G is for Goat Letter of the Week Craft

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Letter of the week crafts for preschoolers is a super fun way to teach your little one the alphabet at home.

If you’re doing preschool at home, these ideas are easy for anyone to create with their preschooler and create memories that will last forever!

Let me show you how easy it is to make this g is for goat.

Doing hands on activities like this with preschoolers and young learners as you are introducing a new letter of the alphabet is fun, builds fine motor skill and helps them make a connect and association with letters.

Let us show you how easy this is to create.

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You will need:

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Letter of the Week Craft Step by Step Tutorial:

1. Flip the G over and apply glue to the back.

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2. Glue the G to the center of the paper so that there is space above and below it.

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3. Glue on the nose.  Be sure to leave space below it for the mouth.

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4. With the black marker, draw a long line from the nose and add a smile.

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5. Add the beard.  You can see that my two-year-old’s drawing of a mouth is much different than my four-year-old’s. 🙂

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6. Attach the goat’s horns.

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7. Now add the ear.

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8. Finally, give the goat some hooves.

And here is what they look like by age of the artist.

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Super fun!

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ACTION RHYME FOR LETTER G: 

Here are Grandma’s glasses.  (make circles with thumb and index finger and hold up to face like eyeglasses)
Here is Grandma’s hat. (make a triangle on head with hands)
This is the way she folds her hands (fold hands)
And lays them in her lap. (set hands in lap)

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SONG FOR LETTER G:

“Galumph!” went the little green frog one day.
“Galumph!” went the little green frog.
“Galumph!” went the little green frog one day,
And his eyes went “blink, blink, blink!”

BOOKS TO READ FOR LETTER G:

grumpy-goat

Grumpy Goat, by Brett Helquist

I just love when I find a book that fits in perfectly with the craft!  This is a new book (published 2013) about a friendly little farm with a new resident: a grumpy goat. Goat has never had friends and chases away any animals who try to get close to him.  But one day he discovers a dandelion alone in the grass.  He trims the grass, waters the flower, and begins to enjoy the company of the other animals.  But one day the dandelion turns gray, and a breeze blows it away.  Goat is devastated.  Until… can you guess the ending?

George-and-Martha

George and Martha books, by James Marshall

If you’ve never read the George and Martha hippo books, please reserve them from your library before you leave the computer!  This series of books is the kind I’d read even  if my kids weren’t around.   The stories are funny, the chapters short and the pictures hilarious.  Highly recommended!

GoldilocksMarshall

Goldilocks and the Three Bears, by James Marshall

We love James Marshall’s versions of the classic fairy tales.  Here’s a line: “To tell the truth, Goldilocks was one of those naughty little girls who do whatever they please.”  Marshall’s one-of-a-kind illustrations and lines like this one make the fairy tale seem new. My kids ask for it again and again.

17 Comments

  1. Thanks so much for this! this is so cute! love it! been looking for a fun way to get my 2 yr old to start learning about letters!

  2. Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents says:

    Making this tomorrow – super pumped…even though I had to draw the ear out myself because it wasn’t on the template. Wait, what? I’m 32 and should be able to draw an ear? 😉

    1. Ack. There is no ear on the tutorial? Let me look into it. 🙂

      1. Stacy @Stacy Makes Cents says:

        Okay, so as you saw, I manned up and was able to draw an ear. I felt accomplished. I ate a cookie.

  3. Super cute. Great job by all the kids on making their goats 😉

    Renae

  4. This is fantastic! You always have the best letter of the week crafts!
    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

  5. Lynette Tucker says:

    thank you for your craft ideas, and the fact that you have a pattern, awesome!!

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