S Is for Swan Craft
Swimming silently along the silvery shore, this stunning lowercase S craft is sure to cause a stir! You’ll know her by her long, slender neck. If your little one needs to learn the letter S, snatch up this super-sweet ABC Craft soon!
Here’s What You’ll Need
- 2 sheets of printer paper
- Card stock (we used green, white, and orange)
- S Is for Swan Craft templates
- One googly eye
- Pencil and marker
- Glue stick and scissors
Instructions for Assembling Your Lowercase S Craft
- Print the S Is for Swan Craft templates.
- Cut out the templates and trace the letter S and the swan’s wings and beak onto card stock.
- Cut out the letter S and the swan’s body parts.
- Glue the letter S to a piece of card stock (we used green, but you can use any color you like).
- Tuck one wing under the topside of the bottom curve of the letter S and glue in place.
- Glue the second wing on top of the other wing, but slightly off-set, so both wings are visible as shown in the video below.
- Glue the swan’s beak to the upper end of the letter S.
- Use a marker to draw nostrils on the swan’s beak.
- Glue a googly eye just above the swan’s beak.
Learning with Your Letter S Craft
As you and your child assemble your S Is for Swan Craft, practice saying /s/–/s/–swan 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 lowercase S craft turns out! Please share your photos with us on our Facebook page, or tag your Instagram photos with the hashtag #allaboutABCcrafts!
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Photos by: Rachel Neumann
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Great idea – love the craft association
My own children are too old for this craft, but I enjoy forwarding the letter craft ideas to others who have little ones!
Cute!
My little one would love this, we enjoy crafting together.
My daughter would love this!
Very cute craft for helping remember the sound of the letter so.
Looking to give this curriculum a try!!
Excited to try AAL
I love this idea! My children did crafts like these for every letter during their preschool year. They loved looking through their own alphabet books.
I have been saving this whole series to use wit my youngest for preschool!
Cute! What a great idea!
Love this one! My kinder girl will love it.
All About Reading and Spelling have been a great choice for our University Model families and teachers. I love all the support that is provided from your website and blog that includes age- appropriate activities for the younger learners as well as plenty of resources that are well-organized and useful for the older elementary students (and their teachers)!
I am so thankful for your abc crafts! My preschooler loves them!
This will be perfect for my youngest to begin working on her letters.
My kids are having so much fun doing these!
Love this! Thank you! Just started homeschooling my 6-yr-old and 3-yr-old. This is so cute!
Our little girl would really like this!
Love this idea! My boys love to cut and glue.
I have a little boy whose name starts with “S” who would love to do this. :)
What an adorable craft! I’m going to give this a try with my preschooler! Thank you!
I love these hands on activities it’s breaks up the monotony of just another letter. My 4 year old can’t wait to start!
This is so cute!
What a fun and simple way for my children to see their letters all around them in all that they do!
These crafts are so fun!! My preschooler will love them. Starting them today.
These crafts are awesome!
I am imagining our new alphabet wall….thanks!
Love these letter crafts!! They are so fun for my kids
Love this, so fun!
This is so cute! I think my 6 year old would love.
A peaceful activity!
This is the cutest project!!
Love these great ideas!
Thank you for this great resource!
This is a cute idea.
This is so cute and clever!
This looks so cute😀
Super cute. Would go great with The Ugly Duckling.
This looks like a fun, easy project.
My 3 year old loves to do these letter crafts with me while the older kids do other school.
I think this could help our son learn the correct way to form his letters
My 3 year old loves making these crafts!
I did something similar with my 5 year old and will be starting my 3 year old next year but I’m wanting to do different shapes/animals so this is perfect! And so cute and fun!
Thanks!
Cute
Looks like a lot of fun for my preschooler and kindergartner!
Love these crafts!
That’s really cute!
Love this idea!
Love this idea. Very cute.
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I cannot wait to see my daughter unlock reading!
Love the interactive way if engaging the students!
Beautiful idea!
This is awesome
Great activity!!!
Looks like fun!
Too cute
As an SLP I love the letter crafts!! Great for artic!
I love the idea of making the letters shaped like an animal! So cute!
good for my little one. thank you.
What a cute idea!
Love this!!
Love these ideas!
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ … My preschoolers always ❤️ to relate any content learned to animals and/or pets! This will be an absolute SMASH – definitely will give it a go😊🙏🏼😍
This is a really neat but simple idea! Definitely going to need to try this one.
What a cute craft! My daughter would love to do that!
what a fun way to practice letter shapes and sounds.
This is just so cute. What a perfect craft project for little learners!
Love all the support & ideas!
I love this! Great ideas!
Thank you for a fun craft, am definitely going to try it with my youngest son.
Wow that looks really cool. I will have to bookmark this page for when my children get to the letter s!
Thanks for the fun idea!
This is the perfect project for us right now. We have trumpeter swans flying over our house several times a day!
I love this. I do a lot of picture words with my right brained child.
Too cute!
This is a cute craft idea.
So cute!
Looks fun!
That is such a cute craft, I love it.
This is so fun!! Can’t wait to do this with my littles!
Love this craft idea!
What a great way to help kids visualize and remember the letter sounds!
Funny I made something similar when i was teaching my son the S sound in Phonics with the shape of a snake instead swapping the beak for the snake tongue. this will be the next S project. thanks for this
Just love all the craft ideas. My kids love arts and crafts and the way this incorporates learning without them even thinking its work, is just great.
These learning activities/crafts are so COMPLETE!! The activities have easy to follow instructions, along with pictures to keep you on the right path. And they’re FREE!! I can’t wait to try this out when my grandkids come to visit Meemah.
Love this idea!
Super cute!
How cute is this?! I love this idea- we just finished reading aloud The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White so this is perfect!
How neat !
So creative and fun! I can see how this would make my child more interested in learning his letters!
How cute!
This is so cute! My kids will love it!
My little one loves adding fun crafts like this to her lessons!
This is the cutest idea! I’ve been looking for crafty fun ways to get my 4 year old excited about working on her letters and letter sounds. This is right up her alley as she loves crafts and animals!
I’m definelty going to be doing this with my students! Thank you!
When my son was 2, I found these lessons on Youtube, and they blew me away with how fast he caught on! Even though we couldn’t afford the whole program, I am super Thankful this company was willing to share, with YouTube, what they did.
Thank You! It really is an AMAZING way to learn!! :)
My kids love crafts. What a creative idea!
Cute craft idea!
This looks adorable!
This is such a great idea. I wish I would have thought of these things when I was teaching my little ones their letters.
These would be so wonderful to do with my little one.
My daughter loves doing these.
What a fun craft
That’s such a fun idea!
Ooh I love this! I am so totally not a craft mom but my kids love crafts; this is perfect!
Such a simple yet unique way to learn letters! So much fun!
This is great, always looking for more interactive crafts!
So cute! Fun to do with littles.
My daughter LOVES doing crafts and this is the perfect way to also teach letters! Love this!!
Great winter project!
We love the alphabet crafts! They hang on our wall all year long, and we reference them often!
This is a great idea!
My 3 year old niece would love this.
I think my two would love this hands on approach.
My 4 year old loves her ABC crafts! Really helps them stick to her memory.
My 4 year old loves ABC crafts!
My kindergarten loves these letter crafts.
My son loves the alphabet letter crafts! The swan was no different. Thank you for tactile learning!
This is such a cute craft!
I love this! My 4 year old will love it too
Cute! Thanks for the letter activity ideas.
Thanks for this!
How cute!
How fun! Thank you for the all the letter activities!
Love the ABC letter crafts.
Cute
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That is a adorable craft! I’m going to plan to do this with my son and my daycare kids
So cute!!
Love the ABC letter crafts!
This is is a beauty I’d want to decorate my wall anyway.
Love the ABC crafts!