Letter "Ff"

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Crafts & Activities

Prop Box Idea for the Letter Ff = Fishing
Fill the prop box with items for fishing - magnet rods, fish with paperclips attached for catching, net, bucket,

Make a Display Box for "Ff"
Decorate a box with the letter "Ff" theme. Inside the box place items (or pictures of items) whose names begin with Ff. Some ideas below:
Food
fruit, figs,
Animals, Insects & Birds
fish, fruit flies, flamingo,
Miscellaneous
flowers, fans, feet,

Or fill an album with items that begin with the letter "Ff"


Recognizing the Letter "Ff"
Introduce the letter "Ff" to the children by showing them the printed lower and upper case F f Have letter Ff's hidden in the room and let the children find them. Sound out the letter Ff and words that begin with the letter.

Footprints
Have children dip their feet in paint and walk on long pieces of paper.

Family
Children can bring in family photos and draw pictures of their family. As a math activity, graph the number of people in each family and count.

Fish
Cut a fish shape x2 out of brown kraft paper. Staple leaving the top open. Stuff with newspaper and staple closed. Paint.

Flowers
Have children create construction paper flowers.

Frogs
Frogs are easy to make with a few simple shapes. Cut out a large triangle, a circle, and two small triangles from green construction paper. Place the the circle on the large triangle for the head and the smaller triangles at the bottom points for the feet. Egg carton cups make great bulgy frog eyes.

Fingerpaint

Fans
Fold paper accordian style to make fans. Decorate.


Songs, Finger Plays & Nursery Rhymes

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Five green and speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs
Yum Yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were four green speckled frogs
Glub, Glub

Four green and speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs
Yum Yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were three green speckled frogs
Glub, Glub

Three green and speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs
Yum Yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were two green speckled frogs
Glub, Glub

Two green and speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs
Yum Yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there was one green speckled frog
Glub, Glub

One green and speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs
Yum Yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Then there were no green speckled frogs
Glub, Glub

Five People in my Family

Oh, I've got five people in my family
And there's not one of them I'd swap
There is a sister and two brothers
And a Mother and a Pop
Oh, five is such a pretty number
I'm awfully glad that I've
Five people in my family
One, two, three, four, five
1-2-3-4-5!

Fingers

Fingers, fingers
Flit and fly
Fingers, fingers
Climb up high
Fingers, fingers
Turn and twist
Fingers, fingers
Make a fist
Fingers, fingers
Crawl and creep
Fingers, fingers
Fast asleep


Recipes

Fish Dogs
Place a cooked fish stick on a hot dog bun. Place 1/2 cheese slice or grated cheese on the fish stick and grill til melted.

Fresh Fruit Salad
Choose a variety of fruits. Wash, peel, and chop into bite sized pieces - toss gently together in a salad bowl.

Ideas for this theme submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC), Pearl (PEARLW), and Sandy (SANDYINFL).

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