Letter F Activities – Letter Of The Week

Letter of the week is a great way to introduce a letter. While I don’t use the classic letter of the week system I have used one letter craft a week as the focus of crafting for ONE DAY. The rest of the week and even the rest of that day is for focusing on the alphabet as a whole, how letters work together, and in context.  I have already done this for A, B, C, D, and E and so I start this school year off with letter F activities. Of course, we also have our Alphabet Crafts eBook, and all our letter of the week crafts we’ve done previously as a resource as well. Remember to include the whole alphabet every day to keep learning in context, for that I have included some great alphabet books and activities below.

{Letter F Crafts }

Feather F – Fire F – Fish F – Flag F – Food F

{Crafts and Activities That Start With F }

Fire Trucks– Fireworks – Fish – Fishing Game – Flags– Flowers– Football – Frankenstein– Frogs

{Whole Alphabet Crafts and Activities}

Letter Dominoes – Letter Memory – On The Go Letter Search– Alphabet Sensory Tub

{Alphabet Books}

Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert is an alphabet book extraordinaire and perfect for a letter F week, since it’s all about food!  Wonderful paintings of fruits and vegetables seem ultra simple and it is but somehow the way the author has pieced this simple book together is brilliant. Maybe it’s that children learn about food at the table multiple times a day and feel proud being able to identify not only some of the letters but some of the pictures too! From a teaching standpoint, I love that there are both upper and lower case letters on each page! This book will grow with your child, and beware it will also make you hungry!

Alphabet Soup by Scott Gustafson is a treat! I read a lot of alphabet books and this one stands out for so many reasons. Otter is hosting a potluck and his animal friends are all bringing something to share. Each page is devoted to an animal with a coordinating food item and more. This book is reminiscent of Graham Base’s Animalia but much more toddler friendly. Where Animalia is great for older children because it’s so full of detail, this book brings it down a notch but still enchants you with stunning illustrations and fantastic coordinating text.

ABC USAby Martin Jarrie is another beautiful alphabet book!  Like most alphabet books it devotes a page to each letter with vibrant illustrations. Not everything in this book is by any means unique to the United States but most are. I specifically appreciated the I for Immigrants page, both from a historical and personal perspective, my son loved the J for Jazz and we both loved all the whimsical illustrations. There are a lot of learning opportunities presented as well, school-age children could really benefit from it as well the 2 letters that stood out for me for further learning were U for Underground Railroad and V for Valley Forge.  However you use this, it’s worth a look for certain.