Letter "Ss"

Printable Coloring Pages for Letter "Ss" Sailboat   Spider

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Crafts & Activities

Prop Box Idea for the Letter Ss = Spaghetti Shop
Fill the prop box with items that children can create a spaghetti shop such as dried pasta, pots, pans, aprons, chef hats, menu's, etc. Set up in the dramatic play area near kitchen and seating area.

Make a Display Box for "Ss"
Decorate a box with the letter "Ss" theme. Inside the box place items (or pictures of items) whose names begin with Ss. Some ideas below:
Food
strawberries, spinach, shrimp, steak, sausages,
Animals, Insects & Birds
spiders, skunks, sparrows, snakes,
Miscellaneous
socks, slippers, shoes, sandles, sand, stickers, slinky, shorts, sweaters,

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

Seeds
Gather several different types of seeds and show them to your children. Now take your kids outside and let them plant a garden! If you don’t have space for that give each child a Styrofoam cup. Allow the children to put soil into the cup and then plant their seeds in the cup. Teach them that plants need, soil, water and sunlight to grow. Help the children water their seeds daily.

Seed Collage
Give the kids a bunch of different seeds and encourage them to glue them to paper to make a collage or a picture.

Spiders
Go on a spider hunt. Talk about how many legs they have and why the spin a web. Try to catch one to observe in a jar. Have the kids try to crawl like a spider.

Spider Egg
Tell the kids the female spider spins a special kind of silk to keep her eggs in. Let your kids try spinning their own spider egg. Give them a rubber spider toy or insect, a plastic egg and some yarn. Have the kids wrap the egg with the yarn and tape the end. Later have the kids guess which insect or spider they got before unwrapping the egg.

Spider craft
Supply the kids with an egg carton, pom poms, google eyes and pipe cleaners. Cut out one egg holder from the carton. Poke 4 pipe cleaners on each side for the spiders’ legs. Glue a pom pom for the spider head to the egg holder then add googly eyes to the pom pom.

Seed Song
(Sung to the tune of “London Bridge”)

See the small seeds falling down,
Falling down, falling down.
See the small seeds falling down
Grow, seeds, grow

See the winged seeds in the wind.
In the wind, in the wind,
See the winged seeds in the wind,
Fly, seeds, fly.

See the big seeds in the sea,
In the sea, in the sea,
See the big seeds in the sea.
Float, seeds, float.

See the hooked seeds on my socks,
On my socks, on my socks
See the hooked seeds on my socks,
Ride, seeds, ride.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

The itsy bitsy spider
Climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.

Make a spider snack Give each child two round crackers. Allow them to spread peanut butter on the crackers. Then stick pretzels in between the two crackers for legs. Add raisins for eyes and enjoy!

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