Letter development is so important at the preschool level. Students love to learn their letters and will be so excited by the creative lessons you have planned! Alphabet activities are far and few between in the preschool classroom. From A all the way to Z, teachers are always searching for engaging activities.
We’ve put together an incredible list that is full of activities your students will love. Make an alphabet activity pack or use them individually. Totally up to you, but enjoy these 20 activities all about the letter L. Check out all of these great letter L activities!
1. L is for LadyBug
A book source or video about ladybugs will be a perfect intro for this activity. Students will love using background knowledge and exploring with this wonderful hands-on learning activity all about ladybugs and L’s!
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2. Leaf Walk and Paste
Letter activities like this include nature and learning together! Take your kiddos outside and collect some leaves, teach about the ‘L’ sounds while collecting. Enjoy the nature walk and then come back to this great motor activity.
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3. Lacing L’s
L is for lacing will be such an excellent activity for little hands. Keeping them engaged throughout an entire lesson. As simple as just using a piece of cardboard, paper, and a string!
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4. Ladybugs and Lighthouses
Upper-case and lower-case identification are very difficult for some students to grasp. With a fun, hands-on activity like this students will love to decorate, develop visualization skills, and of course show off their projects.
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5. L is for Lions
This lion craft will have students super excited to learn about the letter L. Students will love practicing their cutting, gluing, and coloring skills.
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6. Wall of Lollis
An activity for kids and for some classroom decoration this coloring or painting activity can be used in any home or preschool environment!
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7. Dig For L’s
Digging for L’s. Kids absolutely love rice buckets. Keep these in the classroom and work with kids to identify letters. A great way to assess students’ knowledge and letter recognition is by asking questions while they’re searching.
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8. Trace the L, Trace the Lips
L is for lips. Your little ones will love this printable activity where you’ll challenge them to practice their handwriting skills by tracing out the letter “L” in both lowercase and uppercase forms. Once they’ve mastered the letter “L”, you can amp up the difficulty by encouraging them to trace and write out the word “Lip”.
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9. More Ladybugs
Dot activities are super cute and fun for students! They will have so much fun using the bingo marker to recognize and work with the L’s they will also love picking and using their favorite colors.
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10. Light it Up!
A favorite activity bringing holiday vibes during any time of the year. This activity will be fun for students to put sounds from words to images.
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11. Color L
Identifying L’s in a plethora of other letters is exciting for students. It is also a great assessment tool for teachers. Assessing students’ knowledge and understanding of the letters is super important. Use this great printout for just that.
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12. Coloring L’s
An assessment sheet to see what level your students are on at the end of an L unit. This can be a bit challenging for Preschool, but very rewarding to assess your students.
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13. Painted Lollis
This fun hands-on activity will be great for tye dying! Using drops of food coloring or watercolors is a perfect way to dye students lollipops just like this.
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14. L is for Lion – Fork is for Fun
Color lions are super exciting for students. Using a fork and some colorful paint have students make their lion’s mane!
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15. Ladybug Crafts
As we’ve said before ladybugs make great learning tools for the letter L. Found in a variety of storybooks, ladybugs also come with so many activity ideas! Using paper and streamers students will love to make these cute crafts. They will also look great in your classroom!
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16. L is for Loopy Lions
Start this craft with a book about real lions and maybe make some lion sounds. Have students cut and paste their own pictures and then glue the macaroni for a little extra addition to their manes!
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17. Macaroni Outlines
Print out an L outline upper-case or lower-case and have students glue their macaroni into the outline. They will love to play with the macaroni and will also love to show off their work.
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18. Color By L’s
This is a little bit of a more challenging activity for students but will help with their letter recognition. This is asses both their letter recognition and searching skills.
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19. Build an L
Motor skills that students will love to work on! It’s never easy to build letters out of toothpicks and marshmallows, but this stem activity will be great for students’ hand-eye coordination.
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20. Leopard Plate
This leopard plate can go along with some really amazing stories and videos. Students will love to learn about leopards as they are learning about L’s. They also will absolutely love to make this fun felt activity. Cut out a big felt board and have a classroom wall filled with different L-themed creatures.
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