Paper Plate Activities With the Letter G
Teaching your children how to read is an important part of their development. Help them to cement their letters of the alphabet by doing crafts that involve the letter G. Use colorful paper plates as the materials for this craft, as they are inexpensive and come in large quantities.
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Grapes
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Help children to understand the pronunciation and the applications of the letter G. Teach them how to use the letter by making grapes from paper plates. Have children color paper plates using acrylic paint. Put out a light green and a wine red color. Mix blue and red paint together to show children how to make the color purple as well. While the plates are drying, teach your child how to spell "grapes" and how to draw out the letter on a piece of lined paper. Cut the plates into small circles and have your child glue similar shades of color together into grape vines.
Ghost
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For Halloween, teach children how ghosts and ghouls rely on the letter G for their names. Have children color eyes and a wailing mouth onto a white paper plate with black markers or acrylic paint. Cut another plate into four thick, curvy lines. Glue the lines onto the back of the plate and display it somewhere obvious. Teach children how combining the G sound with other letters produces a different pronunciation than if it were by itself. Teach them how to spell the Halloween-related G words, such as "goblin," "ghost," "ghoul" or "gremlin."
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Gingerbread Man
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During the holidays, children will have a blast creating a paper gingerbread man that will help their imaginations run away. Cut a basic gingerbread shape out of a paper plate and help children color it brown using a thick-tipped marker or acrylic paint. Allow them to glue on pom-poms, glitter or ribbon to decorate their gingerbread man. Find a copy of the nursery rhyme associated with gingerbread men and print out a copy. Teach your children how to recognize the letter G and highlight any occurrence in the poem. Teach them to recognize both capital and lower-case Gs and point out any they may have missed.
Geese
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Take your young child out to the park or a petting zoo to feed the animals. Point out any that begin with the letter G, such as geese or goats. When you get home, pull out a couple of paper plates and help your child to make a goose. Cut out the basic shapes, such as the body, long neck and the head with beak from a plain white paper plate. Glue the pieces together and allow your child to draw feathers, eyes and the beak onto the plate with markers. Allow them to add decorations, such as a ribbon neckband, to the goose. Make the feet from orange pipe cleaners. Teach your child how to write out "goose" on the back of the paper plate, both with a capital and lower case G.
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