A Is for Alligator Craft

This ABC Crafts letter-of-the-week animal may have a mouthful of sharp teeth, but he’s still pretty cute. Your little one will love learning the letter A with our A Is for Alligator craft!

Here’s What You’ll Need

2 sheets of printer paper
Card stock (we used purple, green, and white)

A Is for Alligator Craft templates
2 “googly” eyes
Glue stick
Pencil and scissors

Instructions for Assembling Your Letter A Craft

Print the A Is for Alligator Craft templates.
Cut out the templates and trace the letter A and the alligator head and teeth onto card stock.
Cut out the letter A and alligator pieces.
Glue the letter A and alligator pieces onto a full sheet of card stock (we used purple, but you can use any color you like) to form a wide-mouthed alligator.
Glue 2 googly eyes to the alligator’s head piece.

2 children gluing pieces for the letter A craft

Little girl assembling her letter a craft

two children gluing teeth onto letter A alligator craft

Learning with Your Letter A Craft

As you and your child assemble your A Is for Alligator Craft, practice saying /ă/–/ă/–alligator together. You can find more tips for working on pre-reading skills with your preschooler in this handy download.

Little boy holding his finished letter A Alligator craft

We would LOVE to see how your ABC Crafts turn out! Please share your photos with us on our Facebook page, or tag your Instagram photos with the hashtag #allaboutABCcrafts!

children holding their finished A Is for Alligator Craft

Want More ABC Crafts?

page spread from the abc crafts uppercase series download

Free Uppercase ABC Letter Crafts

For crafts that start with uppercase letters A through Z, get the complete printable set of ABC Craft for Uppercase Letters.

page spread from the abc crafts lowercase series download

Free Lowercase ABC Letter Crafts

For crafts that start with lowercase letters A through Z, get the complete printable set of ABC Craft for Lowercase Letters.

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Pritpal Kaur

says:

April 19, 2024 at 4:12 am

Please I want the ABC craft for Upper and lowercase letters

Robin

says: Customer Service

April 19, 2024 at 9:55 am

Pritpal,
Here is the link for the Uppercase ABC Crafts and the link for the Lowercase ABC Crafts.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Ruenaroales

April 12, 2022 at 11:10 am

Thank you so much. This is really helpful. Great work.

Robin E.

April 13, 2022 at 3:24 pm

You’re welcome! I’m glad this is so helpful for you.

Teressa

August 16, 2021 at 12:26 pm

Can these be used in a group setting? My sister-in-law is teaching a small group of kids at her job (children of those who work with her) in a circle time setting. My son enjoyed these when he was learning his letters :-). Please let me know. Thanks!

August 16, 2021 at 8:53 pm

Teressa,
Yes! There has been a number of schools and daycare programs that have put these ABC craft activities to great use in their groups!

Mariah

June 9, 2021 at 9:24 pm

Thank you for these crafts! My kids love cutting and pasting more than coloring. And this is perfect mix to teach the letters with one and sounds with the other. Thank you for making it so easy!

June 12, 2021 at 4:06 pm

You’re so welcome, Mariah! My kids loved more crafty stuff than simple coloring too, so I understand.

Katie

September 14, 2020 at 1:37 pm

What is the letter u animal and I?

September 14, 2020 at 2:55 pm

Katie,
The capital U animal is an umbrellabird. They are native to Central and South American and are pretty interesting! The capital I animal craft is an inchworm, also an interesting animal.

Nessa

June 11, 2020 at 1:44 am

Thank you for making this available…I traced the letter from the template and I told him to paint and he loved every minute of the craft…he is so not in to colouring …thank you again

June 11, 2020 at 12:33 pm

Nessa,
I agree with your son; coloring is overrated but painting is wonderful. You’re welcome for this, and I’m pleased to hear it was enjoyed so well. ?

Kelsi

December 17, 2019 at 12:24 pm

My 3 year old loves doing these! We also cut out the little examples and feed them to the puppy cereal box we made from your free template. So now we feed it dog bones and animal letters :)

December 17, 2019 at 2:21 pm

What a great idea, Kelsi! Thanks for sharing this additional fun way to review.

Debbie

November 22, 2019 at 4:50 am

This is just what I was looking for to do with my 2 1/2 year old (Alex)! His 4 year old brother goes to preschool class, so Alex is becoming interested in letters and “homework” too. I will just glue down one side of the A, then use a brad paper fastener to make the mouth open and close. Hopefully that will work, and add some excitement for my little man. Thanks so much!

November 22, 2019 at 5:55 pm

I love your idea of making the alligator’s mouth be able to open and close, Debbie!

Darla

June 26, 2019 at 7:04 am

My almost three year old daughter is enjoying making these! They are great! Thank you for making them available.

June 27, 2019 at 9:31 am

You are so welcome, Darla! It’s wonderful to hear that your daughter is enjoying these crafts. Thank you.

gabriela

November 17, 2018 at 8:12 am

CHEVERE

Lynn Bailey

August 22, 2018 at 8:10 pm

Thank you this looks like a fun craftivity to do.

Deborah

August 22, 2018 at 11:51 am

I appreciate all the wonderful ideas and crafts on your website. i love the aligator craft.

August 22, 2018 at 6:24 pm

Thank you, Deborah!

Stacy

August 22, 2018 at 10:08 am

Love the simple crafts!

Kelly Z

December 1, 2017 at 9:25 pm

This is the first successful alphabet craft for my not very cooperative 4-year-old! My son is not very interested in coloring and when I look into fun activities to do with him they are either too involved, which doesn’t keep his interest, or not fun enough. Instead, he spent the rest of the day showing off his alligator and was so proud of having something he put together himself (except the cutting). With homeschooling 3 older kids requiring so much of my time it was nice to have something cute and finish able to do with my youngest.

December 4, 2017 at 1:09 pm

Kelly,
We are so pleased to know that this craft was such a positive experience for both your son and you! Thank you so much for sharing this. I will make sure those involved in developing these ABC animal crafts see your comment.

charlotte

October 14, 2017 at 7:29 pm

Just made these with my kid and nephews.

Napua Hayward

September 22, 2017 at 12:23 pm

Thanks for the fun learning with the alphabet crafts!

September 22, 2017 at 6:30 pm

You are welcome, Napua! I hope you enjoy them.

Yolanda

September 18, 2017 at 9:23 pm

I think these are adorable! With 6 kids(1 is a newborn) I just don’t do a ton of crafts but I know my younger guys will love making these! Thank you for all your hard work and generosity!!

September 19, 2017 at 10:08 am

Yolanda,
You are welcome.

In the blog post announcing these ABC animal crafts you will a master supply list for all 26 letters. That way busy moms like you can gather everything at once and not have to worry about what is needed for each week’s craft.

Dianne

September 16, 2017 at 6:46 am

I love the idea of these letter crafts. My soon to be 9 year old son loves letters and always has. I was thinking this would be a great fine motor skill craft that we can use to display in our family room for his birthday party’s decorations.

September 16, 2017 at 5:57 pm

Dianne,
I think these ABC animal crafts would be great decorations!

Barbara

September 12, 2017 at 7:38 pm

My 2 (and 4!) year old loved this craft. Thanks for sharing! We look forward to making them all :)

September 12, 2017 at 9:38 pm

Barbara,
Thank you for letting us know your little ones enjoyed this craft!

Kathryn Taylor

September 5, 2017 at 5:34 pm

I am so looking forward to starting my daughter on the All About Reading Program. My two boys have done so wll with it (one of them is dyslexic) that I am excited to start her at the pre-reading level.