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Y Is for Yak Craft

Y Is for Yak craft title graphic

If you were thinking about trekking to the Himalayas to hang out with a yak, you can change your travel plans because our ABC Letter Craft brings this friendly beast right to your backyard! We’re sure you’ll give this letter Y craft two hooves up!

Here’s What You’ll Need

  • 2 sheets of printer paper
  • Card stock (we used dark brown, white, green, tan, and blue)
  • Y Is for Yak Craft templates
  • 2 “googly” eyes
  • Glue stick and pencil

Instructions for Assembling Your Letter Y Craft

  1. Print the Y Is for Yak Craft templates.
  2. Cut out the templates and trace the letter Y, horns, nose, nostrils, and grass onto card stock.
  3. Cut out the letter Y and the yak pieces.
  4. Attach the letter Y to a full sheet of card stock (we used blue, but you can use any color you like).
  5. Tuck the horns under the edge of the letter Y and glue in place.
  6. Using scissors, cut slits in the ends of the grass to make it look “grassier.”
  7. Glue the grass to the bottom of the letter Y.
  8. Attach the nostrils to the yak’s nose and glue the nose on top of the grass so that grass is sticking out on both sides of his mouth.
  9. Affix two googly eyes to the letter Y.


girl glues grass for her letter y craft boy glues his letter y craft boy assembles a letter y craft children attach eyes to letter y craft

Learning with Your Letter Y Craft

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

girl hides behind her letter y 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!

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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Susan Burklund

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very nice learning site.

Florin

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I love this activity!!!!

Sara Klasing

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I love these letter crafts. We are using them along with the Pre-Reading program and it works great for our little one.

Ashley

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Love doing these with my boys

Tanya

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I can’t wait to try Y is for yak

Sara

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This is a cute project I don’t quicklybthrow away! ;)

Sara

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Quickly throw*

Robin E.

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Sara,
We’re happy to hear that this craft results in something that is kept for a while. We didn’t want to create something that would be quickly tossed.

Natasha

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Seems like a good way to do spelling.

Julie

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Yes! Thank you!

Jaci Cathcart

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Cute idea for my preschooler!

Tanesha

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My kids love to do these letter crafts.

sue

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Thank-you for all your wonderful ideas!

Kim

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We love doing your letter crafts. My 4yo begs to do them each week.

Robin E.

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Kim,
We love hearing that little ones are enjoying our crafts! It makes it all worth it!

Mary Esther

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I appreciate all the ideas and crafts! I am just starting to take my preschool son through the alphabet in Letter a Week fashion and am looking for lots of ideas.

Robin E.

says: Customer Service

Mary,
You can access the entire alphabet of ABC Animal Crafts from this page. In addition, we have many other games and activities for learning letters that your child may enjoy here.

Kristen Walker

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This looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for the idea!

Lindy

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We haven’t started these crafts yet but I plan to. Should I go back and start in alphabetical order or can I dive in with this one?

Robin E.

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Lindy,
That is up to you! It can be helpful to go through it alphabetically, to reinforce alphabetical order and take advantage of the Alphabet Song. However, you can still sing the Alphabet Song no matter what order you do the crafts and there are many ways to work on alphabetical order.

If you haven’t seen it already, here is the link to the entire alphabet ABC Animal Crafts.

Alison

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What a cute idea to try and practice many skills at the same time. Thanks!

Julia

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Thank you for all the craft ideas and free downloads!

Crystal

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Love it!!

Lindsay

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This looks perfect for my 5 year old. He loves making crafts.

Kim Seon

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I love you ideas. Your organized learning programs are so easy for mom’s to use. Thank you!

Sally

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Love these simple ideas

Jennifer

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I love letter crafts when teaching the alphabet!

Penny

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We have absolutely LOVED these alphabet crafts. Great for that tactile experience.

Robin E.

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Penny,
We love that you have loved these! It’s great to hear that these crafts have been enjoyed.

Jamie

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We are about to cover Y in the AAR pre-reading level. This is perfect!

Robin E.

says: Customer Service

Great timing, Jamie. We hope you enjoy this craft!

Heather

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My little people are loving these letter crafts. Thanks!

Kris Kitaoka

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I love this heads on activity!

Kris Kitaoka

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Hands on

Robin E.

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Kris,
We understood what you meant, but it’s kind of a funny typo considering this craft makes a yak’s head out of the letter Y. :D

Julie C

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Too cute!

Daniele

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Thank you for these wonderful blog posts! these are a great addition to what we are doing in our newly aquired AAR program.

Ginger

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Great way to learn letters.

Amanda B

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We’ve been enjoying making all of these letters. They’re so cute!

Robin E.

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Thank you for letting us know you have been enjoying these ABC animal crafts, Amanda! Only one left.