Letter L/Lorax Preschool Theme

Today we talked about the letter L and "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss!

We enjoyed reading the book and plan to watch The Lorax Movie this afternoon.

Here is a cute finger puppet.  There are several Lorax printables at this link.

 My son has had a lot of fun with this finger puppet.

This is a fun mustache that my son painted.

 I taped a straw to it after the paint dried and he has had fun pretending to be the Lorax with it.

2 Teaching Mommies has an entire Lorax Printable Pack that we used.

Since we were focusing on the letter L my son had fun practicing writing the letter L on our lined white board.

This is a real cute Lorax.  My son had a lot of fun painting him.

 Since we are focusing on the letter L with the Lorax I cut out an L and my son glued pom-poms onto the L to make them look like truffula trees and drew trunks on it.  Then we took the Lorax he had painted and glued together and glued it and the letter L onto some construction paper.

Here is a link to even more Lorax Crafts.

You can also check out what we did in 2012 here.

Also check out this site and this site for some Lorax games online.

Letter L/Ladybug Preschool Theme

Today we talked about the letter L and ladybugs.  Here is the link to the printable pack for this theme.  

We did letter L things on Starfall's site.  

There are some great songs, fingerplays, and books about ladybugs out there. I came across these cute stick puppets that have words to songs that I put together to do with my son since he has loved the other stick puppets we have made.

A couple of our favorite books about ladybugs are "Five Little Ladybugs" by Melanie Gerth and "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle.

For a little craft I had my son paint a paper plate red and another one black.

When the paint dried he drew dots on it with a black marker and I cut it in half.  I think it'd also be cute to paint the top of their fingertip and have them dot the ladybug that way too.  Then I attached a brad to all three paper plates so it looked like a ladybug. I cut out a half circle for him to glue on top for the head and we added some pipe cleaner for the antennae.  I didn't have any black, but my son thought the orange was a good color to use instead.  I think it turned out pretty cute.

My son has also been enjoying Sesame Street letter activities so we found some letter L things on that website as well.