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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

Instructions for Assembling Your Letter A Craft

  1. Print the A Is for Alligator Craft templates.
  2. Cut out the templates and trace the letter A and the alligator head and teeth onto card stock.
  3. Cut out the letter A and alligator pieces.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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Ruenaroales

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

Robin E.

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

Teressa

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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!

Robin E.

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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

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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!

Robin E.

says: Customer Service

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

Katie

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What is the letter u animal and I?

Robin E.

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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

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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

Robin E.

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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

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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 :)

Robin E.

says: Customer Service

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

Debbie

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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!

Robin E.

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

Darla

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

Robin E.

says: Customer Service

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

gabriela

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CHEVERE

Lynn Bailey

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Thank you this looks like a fun craftivity to do.

Deborah

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

Robin E.

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Thank you, Deborah!

Stacy

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Love the simple crafts!

Kelly Z

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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.

Robin E.

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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

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Just made these with my kid and nephews.

Napua Hayward

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Thanks for the fun learning with the alphabet crafts!

Robin E.

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

Yolanda

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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!!

Robin E.

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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

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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.

Robin E.

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

Barbara

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

Robin E.

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

Kathryn Taylor

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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.

Jacquelyn

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My girls loved this activity so much!

Merry

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I’m so glad, Jacquelyn!

Shelley

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So cute!

Corrine H

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My son loves this! What a fun way to learn the letters.

Ann

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These are so fun for lower elementary!!

Erica Weil

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I love this program so much!!!

Kate

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These are such fun letter characters.

Janell

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This is so stinking’ cute. Wish I still had littles to do it with.

Robin E.

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Janell,
Maybe you could borrow a little one? :D

I have shared these crafts with my friends that do have little ones, so at least I can live vicariously through them.

Lana

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good idea!

Andrea

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What a memorable way to learn your letters! Thanks!!!!

Merry

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You’re welcome; enjoy!

Teressa Gomez

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Can’t wait to try this!

Teressa

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Can’t wait to try this!