I covered a table with a blue tablecloth and set out shaving cream so the children could make their own clouds. Across the room, dyed pasta became a construction site, and cupcake tins and pom-poms became a bakery. Those were three of the 12 ways we played with Letter C in my preschool classroom.
1. Cat Letter Matching Sensory Bin
This week I changed the outdoor sensory bin to C for cat. The cat-themed alphabet set gave the children a playful way to match uppercase and lowercase letters. You can find the set here.
2. Cold Weather Sensory Bin
The theme here was cold. I threw this together last minute. We had plenty of stuff around the room to add to the bin.
- Cold weather clothes
- Blue rice
- Blue cotton balls
- Snowflakes
- Etc.
3. Construction Sensory Bin
This pasta filler is one of my FAVORITES I’ve created, however I only get to use it about twice a year 😂. I grabbed a variety of pastas that I thought resembled construction tools, and then colored them orange, brown, black, gray, and yellow. I just love seeing AND hearing these in the class.
- Construction filler
- Sand
- Stones
- Construction toys
- Etc.
4. Cupcake Sensory Bin
Sometimes, I scratch an original thought I had because I don’t like it any more and come up with something on the spot. This was one of those days. Not my best work, but the kids seem to love these the most 😂
- Cupcake tins
- Colored rice
- Large pompoms
- Utensils
- Etc.
5. Shaving Cream Clouds
- Shaving cream
- Blue table cloth
- Free label/chart
I used the tallest can of shaving cream from the dollar tree with the blue lid. Make sure it is NOT the gel kind! You can easily create this label on Canva.com. Tape your labels around your shaving cream can, place your blue table cloth on the table for easy clean up, and display your cloud chart. Discuss the types of clouds and have kids create them on the table!
6. Chicken Life Cycle
I might be a TAD obsessed with life cycle pasta sorting 😂. I just love this activity so much! Have kids sort the pasta life cycle using these super cute sorting cards/charts here.
- Chicken life cycle sorting cards
- Dried pasta
⭐️Full assembly and directions are in the download.
Printable update: The photos below show an earlier version of this resource. I’ve updated the Chicken Life Cycle printable since this post was first published, so the current download looks different.
7. Construction Scavenger Hunt
Okay… I know I’ve said this about the past few activities…but I also LOVE this new scavenger hunt line I have created! There are pages from A-Z for printable scavenger hunts!
- Letter C Scavenger hunt from A-Z scavenger hunt
- Construction pasta
- Dishes/Trays
Fill a dish/tray with filler of your choice. Hide the polaroids inside and have kids find them, match them and mark them off! You can also hide the polaroids around the class/outdoors and have them mark off the images they find.
8. Connect the Colors
Okay, you guess it…this is also a favorite 😂. What can I say? I picked all of my favorites this week! These worksheets are from the series Back to Basics, and it’s All about colors. There are 100 pages total, and work great for a busy binder, review/prep, and assessment. Have kids identify which color they need to connect and use the correct color to connect the dots. There are 3 lines on each page: 3 dots. 4 dots, and 5 dots.
9. Car Color Matching
10. Cold Weather Dramatic Play
11. Construction Dramatic Play
12. Cowboy Dramatic Play
Continue Letter C Learning
Read Catch a Cactus With C from my ABC Discovery series at circle time. Listen for the /k/ sound in catch and cactus, then see which other C words the children remember from their play.
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