S is for Snake!

Today was "S is for Snake" day! We're speeding through the end of our alphabet, so that we can start fresh themes for homeschool preschool soon. Keep scrolling to see what we did today, or click one of the links below to revisit similar themes from the past!

S is for Snake - 2015

Letter S - 2014

Books

These are the snake books we read today. "Elephant & Piggie" books have been a favorite around here since Honey Pot and Little M&M were little. Sweet E loved it too! We read it several times.

We even brought out the characters, and acted out the story!

Introducing the Letter S

I made our usual page to introduce the letter, and have Sweet E create it in several forms. She traced it, stamped it, poked it with a giant pushpin, and filled it with stickers.

I expected her to just put a few stickers inside the S, but she overlapped them and made quite a project out of it lol.

Look at all those stickers!

Missing Numbers

For our math activity I drew numbers from 1 to 10 on several craft sticks, with a few blanks. I glued on some eyes and tongues to make them resemble snakes. Then I wrote the numbers on clothespins for her to clip on where they belong.

She loved this, and every time she finished a snake, she slithered it along the table making a "ssssss" sound.

She did a great job, and I think we're ready to move onto larger numbers!

Playdoh Snakes

I found this free printable from Danielle's Place, and changed it just a little bit to add colors and words.

I slipped them into a laminating sheet. Then Sweet E rolled playdoh into snakes, and formed the shapes.

We added eyes too just for fun!

Hisss Board Game

Hisss has been a favorite game for years. Great for little kids! And it fit perfectly into our theme, so we played it today. Great activity to learn taking turns and color matching! Little M&M and Honey Pot played with us!

Bubble Snakes

We also made bubble snakes today! It just takes a water bottle with the bottom cut off and a sock put on the end. Then dip it into a bowl of dish soap with a little bit of water.

Sometimes they got really long before falling apart!

Little M&M joined us too! And when the wind picked up, Sweet E chased after his snakes that blew away!

So fun!

S is for Snake!

Books

We borrowed two books about snakes for today's letter of the day. Both were very cute. We are huge Elephant and Piggie fans, and Can I Play Too? quickly became one of our favorites!

Letter Recognition Activity

For today's letter recognition activity, we drew S's on our window with dry erase markers. Then the kids filled them up with Squigz! It was a challenge to stick them all up there before they lost suction, but both kids did a great job!

Little M&M covered his S with the blue Squigz.

And Honey Pot use the green ones.

Afterward, they tried to fill in the empty spaces with orange. It was a fun activity!

Fine Motor Beaded Snakes

We created snakes out of pipe cleaners for our activity of the day. The idea came from Mess for Less. I attached a small jingle bell to one end of the snake. Then the kids had to choose two colors of beads with which to create a pattern. Honey Pot chose pink and purple, and created an AAB pattern.

Little M&M chose dark blue and black, and made and AB pattern.

Then we just attached oval papers to the other end, and the kids drew on their faces. Very cute!