Letter development for preschool-age children is extremely important for both motor skills and letter recognition. Throughout the year teachers are constantly looking for creative ways to teach these letters and keep our little minds engaged and excited. We've researched creative learning activities and came up with a list of 20 letter activities for the letter M to bring into your preschool classroom. Make an alphabet activity pack or use them individually. Totally up to you, but either way, enjoy these 20 activities all about the letter M.
1. Mud Tracing
M is for mud. What kid doesn't like playing the mud? Head outside and play in nature for a bit with this fun activity OR use brown paint pretending that it's mud. Your students will love getting their hands dirty while tracing this letter shape.
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2. M is For Mice
This super cute activity will be great for students to practice their pre-writing skills. Using pom poms, students will enhance their letter-building skills by working with the structure of the M's, and also students will enjoy the cute little mice.
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3. Play-Doh M's
Along with most letters, play-doh can make a great letter M activity. Whether you're using centers or whole group, play-doh can help bring the letter to life.
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4. M Drawings
Monster creations are so much fun for students. After watching a video or reading a story about monsters, have students create their own! Print out an outline or let them use their own imaginations with construction paper and some scissors!
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5. M is For Macaroni
An all-time favorite activity for young minds is macaroni art! Using things they love while building letters can help them to stay engaged and keep talking about the activity!
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6. M is For Monkey
M is for mice, another mice activity. Letter sheets are fun to have hung around the classroom. Especially when they are student art. This will be a great activity and also can be used with a story!
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7. M is For Mountain
Variety of letter use is important in the development of letter recognition. Using different stories and background knowledge will help students to make connections. A mountain activity like this will make a fun connection to the environment!
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8. M Buckets
M buckets are a great way to engage students in learning and associating their letters. Buckets for all the alphabet letters can be left out in the classroom for students to play with and talk about with each other, with you, or even with parents!
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9. M is For Monkey
Students love monkeys!! This engaging motor activity might be a bit challenging for students, but once they get the monkeys in the right spot they'll be so excited to share!
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10. M is For Maze
Tracing inside a bubble letter like this upper-case and lower-case m will help to enhance students letter building skills. It can be used as an extra activity or as an assessment.
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11. Letter M is Tracing
A great worksheet to practice handwriting skills! Students will love to show off how skilled they are at tracing their upper-case and lower-case m's.
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12. Sensory Tray Tracing
Rice buckets are part of a very popular alphabet curriculum in Preschool. Students will be so excited to be able to play in the rice sensory bucket! Have them develop and practice their handwriting skills in this creative, hands-on letter activity.
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13. Clay Letters
Including and fostering STEM skills in the lower grades is super important. Using clay in the classroom to help kids build their letters will help them to better understand letter shape and overall structure.
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14. Shaving Cream Practice
Shaving cream is a popular way to practice writing alphabet letters! Students will love this messy activity and will be engaged when writing and working with their letters.
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15. Writing With Yarn
This activity is a great use of motor skills and letter drawing. Enhance your students learning skills with this yarn activity. Have them first trace or draw the letters with crayons and then outline in yarn! Students will have so much with the challenge of this activity.
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16. Circle Dot Tracing
Color coding letters can be super fun for students! They all LOVE stickers and this is a great way to let them use what they love but still be practicing their pre-writing skills.
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17. M is For Moose
M is for moose. Another great decoration to add to your classroom. Make it with your students or use it along with a story. Students will love seeing their hands around the classroom.
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18. M is For Mustache
If you base your lessons off a week curriculum, this funny and exciting activity will be great for some Friday fun! Building an M out of popsicle sticks and gluing the mustache on will be very engaging!
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19. M is For Mittens
Building letter recognition is super important for your students. Students will draw the letter in glue and then stick gems, sparkles, or anything really they want on their cute little mittens!
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20. M is For Mighty Magnets
KIDS LOVE MAGNETS. You could intertwine this lesson with the science curriculum. Have some students safely use magnets and then practice their alphabet letters with a picture like this!
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