Lowercase Letter P Craft for Preschool Kids
Bright colors and the ability to talk make parrots a favorite with all generations! Children love these feisty little birds and will be captivated by our parrot craft. Transform the little p into an adorable parrot in this Lowercase Letter P Craft with your preschool children.
Follow our simple instructions to help your child learn the shape and sound of the letter P. Forming a picture out of a letter’s shape helps cement the shape in a child’s mind. As you make the craft, practice the letter sound to help your student begin to associate the sound with the letter’s shape. Once you’ve finished making this one, be sure to follow up with our uppercase letter P craft in a few days.
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Introduce the Letter P
I like to read a book together with my child right before we make a letter craft, to introduce the letter. Our Letter P Book List for Preschool has some beautiful parrot picture books to read! As you read the title, point to the words that begin with P and point to the actual letter P. Emphasize the sound in the title. Emphasize the P words throughout the book.
You can also introduce the letter by collecting a variety of toys that begin with the letter p sound from your child’s toy box and naming each toy together, emphasizing the beginning sound. Some toys that begin with P include plastic animals such as penguins or parrots, purple or pink items (talk about the color), prince or princess toys, Little People, purses, pirates, or LEGO® pants from Minifigs®.
Letter P Scavenger Hunt
Once you have the lowercase letter p craft, take your parrot on a hunt for things around your house that start with P. Help your child look in each room for something that begins with the P sound. You can make a goal to find one item per room, or just exhaust each room and find as many as you can. Pretend the parrot is joining you on this fun adventure! Not only does pretend begin with P, pretend play is an important developmental skill and a good thing to practice with your child.
Some items that begin with the P sound around my home include pillows, paper, pens, pencils, purple crayons, pink crayons, a pincushion and pins, puzzles and puzzle pieces, pie, pictures, plaques, placemats, and pork. Hopefully, this list will help you think and get you started. If you just don’t have enough items that begin with the letter p around your house, draw simple pictures on a dozen pieces of paper and hide those instead.
How To Teach the Shape of Letter P
You can add different activities to your day to help your child learn the shape of the letter P. Have your student trace the letter P when it is found in a book or on a flashcard. Use an app that teaches letter formation to have your child trace the letter. Draw the letter on a chalkboard and have your student erase it with a wet finger. You could also use a whiteboard and dry erase marker or a window with a dry erase marker. Use window chalk to write the letter P and have your child trace that once it dries. Put a big letter P on the floor with painter’s tape and have your child line up little cars or LEGO bricks® on the letter.
Materials for the Lowercase Letter P Craft
- red construction paper
- blue construction paper
- green construction paper
- yellow construction paper
- orange construction paper
- construction paper for the background (color of choice)
- googly eye
- glue
- scissors
- alternative – white paper and crayons
Instructions for the Lowercase Letter P Craft
- Draw the pieces as shown above with a thick marker. Then have your student follow these directions.
- Cut out a lowercase p and a long petal shape for a feather from the red paper.
- Next, cut a long petal shape from each of the blue, green, yellow and orange papers for the remaining feathers.
- Then cut out a beak from the orange paper.
- Next, glue down the p in the middle of the backing paper.
- Then glue down the beak on the far right of the p.
- Next, glue down all the long petal-shaped feathers on the left of the p, creating a fan as you go.
- Finally glue down the googly eye on the upper right of the p.