A is for Alligator-Movement Game

This is a good game to go outside and play, or if it is to cold go play in a gym or a room with lots of space. It is recommended that children get 60 minuets of exercise a day. This is a great way for them to get some exercise and it ties in well with your letter A lessons.

Pick one child, or teacher/care giver to be the alligator.You can designated this by letting the kid wear the alligator hat talked about in the last post if you would like to.  The other children will be fishes, or monkeys, or things that start with A like apes, apples, or ants. Designate a spot to be the swamp, or jungle, or whatever you want to call it.

The children will stay in this spot. Be sure that it gives them enough room to walk quickly without going all over the playground. The Alligator moves with his hands in front, moving his arms up and down like an alligator closing and opening his mouth. The other kids can move like whatever you designated them to be they try to get away from the alligator.

The Alligator gently touches the other kids, turning them to alligators when they get touched. In the end you should have all alligators in your swamp.

A is for Alligator- Alligator hats

Here is a craft you can do for an A is for alligator theme, or 5 little monkeys, jungle. any where you might need an alligator. First get some construction paper, and cut it into thick strips. Staple, or glue the strips together, until it is big enough that it will fit around your child's head.


Next cut two half circles out of green construction paper or use the template shown here.

Fold one of the half circles an inch from the edge and glue it from where it is folded to the other half circle.

Let your children decorate the alligator if they wish to. Draw eyes teeth nose, or you can use the template below and paste it on.

Glue, or staple the back of the alligator to the child's head band. Now you have an alligator hat. look at your ferocious Alligator.

She didn't want to decorate hers. It will look more like an alligator if you decorate it.Still she refused to take it off all day. She loved it and your kids will to. 

A is for apple.

It's time to get crafty and learn about A. First I cut out some large A's out of cardboard. There was a sale on Christmas stuff in a store next to me, so I bought a bunch of those white cardboard tee shirt boxes for cheap, but if you do not have cardboard then printer paper, sketch paper, any type of paper you have lying around will do.  Just cut the A big enough for the children to be able to paint on it.

Next you cut an apple in half. This will be the children's paint brush for today.

Then lay newspaper or a table cloth, anything that you don't mind getting a little dirty and put it over a table. Squeeze out a little bit of red finger paint, or tempera paint on a paper plate, or directly on the newspaper if you want.

Give a child the large A, and show them how to push the apple down in the red paint and then on there A.  Then let them paint with the apple. They can stamp it, or use it like a brush, theirs no wrong way.

This activity is designed to help them recognize the letter A, and how it is written. As well as give them a word that A starts with, Apple.

Below are some pictures of our A is for Apple project.

Letter A Worksheets

To start off learning about the letter A. I have made some worksheets to help you out. Just copy the pictures and print it off on your computer.

First is an A tracer page to help children learn to write the Letter A.

Next is a letter A worksheet to help children identfiy what words start with A

This is the same worksheet but with only letters instead of pictures.

This is a sheet to learn numbers up to five with A words.

The last worksheet is to help recognize upper case and lower case A

That is all of them.I hope that you enjoy them, and have fun learning about A.