1. Kangaroo Hop: Encourage children to hop like kangaroos to familiarize them with the animal that starts with K.
2. Kite Crafting: Create simple kites with craft paper, sticks, and string, then let children decorate them with markers.
3. Key Painting: Dip old keys into washable paint and press onto paper to create unique key designs.
4. K Sensory Bin: Fill a sensory bin with items starting with the letter K, such as keys, plastic kangaroos, and kitchen utensils.
5. Fire up your preschooler’s imagination as they act out being king or queen for a day and use “k” words in their pretend play.
6. Kiwi Taste-Test: Introduce kiwi as a tasty snack and discuss how it begins with the letter K.
7. Kingdom Construction: Use blocks or other materials to create kingdoms for the students’ kings and queens.
8. Koala Bear Coloring Page: Provide coloring pages of koalas, allowing children to familiarize themselves with another “K” animal.
9. Letter K Hunt: Hide foam letter Ks around the room and have children search for them.
10. Kiss Relay: Have children blow paper “kisses” through straws in a relay race to practice teamwork while thinking about the initial sound in “kiss.”
11. Kitchen Play Stations: Set up play kitchens for children to explore and use vocabulary words beginning with the letter K.
12. Alphabet Sort: Mix up letters A-K on a table or mat and have children separate out the letter K from others.
13. Writing Practice: Teach preschoolers how to write uppercase and lowercase letter K using whiteboards or worksheets.
14. Show-and-Tell: Have children bring in items from home that start with the letter K for show-and-tell time.
15. Counting Keys: Use old keys to practice counting and simple math activities.
16. K Hand-sign: Teach children the sign for the letter K in American Sign Language as another way to reinforce letter recognition.
17. K Word Wall: Create a word wall with pictures of words that start with the letter K, such as kitten, kite, and key.
18. Karaoke Party: Organize a mini karaoke party in class where students sing familiar songs and emphasize any words in the song that begin with the letter K.
19. Arrange a field trip to visit a nearby zoo and observe kangaroos or other animals whose names start with “k.”
20. Keen Koala Game: Set up an obstacle course for kids to go through while acting like koalas, teaching them to be “keen” observers of their environment.
These 20 Letter K activities will provide hours of fun for preschool children while aiding in their learning and development of literacy skills associated with letter recognition, phonics, and vocabulary building.
