Z is the End of the Alphabet Party!

We’ve reached the end of the alphabet and today we got to party!

• Sing the ABC song … Clap or jump up high when you get to Z!

 

• Read “The Z Was Zapped” by Chris VanAllsburg … available here.

Kipper's A to Z

Dr. Seuss's ABC

A to Z

• Read several other A-Z books … we alternated reading a book with an activity.

• ABC Banner (& a game, of course) … every party needs a banner. My kids loved this.
  1. Print the ABCs on colorful cardstock.
     • NOTE: if you want to print the banner we made, just click here and put 8 pages of cardstock in your printer in this order: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue (Y and Z will print on their own page.)
     • Cut the bottom 1” off each page, then cut in half horizontally and vertically. Make sense?!
  2. Scatter the letter cards around the room.
  3. String a ribbon across the room (for your banner).
  4. Have the kids take turns finding the letters in alphabetical order.
  5. As they find the letters, attach them to your party banner! I just use paper clips. Works great! You could also use clothespins with matching ABCs written on them!

 

• Play ABC Bingo!
  1. Print out a blank 5x6 grid. Click here to print the card we used.
  2. Use ABC stickers and have the kids stick one letter in each square. We put star stickers in the four extra squares. You could also just write one letter in each square.
  3. Let them reach into a bag of magnet letters and call out the letter they picked.
  4. Mark the squares with small treats, dot markers, stickers, anything!

• ABC Treasure Hunt … every party needs a treasure hunt
  1. Make simple clues for each letter A to Z.
  2. I used letter stickers on the clue cards to emphasize each letter. They couldn’t read the clues, but they knew which letter we were on!
  3. Hide them all around the house!
  4. For our treasure, I got the kids some fun activity sticker books (Wal-Mart $1.00) and other summer-y things (chalk, playground balls).

 

• Make ABC cookies … we spent yesterday making a mess cookies and got to eat them today!
  1. Use your favorite sugar cookie recipe.
  2. Roll out and cut with ABC cookie cutters. We’ve had these forever, there are some similar ones here.
  3. Bake & frost!

• Watch “LeapFrog: Letter Factory” … one of my very favorite preschool DVDs from Leap Frog.

My 4-year-old already asked if we can start on Number preschool and Shape preschool since we’re done with the alphabet. Whew! I’d better get a move on to keep up with these guys I do have several summer activities planned and I’ll post them as we get them done. I’ll definitely be taking things a little slower though. Enjoy your summer!