Letter Of The Week Books & Crafts

I have recently revisited the idea of letter of the week books and crafts, because my co-teacher and I have been discussing how what is touted as LOTW and how bad it is for kids, is not at all how we have used it in our classrooms over the years. We have always used and taught letters and their sounds in context, along with others. The thing about education is there is much more grey and nuance than there is black or white. If there is a place in your classroom for these letter-themed crafts that meet your students where they are at, awesome, use them! If there isn’t that’s rad too. I have used them, and presently I don’t because I teach the child in front of me more than anything, and use the strategies that suit them.

Letter of The Week crafts was one of our most popular series on No Time For Flash Cards, and one of my most frequently asked questions via email is for good books that can go with each letter craft we have. Instead of just throwing out a bunch of books whose subject start with one of the letters I have used books that are about the subject used for the craft. The letter is in context and real connections can be made. If you follow a letter of the week curriculum, remember to use these crafts as one part of it and focus on the whole alphabet most of the time using alphabet books and other whole alphabet activities. Each pair is linked to the original letter of the week craft and the book title is an affiliate link to Amazon.com .

Read The Lady with the Alligator Purse and make an alligator A.

Read Buzz and make a buzzy bee letter B craft.
Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and make a simple caterpillar C craft .
Read The Paper Bag Princess and make a letter D dragon craft.
Read First the Egg and then make a sweet Egg E craft.
Get patriotic and read Hats off for the Fourth of July then make a Flag F craft.
Read In the Tall, Tall Grass and then make a grass G letter craft.
Read My Heart Is Like a Zoo together and then create this letter H craft filled with hearts.
Read Ice Cream: The Full Scoop and then create your own Ice Cream I letter craft.
Read If You Were A Jellybean then create your own Jellybean J letter craft.
Read all about kites in Kite Flying then make your own Kite K craft to go with it.
Learn about leaves with Leaf Man then find your own and make this leaf L craft.
Go with Sally to the mountains in Sally Goes to the Mountains then make a Mountain M craft at home.
Count all sorts of things with Anno’s Counting Book and then talk and learn about numbers while making a number N.
Read Owl Babies and then make your own little owl O letter craft.
Read Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails and make your own peacock P!
Read Quilt Alphabet which is a perfect book for this letter Q craft.
You can read about planting a rainbow in Planting a Rainbow and then make your own letter R craft.
Read Draw Me a Star and then make your own sparkly star S letter craft.
Trees are rad and so is Pablo’s Tree , after reading it make your own tree T craft.
Go underground with Up Above and Down Below and then again with this Underground U letter craft.
Explore all the flowers in Zinnia’s Flower Garden and then make your own and pop them in this Vase V craft.
Count the seeds in One Watermelon Seed and then make your own Watermelon W letter craft being sure to count the seeds too.
Dem Bones isn’t just for Halloween it’s a great book year round and perfect for our X-ray X letter craft.
The classic color mixing story Little Blue and Little Yellow is a great fit for our Yellow Y letter of the week craft too.
On Beyond Zebra! is a natural fit for our Zebra Z craft !

Want more letter of the week crafts? Check out our full list here.

More letter recognition activities for preschoolers

Need more whole alphabet activities to round out your letter learning? Check out how I teach letter recognition in my class presently here, and how I teach letter sounds. Also, find fun independent alphabet activities here.