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Letter T Craft

By Shaunna Evans 5 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun with letter crafts as I have this year. The kids really connect with each letter and enjoy putting together a craft that goes with the weekly theme.  This week’s T is for Trees craft was inspired by the Letter T Craft from Counting Coconuts.

We started by grabbing some cardboard from the recycling bin. Thick cardboard that has ridges (is there a name for that?), not flat cardboard like you would have on a cereal box, will work best for this craft. I cut the cardboard into the T shape.

Then the kids and I talked about the bark on the trees we had been observing throughout the week, and we discussed that most trees have ridges on their trunks. We used a fork to create ridges on our tree trunks. The kids spent some time dragging the fork down the cardboard and experimenting with pushing softer and harder to make different imprints. When they were happy with the look of their bark we moved on to the next step.

Tree Craft for Kids

We added tissue paper leaves in two shades of green. Then we proudly added their finished crafts to our alphabet display to use as we review letters and sounds.

Letter T Craft

This is going to be the last post in our T is for Trees series for now. We did do some other crafts and a lot of exploring in the woods to learn about trees first-hand, but they are very similar to the activities I shared in the first post of this series.  I’m sure we’ll be exploring trees more in the future, and I’ll include those posts in the series as we do. For now you can find more ideas for learning about trees on my Letter T Pinterest Board.

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Filed Under: Forest, Letter T, Phonics, Preschool, Trees, Uncategorized Tagged With: ABC crafts, alphabet crafts, Arbor Day, Earth Day, Earth Day activities for kids, learning about trees, letter crafts, letter T craft, preschool trees, Tree Activities, tree theme

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  1. Cindy deRosier

    September 8, 2016 at 1:00 pm

    I’m the Editor of Fun Family Crafts and wanted to let you know that we have featured your tree! You can see it here:

    http://funfamilycrafts.com/letter-t-tree/

    If you have other kid-friendly craft tutorials, we’d love for you to submit them. If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can get one from the right side bar of your post above. Thanks for a great project idea!

    Reply
  2. Yogamama

    October 21, 2013 at 5:05 pm

    I’m doing a link-up today of Letter T related posts and this would be perfect if you’d like to link up!

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    • Shaunna Evans

      November 9, 2013 at 9:06 pm

      Thank you

      Reply
  3. Ann @ My Nearest and Dearest

    May 10, 2013 at 8:04 pm

    You know I love all your letter activities but this one might be my favorite because I know my son would really have fun using a fork to create ridges. Great idea!

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    • Shaunna

      May 11, 2013 at 7:25 am

      I know exactly what you mean, Ann! That was definitely the highlight of this letter craft. They loved used the fork and experimenting with the different markings they could make.

      Reply

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