Alphabet Mow the Grass Magnet Activity for Preschool
This mow the grass activity is outrageously fun as it combines a magnet activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age students with practice forming alphabet letters! This clever alphabet activity for preschoolers is great for practicing forming both upper and lowercase letters in a hands-on tactile way perfect for spring or summer.
Magnet Activity for Preschool
Kids will love practicing making uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters with this fun alphabet activity for preschoolers and kindergartners. All you need are a few simple materials and our free printable grass letters printable to try this fun magnet activity. Children will use magnets to litearlly mow the green grass-like substance to form capital and small letters. This is such a great way to practice for your spring theme or summer theme lessons. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this magnet maze type activity where kids will learn while playing.
Magnet Activity
All you need for this fun alphabet activity for kids are:
- Grass Letter Printables printed on cardstock
- scissors to cut apart the cards and cut out the lawn mower template
- magnets
- dowel rod or paint stick stirrer
- food storage container, large ziplock bag, or letter tray
- green confetti or glitter
Alphabet Activity for Preschoolers
To prepare this fun alphabet activity for kindergarten, simply dump the green confetti in your plastic bin or letter tray. Next, cut apart the grass letter printables and lawn mower cut-out.
Depending on your child’s coordination you can either:
- make letters from the bottom – Attach a magnet to the underside of the lawn mower and a 2nd magnet to the bottom of your dowel rod. You are all ready for this fun alphabet activity!
- mow the grass from the top – Better for letter formation, but a little trickier to get the magnet read to go for each letter. As this option has a loose magnet you will want to make sure to closely supervise your child. Put a magnet under the confetti and then one on the bottom of a dowel rod. Put the lawn mower on top of the spot where the magnet is on the underside and top with dowel rod to move the lawn mower.
ABC Learning for Kids
Pick a letter card from the pile. Now with the lawnmower in the grass and use the dowel rod to make the letter. as the magnets are pulling towards one another they will plow the way revealing the letter in the grass.
Do all the cards or just the letter your child is working on. You can also choose to just make the capital or lowercase letters.
This is such a fun, clever way to help kids practice making letters with a fun, hands-on activity for preschoolers and kindergartners.
Magnet Activities for Kids
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Alphabet Printables for Preschoolers
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- See all of our FREE ABC Printables here!
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- Alphabet Books pdf – a book for each letter of the alphabet from A to Z
- Alphabet Maze pack to practice ABCs with cute themed mazes
- Cut and Paste Alphabet Worksheets – great for learning ABCs with pre-k
- Super Cute Printable Letter Hats to color and wear for letter of the week
- Finish the picture Alphabet Playdough Mats
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- Free Build a Letter Template
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