A is for Ant – Animal Alphabet Craft for Toddlers
Learning to read begins with toddlers learning their ABC’s and starting to recognise the beginning letter sounds of words. We are kicking off a series of letter crafts for toddlers that work on fun Animal Themed Alphabet pages that you and they can put together. Starting off our series is a is for ant and this simple page that can be made on a construction paper booklet.
Inspired by seeing the ants at the zoo we decided A we would focus on the animal ANTS. Ant is a great word to use for the letter “a” as the a in the word makes the a sound that they will be introduced to as they learn to read in preschool and school.
Materials Needed for this Simple “a” is for Ant Craft for Toddlers
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Green and Black Construction Paper
Check out these other fun ways to learn the alphabet with our Fun and Simple Alphabet Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers.
How to make this A Craft for Toddlers
- On the large piece of construction paper draw a letter a as an outline. You could produce a second “page” which you have for the letter A as well helping your toddler to see the different ways that a can be drawn.
- From another piece of paper, either the same or different colour cut out a letter a that your toddler can then glue onto the a on the “page” of their letter book.
- With your green paper cut out a selection of different leaves – if you want to get a little more creative you could make these from leaf sponge stamps that you paint, print and then let dry and cut out.
- Let your toddler glue the leaves and stick around the letter a. It’s a good opportunity to trace around the letter the way that you would write the letter.
- Using black paper cut out some ant shapes – 3 body parts of different sizes.
- Help your toddler to glue these on to the page.
- Now add some legs – we counted out 6 legs on each ant.
- Then my toddlers fun part – adding the googly eyes.
Once the page is dry add in the Aa and the word ant to help them identify the letters as you flip through the alphabet book that we are making at a later date.
More Animal Alphabet Crafts for Toddlers
The next letter in the alphabet “B” and our animal letter craft for toddler – B is for Bird
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Love this! We did ‘A is for Apple’ with red stickers for the round bit and a brown stalk.
Adorable! I especially love the googly eye ants 🙂
Yes, we’ve done it again Cerys. Ants, Ants, Ants are the theme this week! I love how you had him glue paper onto the letter and the little ants on it! I’m sure he’ll love to do some of the activities I shared too, he will LOVE the egg carton ant craft. HAVE FUN! http://www.theeducatorsspinonit.blogspot.com/2012/04/hands-on-fun-learning-with-ant-egg.html
Cute idea! We are going to start doing a letter a week activities in June because I feel like I’ve terribly neglected my youngest and it’s time he became more familiar with the alphabet. Plus, it’s time for my daughter to start reading. I figure we can get through all the letters by the end of the year and learn some sight words at the same time!
Brilliant idea, he is so good with his art work and really enjoys it.