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Take the sting out of learning letters with this week’s ABC Craft! But watch out–our jellyfish will wrap her pretty pink tentacles right around your heart!
As you and your child assemble your J Is for Jellyfish Craft, practice saying /j/–/j/–jellyfish together. You can find more tips for working on pre-reading skills with your preschooler in this handy download.
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!
For crafts that start with uppercase letters A through Z, get the complete printable set of ABC Craft for Uppercase Letters.
For crafts that start with lowercase letters A through Z, get the complete printable set of ABC Craft for Lowercase Letters.
Shannon
says:Cute idea!!
Renee
says:My kids love the Crafts we do with their AAR levels!
Stella K
says:This is such a fun idea! I can’t wait to do this with my kids.
Falon
says:I am so thankful to have found this site with all these awesome resources. They have definately helped us through our first year of homeschooling!
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceFalon,
We are so pleased to hear that we have been able to help you in your first year of homeschooling! Thank you for letting us know.
Lorain
says:I love this letter craft.!!
Dan
says:Glad I found this site!
Michelle
says:My daughter and her friend are doing your alphabet crafts together each week. They love it! Thank you for such a cute resource!
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceMichelle,
I think doing these each week with friends would make it especially fun! Great idea!
Cynthia McNeil
says:This is the best site ever!!!!
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceAwww, thank you, Cynthia!
Lindsay
says:Great idea! We are planning to start preschool at home with my little girl and this would be a great introduction to letters :)
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceLindsay,
Enjoy preschool with your little girl! It is such a fun period of learning.
Anne
says:This looks fun!
Courtney
says:So cute! My girls would love to make a this jellyfish craft :)
Shelley
says:Cute!
Teresa Brown
says:This looks like so much fun. I love the letter makes a jellyfish. I know the children will love this.
Carrie
says:Fun and creative!!
Panvi
says:This looks like something my kids will enjoy! Thank you for sharing this. :)
Amy Dyson
says:Cute Idea!
Cindy Hebert
says:This is so cute! I think my little one will enjoy it!
Sakira L Baez
says:This is great!
Lonnie Pena
says:I wish I knew about these activities daughter was younger. Love the craft.
Julia
says:I JUST love these ABC crafts that y’all have come up with. I wish that I would have had them when mine were younger. Super cute!
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceJulia,
I know what you mean. Sometimes I see these and want to borrow a friend’s preschooler just to have the fun!
Angie
says:Too cute!
Julie Masters
says:When I taught school, we did this craft with crepe paper and hung it around the classroom. It was a favorite craft.
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceJulie,
Oooo, crepe paper jellyfish would be a fun project! Thank you for the idea.
Lisa
says:This is really cute. My children are going to love doing this craft.
Rebecca
says:This is a great activity for my 3 and 4 year old granddaughters. I just signed up with you and started receiving the ABC craft but I started at J. Is there a way I can get A-I?
thank you
Rebecca
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceRebecca,
You will find the links for crafts A through J as you scroll down on this page.
Kendra
says:These letter activities are perfect for my preschooler who is our fourth child and wants to keep up with the big kids with school. Also simple and takes very little prep. :)
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceKendra,
Thank you for letting us know that they are both simple for mom and enjoyable for child!
Danielle Levins
says:I love these! I do have a question though, what do you do with all the paper that accumulates from crafting. I look and see oodles of waste, and know that my kids can draw letters and be super happy out in the yard drawing in the dirt. I think they’d like these too, but how to you balance a months worth of daily paper crafting with more than one kiddo? (I am NOT being judgmental or rude, this is a struggle I personally have, and want to know how others cope with not being drowned in a billion pieces of paper with “look Mommy” attached to each one.)
Robin E.
says: Customer ServiceGreat question, Danielle! I have five kids, ages 21 to 10, and they have produced a LOT of arts and crafts and coloring pages over the years.
Things like these ABC crafts I keep together in a book or binder. This page includes instructions on how to make a book with the pages and I’ve done something similar with a drawing-based grammar program we did a couple years ago. Then, after the school year was over, the books were put away with their finished school work as part of the record for the year.
When my kids were preschool and did similar sort of ABC craft pages, I put the pages into binder page protectors and made binder books out of them. My preschoolers enjoyed looking through the ABC books they made themselves for a long while after they finished them, so I left them that way for a year or two. Then, when they had mostly outgrown the desire to flip through the book regularly, I took the pages out of the binder, tied them up with string, and filed them in the accordion file I have for each child that has a selection of school, art, and other papers from their childhood. I call them my “nostalgia” files. :D (They aren’t thick accordion files. Each is only about an inch thick empty and even when stuffed full isn’t more than 2 inches thick.)
Now, other random art and craft projects are treated differently. My husband strung thick copper wire on the wall in three rows and I placed bunches of clothes pins on them. Arts and crafts get displayed there. This photo shows one row of the wire with Chinese character art projects we did a couple years ago. If the wires get too full, or if the art has been up there for months and we are bored of it, the kids go through it. They decide what they want to keep, although I may step in and decide I want one for my nostalgia file. After having hung up on display for months, they are often very willing to let pieces go. If not, it goes into their room, either on a shelf or in a box they keep for treasures, and they end up going through their rooms once a year or so and getting rid of things then too. I have found leaving the “what to keep and what goes” decision with them is the best way to keep the amount of paper that is kept under control.