The Two Sounds of G

This lowercase craft focuses on the hard sound of g, as in goat, grape, gourd, or glue. Our uppercase letter g craft focuses on the soft sound of g — as in giraffe. Take a few minutes while you are working on the goat craft to talk about the two sounds of g and practice making each one. Come up with more words that begin with the sound of goat together.

Communication Skills for Preschool Kids

Help your child practice verbal communication skills while you work! Ask him or her to tell you a story about a goat. Maybe your child will come up with an original story about a goat, maybe he or she will describe an actual experience they’ve had with a goat, or maybe your child will re-tell a story about a goat they’ve heard before. Any of these responses is perfect!

Any time you can encourage your child to practice story telling or talk to you, you should do it! Communication skills begin developing in infancy and can be nourished just like any other skill.

After Craft Time: Extension Activities

Extension activities are anything that add learning experiences to your day. In this case you can add extension activities for goats *or* the letter g sound later in your day or throughout the week to build on today’s lesson. Avoid doing too many activities in one sitting, instead use your child’s attention span to your advantage. Sprinkle little learning activities throughout your day, mixed with free play and active play and nap time.

After you finish making your goat, read the Grumpy Goat and other goat books from this list of letter G picture books for preschool. You might also enjoy watching goats on Youtube together or playing with a set of little plastic goats. Each of these activities is a chance to help your child practice different skills, from listening to animal science, to pretend play.

Do you have old magazines lying around or stuffed in a closet? Sit with your child and look through magazines or books to find the letter g in words. This activity helps your child start to notice letters within words and increases letter recognition. Have your child cut out uppercase and lowercase g letters from the old magazines and glue them on a piece of construction paper to work on fine motor skills, scissor skills, and letter recognition even more.

Do you have a pantry? Open the doors and look for the letter g on cans, boxes and supplies. Garbanzo beans, grapes or grape juice, grape jelly, Grilling sauce or Grill spices, these are all things in my pantry with words that begin with the letter g. But, you don’t have to look for g only at the beginning of words. Help your child scan jars and boxes to find the letter g within words too.

Materials for the Lowercase Letter G Craft

The materials for this craft are pretty straightforward. You just need a few sheets of construction paper, scissors, glue, and googly eyes! Pull the materials out ahead of time and get your crafting area set up the way you like it before you bring your child to the table. This will be less stressful for both of you!

• brown construction paper
• yellow construction paper
• white construction paper
• construction paper for the background (color of choice)
• googly eyes
• glue
• scissors
• Alternative – While paper and crayons

Directions for the Lowercase Letter G Craft

Have your child follow these instructions for the craft project. I recommend you draw the various pieces onto construction paper with a thick marker to give your child a line to follow with the scissors. You can also show your child the finished craft image so they can have an idea what they are making.

1. Cut out a lowercase g in the brown paper.
2. Then cut out a triangle from the white paper for the beard.
3. Next glue down the g in the middle of the paper.
4. Then, glue down the 2 horns on the top of the g.
5. Next glue down the beard.
6. Finally glue down the google eyes of your goat.