Using crafts to teach the alphabet is the perfect mix of learning and play, which is a great way for little ones master a new concept. These letter B crafts for toddlers and preschoolers will not only help your child with letter recognition but also with practicing the letter B sound and begining to write the letter.
It’s also a great way to improve fine motor skills and more. Hands-on activities like these fun letter B crafts help a child engage all of the senses and increase retention for what they’re learning. And you can use these activities are a fun way to learn both the lower case letters and the upper case letters.
I bet you’ve never heard of craft flashcards…Of course you haven’t…because I totally made it up 🙂 As a pediatric Occupational Therapist, I’ve witnessed kids struggle to complete multi-step activities. So, I came up with this brilliant (if I do say myself) way to break down crafts into bite-sized pieces in the form of flashcards.
These are especially perfect for those kiddos who have limited attention spans.
Crafts are such a great developmental tool for kids (improves motor planning, attention span, executive functioning, fine motor skills, language development and more), and using flashcards makes planning crafts for your kids to enjoy even easier.
Just print out a few of your favorites onto cardstock, cut them into the cards with a hole in the corner and place them on a keyring that you can connect to your craft supply bag (which you can fill using our master list of supplies that we stick to for every single one of the projects in the flashcard collection). It’s so simple.
And the best part is that there’s not a screen in sight. Technology is such a great thing, but it’s also nice to take a break from it once in awhile and let the brain explore in other ways. Click the image to learn more about our collection of 100 Craft Flashcards for Kids.
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SUPPLIES FROM THE BAG
All of the supplies used in these crafts are part of the master list of simple materials that we use for every single creative project on this site. It’s a list of 27 basic items, like a glue stick, googly eyes, popsicle sticks, paper plates, tissue paper, markers, crayons and more.
Most of these things you already have in your own home, and all of them are so much fun and perfect for hands-on activities like these alphabet crafts. Use supplies from the bag to make every single one of these educational letter B crafts.
Check out this fun video for learning the letter B
Here are some of our favorite fun letter B crafts
Squish Paint Butterfly Craft
To make this fun and simple butterfly craft you’ll need different colors of paint to dot on one side of the paper. Then squish it together and add some newspaper dots. For the full craft tutorial go HERE.
Bumble Bee Craft with Newspaper Stripes
Bee starts with B! This bumble bee craft is one of those art projects that goes together rather quickly but really helps little hands develop fine motor skills since it requires pinching a pompom and tearing newspaper. Check out the full craft tutorial HERE.
Paper Plate Bear Craft
This bear craft can be simplified by starting with pre-colored brown paper plates or using crayons instead of paints. I think that painting is a great activity for little ones, but it’s not always possible in all settings. Pre-cut the accessories from brown construction paper using the free template.
Grab the free craft template and check out the full craft tutorial HERE.
Simple Bat Craft
This is one of those fun crafts where we’re going to squish the paint. Cut out the bat using the free template, drip on a few dots of paint and them squish the two sides of the black construction paper together to finish off your bat craft. Get the full instructions HERE.
Paper Bag Bat Craft
This fun alphabet craft is a little bit more complicated than some others on this list and is probably more appropriate for an older preschooler. You can opt not to get the paint out and use crayons or markers instead and pre-cut the pieces to make it doable. Check out the full craft tutorial and grab your free template HERE.
Paper Plate Bunny Craft
B is the second letter of the alphabet and stands for BUNNY! We’re giving you a few bunny crafts on this list and all are simple crafts that you can use to introduce the letter B in an easy way. You could even follow it with a time of doing the “bunny hop”. Check out the full craft tutorial for this bunny and grab the free template HERE.
Yarn Bunny Craft
This alphabet craft is not only an adorable bunny craft but it’s one of those simple crafts that pack a big punch for promoting so many developmental skills. Check out the full craft tutorial HERE.
Sleeping Bunny Craft
This sleeping bunny is one of those awesome letter B crafts that is just so completely sweet. It requires no paint but should be prepped ahead if you have kids who are still mastering scissors skills. It takes just one paper plate, a piece of paper (which construction), a pompom tail and markers or crayons to draw on the face. Grab the free template and check out the step-by-step instructions HERE.
Baseball Player Puppet
This Baseball Puppet is not only a great hands-on activity but it’s also one of our favorite letter B crafts because you can play with it when you’re done. Putting on a puppet show will be a great time. Grab the free template and check out the full craft tutorial HERE.
Basketball Player Puppet
B is also for Basketball, and making this basketball player is so much fun. Of course, it’s even more fun to bring several players together and act out a game. The template includes various hair styles for both boys and girls. Grab the free templates and step-by-step instructions HERE.
Beaver Craft
Grab some paper plates and make this beaver craft for one of your letters of the alphabet crafts. This is one of the more challenging crafts in this collection of fun activities for the letter B, but you can simplify it by using crayons or markers instead of paint and pre-cutting the pieces using the free template.
Check out the full craft tutorial and pick up your free template HERE.
Bloom Craft
This letter B preschool activity is for Bloom! B is also for Bouquet! Each flower is unique and are simple crafts to put together. Make several to form the entire bouquet. Check out the full craft tutorial HERE.
Bird Craft (Robin)
I love this bird craft especially if you are learning the letter B in the Spring when the robins and other birds are just starting to come back after the long winter. It’s a great way to use hands-on crafts to teach about 2 things at once. Grab the free template and craft tutorial HERE.
Bus Craft
Maybe this should have been the first craft on our alphabet activities list since a Bus is the perfect start of school craft. It could also be for preschool use in preparation for getting your kiddo ready to ride the bus to kindergarten. Get the free template and step-by-step instructions HERE.
Bug Crafts
These simple fun activities go together quickly and are interactive B is for bug crafts. Print the free pdf, color your bugs and then glue them onto a clothespin with a strip of paper underneath that makes them fly when you pinch. Pinch is one of those fine motor activities that will help get your little one ready to hold a pencil properly later on. Grab the free printable and full list of instructions HERE.
Letter B Coloring Pages
I can’t think of a more simple letter activity than a set of printable coloring pages. Every busy mom loves coloring pages. Just grab some crayons or amp up the fun by adding sensory elements like salt, cotton, glue, water colors and more. Get your free alphabet printables HERE.
Blue Crafts
There are so many crafts that you can adapt just using the color blue to make them into the perfect letter B preschool craft. You can even make a blue bear, blue bird or blue butterfly from the crafts already on this list. The only limit is your imagination.
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Tips from an OT for Teaching Letter Formation
When kiddos are learning to write letters, I always start with the upper case letters because their formation if much simpler. That doesn’t mean you can’t also be introducing how the lower case letters look and which ones go together.
But even with name writing, I always teach it all in capital letters first and then introduce what I call “the kindergarten way” which is in title case (first letter capitalized and the rest are lowercase).
Of course, I always start with lots of alphabet activities that don’t even involve a pencil and paper to get to know the letters of the alphabet through play first.
Here are even more Alphabet Crafts for you to make…
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Name Crafts go hand in hand with Alphabet Crafts…
