Hello and welcome to the ALPHABET ACTIVITIES post for letters K through O!

If you haven’t been to the ALPHABET ACTIVITIES PAGE yet, be sure to check that out.

Our “Alphabet Day” suggestions include food and meal ideas to incorporate, crafts, physical activities, and the free printable worksheets that I created. Each letter has its own section!

Like all of our previous alphabet activity pages, you’ll find letter-themed meal ideas, letter-shaped construction paper crafts, letter sorting activities, free printable worksheets, and so much more!

And while I said in my announcement email that I lost most of my photos, I do have a few, so I’ll include them here.

Welcome to LETTER K DAY!

First off, let’s start with a few suggestions of fun food you can make or incorporate into meals:

• Kalamata Olives
• Ketchup
• Kale
• Kefir
• Kimchi
• Kabobs
• Kiwi
• KitKats
• Key Lime Pie

And here are a few activities you may want to try:

• Letter Shape Construction Paper Craft: make a kitten or koala or king out of paper pieces glued together to make a giant K shape. (See past alphabet activities for inspiration and examples, such as D is for Dragon.)
• Letter Sorting Craft: draw or cut out 2 kites or keys and cut out capital and lowercase Ks to sort onto the kites. (You can print capital and lowercase letters in a simple font like Arial, or you can draw them neatly. See this example for D is for Dolphins.)
• Knit: make K shapes with yarn or knitting needles. Possibly teach the child how to knit.
• Knock: draw a capital and lowercase K and have them knock on the “big” or “little” K, or you can write out a few words that start with K instead for older kids to knock on when you say them out loud, like know, keep, kind, kitty.
• Kick or Keep: put out a line of balls or other objects, have the child stand behind each one and announce “kick” or “keep,” so that they kick the object away or leave it alone. This is probably best done outside. You could also just Kick the balls. Taping a cut out K onto them gives the Littles somewhere to aim.
• Knight: dress up as a knight in shining armor.
• Tell Knock, Knock jokes.

(Forgive any blurriness in the photos – these were taken waaaay back when on one of my first digital cameras, and the previews looked pretty good on those one-inch screens!)

Now for the free worksheets!

To get them, simply click on the links listed below this preview:

Most of the K worksheets are about fine motor control, but the Kangaroo and Kin one includes pictures you can cut out so that they can be sorted by size.

Welcome to LETTER L DAY!

Here are a few suggestions of fun food you can make or incorporate into meals:

• Lemons (possibly these easy lemon cookies)
• Lemonade
• Limes
• Leeks
• Lettuce
• Lasange
• Lamb
• Linguine
• Lentils (possibly in soup)
• Lavender (possibly in tea or shortbread cookies)
• Lychee
• Ladyfingers
• Leaf-shaped cookies

Here are a few activities you may want to try:

• Letter Shape Construction Paper Craft: make a lemur, lobster, lizard, lion, or leopard out of paper pieces glued together into a giant L shape.
• Letter Sorting Craft: Ladybugs on Leaves or water drops on Lighthouses– cut out small red bugs (or just red circles) and put a big “L” or small “l” on each. Cut out 2 leaves and label each with a big “L” or small “l” so they can sort the ladybugs (or ladybirds, depending on your location). Or cut out or draw some lighthouses and use letters on blue paper to sort the “water drops” onto the correct lighthouse. Or both. Really, you can do as many of these as you have time to make.
• Make Lemon-scented homemade play dough
• Leap like a lemur or a lion, possibly from L to L after drawing out Ls with chalk on the ground
• Lick a lollipop
• Make lemonade.
• Laugh at each other’s jokes
• Do a Leaf Rubbing. Place some leaves on a hard surface, cover them with paper, and rub over them with an unwrapped crayon.
• Launch game: set up a line of toy cars and “launch” them on command (3,2,1 … launch!) at a target, possibly an “L” cut out of paper.
• Any type of lace craft. I let my Littles just paint on the lace as a sensory activity and to explore the patterns it would make.

Now for the free worksheets!

To get them, simply click on the links listed below this preview:

For the Lace worksheet, I found some cheap lace at the dollar store to let them cut up and play with as well as glue down on the paper. And for the Lush Llamas, they pulled apart some cotton balls to glue down. These were great for sensory play.

Welcome to LETTER M DAY!

Here are a few suggestions of fun food you can make or incorporate into meals:

• Mango
• Molasses
• Maple Syrup (great with pancakes – or maybe mango french toast!)
• Milk
• Mozzarella cheese (possibly in some Manicotti)
• Macaroni
• Meatloaf
• Moussaka
• Mushrooms
• Mustard
• Mackerel or Mahi-Mahi
• Meringue
• Macaroons
• Mints
• M&Ms (see the printables below)

Here are a few activities you may want to try:

• Letter Shape Construction Paper Craft: make a monkey, moose, mouse or macaw out of paper pieces in the shape of a giant M.
• Letter Sorting Craft: Mud! Cut out two uneven circles of brown paper to represent mud puddles, and cut out capital “M” and lowercase “m” pieces for your child to sort into the two puddles. Or cut out 2 of the above-mentioned animals and sort the letters onto those. Sooo many options!
• Macaroni craft: make something out of gluing dried pasta (macaroni) to paper in the shapes of a giant “M,” or make a necklace out of stringing dried pasta onto yarn. Consider coloring the macaroni with markers.
• Map Making: make a map of your house or backyard or bedroom. Any type of map will do – simple squares and squiggles are great. For some more examples, see this “mystery map” we made.
• Practice Mindfulness with Meditation.
• Go on a Merry March! Create a giant “M” out of painters tape if indoors or out of chalk if outdoors, and march back and forth over that. (Kind of like our Footprint activity.)
• “M is for Music and Mountains under the Moon.” Okay, sometimes I just picked a lot of words that start with the letter (especially if they’re relatively easy to cut out) and let my Littles make their own … wait for it … mural. (See photo below.)

Now for the free worksheets!

To get them, simply click on the links listed below this preview:

Two of these worksheets require M&M or very similar candy. And for the Marshmallow activity, I did provide a bag of mini marshmallows. You could substitute dot markers for marshmallows, I suppose, but there are plenty of worksheets without any candy if you prefer to avoid it.

Welcome to LETTER N DAY!

Here are a few suggestions of fun food you can make or incorporate into meals:

• Nectarines
• Nuts
• Nutella (like these Nutella Chocolate Bird Nests)
• Naan
• Nori
• Navy Bean Soup
• New England Clam Chowder
• Noodles
• Nachos
• Nougat
• Neapolitan Ice Cream
• Nerds (the candy)
• Nonpareils (the sprinkles or the candy)

Here are a few activities you may want to try:

• Letter Shape Construction Paper Craft: make a newt or narwhal out of paper pieces in the shape of an N.
• Letter Sorting Craft: cut out 2 pieces of paper in the shapes of nachos or novels or bird nests, and cut out capital “N” and lowercase “n” pieces to sort onto them.
• Take a nap.
• Navigate Nature by taking a hike. Perhaps in your neighborhood.
• Make your name out of dried noodles. You can glue them to a piece of construction paper, or just sculpt it for fun.
• You can also make a Noodle Necklace out of dried pasta and yarn. (There’s a repeating theme here with the macaroni and pasta and noodles, but what can I say? I’m Italian. I always have it in the house.)
• If it happens to be winter, you could sing Noel.

Now for the free worksheets!

To get them, simply click on the links listed below this preview:

These N worksheets include one that has the child place nickles on the circle, to help with motor control, but you could also fill those in with dot markers, of course. For the Newspaper one, we ripped up tiny pieces to then glue into the N shape. Always fun to make a mess. For the Numbers worksheet, I happened to find number-shape stickers at my dollar store – don’t forget to check the mail and office supply section!

Welcome to LETTER O DAY!

Here are a few suggestions of fun food you can make or incorporate into meals:

• Oatmeal
• Oat Milk
• Oranges
• Omelet
• Onigiri
• Okra
• Orzo
• Onions
• Onion Rings
• Orange Chicken
• Octopus-shaped Hot Dogs or Biscuits
• Olive Oil Cake
• Oatmeal Cookies (like these Lemon Oatmeal Cookies)
• Oreos

Here are a few activities you may want to try:

• Letter Shape Construction Paper Craft: make an octopus, owl, orangutan, ostrich, or otter out of paper pieces into the shape of an O.
• Letter Sorting Craft: cut out 2 paper orchids, overcoats, oysters, or oak trees and cut out capital “O” and lowercase “o” pieces to sort onto them.
• If you live by a beach, visit the ocean.
• Observe what happens when you drip olive oil into a bowl of water with a dropper.
• Make some more of the Green Goo from Letter G Day and let is Ooze through your fingers.
• Learn outdoors by moving your “office” outside.
• Make a flower out of onion paper peels.
• Do an Ocean sensory play bath. This is one of my all-time favorite activities, and the Littles loooved it. If you don’t have a tub, you could always make a sensory bin inside a bucket or container.

Now for the free worksheets!

To get them, simply click on the links listed below this preview:

For the Olympics worksheets, you can cut out the rings from the 2nd worksheet and let your Little match them with the 1st worksheet. For the Ocean worksheet, I happened to find animal-shaped stickers of ocean dwellers. Your Little, as always, could draw their own animals instead, or perhaps cut some photos out of an old magazine.

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