Letter G Activities for Preschool – G is for Gobble!

If your child is working on learning letter sounds, I have some great activities for learning the sound of the letter G! These letter G activities start with a fun craft that you can do with your child. It’s a great way to get some bonding time with your kiddo, and a good opportunity for your child to practice fine motor skills. Win win! The letter G craft in this post is turkey themed – so it’s a fun way to get a little festive in your English language arts lesson plans in the month of November, but it’s also a great activity for any time of year. When you have finished your letter G craft, you will use it for some fun hands-on activities for learning the hard sound of letter G. Read on for a fun and free printable letter G craft and instructions for fun preschool letter G activities! 

Letter G Craft – Gobble the Turkey

Before you can do the letter G activities that I describe in this post, you have to make Gobble the Turkey. Gobble the Turkey is a quick and easy craft that your child will enjoy making with you – and it’s a perfect alphabet craft to kick off a letter of the week theme for the letter G! 

Materials Needed for Gobble the Turkey

You don’t need a lot of materials to make Gobble the Turkey – the supplies are pretty standard, so there’s a good chance you already have everything you need. Here is the list of supplies:

Tools

• scissors
• paint brush
• hot glue gun

Materials

• toilet paper roll (one for each Gobble the Turkey that you plan to make)
• brown paint
• hot glue stick or glue dots
• colorful card stock or construction paper
• stick on googly eyes
• free printables: Toilet Paper Roll Turkey Pieces, Turkey Letters, and G Pictures (you can find the free printable pdf files below)

Instructions for Making Gobble the Turkey:

Gobble the Turkey is easy to make. You can do this simple letter craft one on one with your child or with a small group of children. If you are doing letter G crafts with a small group of children, you will most likely want to prepare some of the pieces of the craft ahead of time, or enlist multiple adults or older children to help with putting the craft together. Very young children will need more help, especially if their little hands haven’t quite mastered cutting.  

• 1. The first step to making Gobble the Turkey is to cut a slit through the toilet paper roll. This is most likely a task for an adult or older child. The slit will go almost all the way through the toilet paper tube, but not quite. You want to leave enough of the tube intact that it stays together, but cut enough apart that you can open and close the slit, like a mouth (because that is what it will become – Gobble the Turkey’s mouth!). The slit will be about 2/3 of the way up from the bottom of the tube. 

• 2. The second step to making Gobble the Turkey is to paint the toilet paper roll. I painted mine brown, but if you have creative kiddos that like to use their imagination, feel free to use whatever color they choose. Make a purple Gobble the Turkey if you would like! This step needs to be done in advance with enough time that the paint is dry before you add the rest of Gobble the Turkey’s parts. Toilet paper rolls are pretty absorbent, so 30 minutes should probably be enough time for the paint to dry sufficiently. 

• 3. While your toilet paper roll is drying, print out the Toilet Paper Roll Turkey Pieces on white paper and cut each piece out to use as a pattern. If you are making a lot of Gobble the Turkeys, you might also want to print the Feathers printable to save time. You can print the Feathers printable directly onto different colors of paper so that the feathers are ready to cut out, and you can skip the tracing step for the feathers. 
• 4. Trace your Turkey pieces onto colored paper. I used card stock because it is bright and sturdy. A piece of construction paper will also work. I used red card stock for the gobble, orange card stock for the beak pieces, and red, orange, green, and blue card stock for the feathers. You will want about eight feathers total. I also used the blue card stock for the letter G. Use whatever colors you would like! Even better – let your child choose the colors! 
• 5. Now it’s time to cut out the Turkey pieces! This is a great opportunity for young children to practice their fine motor skills. And if the pieces don’t turn out perfectly shaped, that’s ok! It will give their turkey character. You will most likely want to or need to help your child cut out the letter G. It will be tricky for little hands to cut around all those curves, and you do need the letter to be recognizable. That is a very important part of the letter recognition aspect of the activity that you will do with Gobble the Turkey. 
• 6. When all the cutting is complete, it is time to attach the turkey parts to the toilet paper tube. This step will most likely require an adult, especially if you are using hot glue, which is the easiest way to go. To help your child feel involved in this step, you can have him point to where he wants you to place the feathers as you glue them on. You will want to attach the feathers on the back of the tube (the slit opening is the front) just above the slit that forms the mouth. Then glue around the edge of the bottom of the slit and attach one of the beak pieces, matching the rounded edge to the curve of the toilet paper tube. Do the same thing with the other beak piece to complete the beak of the turkey. Glue the upper case letter G on the front of the toilet paper tube, underneath Gobble’s beak. Lastly, put a little fold in the top of the gobble then glue it to the top of the beak and let it hang down. 

• 7. Now it’s time for the finishing touch – the googly eyes! Peel the backing off of the googly eyes and let your child place them wherever she would like. If you do not have googly eyes, you can use dot stickers instead, or draw some eyes on Gobble the Turkey with a marker. 
• Now your Gobble the Turkey is complete! It’s time to move on to some fun letter G activities! 

Letter G Activities

These joyful activities will help your child learn the sound of the letter g in a jiffy, and she’ll have so much fun in the process! The following letter G activities all require the letter G craft Gobble the Turkey (instructions for making Gobble the Turkey are above). If you have not yet made Gobble the Turkey, please do so before reading on. Alternatively, you can make a simple paper bag turkey and cut a slit for a mouth if you need a quicker option for this activity.

G is for Gobble 

Instructions:

This is the perfect activity for helping your child learn the sound of the letter G. It is super simple and easy to do once you have completed the Gobble the Turkey letter G craft. All you have to do is:

• Print the Turkey Letters printable (found below).
• Cut out the letters. You can just cut a square around the letters – you don’t have to cut each individual letter shape. That would take forever! But you will want to cut the paper fairly close to the letters so they can fit into Gobble the Turkey’s mouth. Alternatively – if you have a small moveable alphabet or letter tiles, you can use those letters instead of the paper letters. I think I will use our Bananagram tiles the next time we do this activity. 

• Once you have your letters prepared, lay the letters out in front of your child. Start with the upper case letters only. Introduce the letter G to your child. Point to the uppercase G on the front of Gobble and tell her that the letter G says “g” like gobble and make the hard sound of G – such as the sound at the beginning of good, gum, ghost, etc.. 
• Tell your child that Gobble the Turkey likes to eat the letters that make a “g” sound. You can arrange the letters on a paper plate if you want to be extra silly. Ask your child to find the letters that say “g” and feed them to Gobble the Turkey. Your child should now pick up the uppercase Gs and put them in Gobble the Turkey’s mouth so he can “eat” them. You can get super silly while you do this – make Gobble devour the Gs with gusto until your child giggles with glee! I was being ridiculous with the alliteration there – and your child will love it if you act ridiculous as well! 

• As you are doing the activity, make sure you make the hard G sound over and over to reinforce the connection between the letter G and the sound that it makes. Be over the top with it. Your child will need that kind of repetition in order for it to stick. 
• If your child is catching on to the sound of letter G, you can try introducing lowercase Gs into the mix. I don’t usually usually bring lower case letters into educational activities that I do with my children until they know all of the letter sounds pretty well. Lower case letters can be confusing because some of them look quite different from the uppercase letters, and some of them (like b, d, p, and q) are very easy to mix up. But, if you think your child is ready and won’t be confused by it, I did include some lower case g letters in the Turkey Letters, as well as some other lowercase letters. If you decide to use them, make sure to emphasize to your child that the lower case G is also a G and makes the same sound. 
• More Letter G Activities

G is for Gum Balls! 

Once your child has practiced connecting the letter G to the sound that it makes, you can help your child connect the sound of letter G to the “g” sound at the beginning of words. You can do this letter G activity the same day that you introduce the sound of the letter G with the activity above, or you can do it another day when your child is fresh and has had a chance to absorb the previous lesson. Let your child be your guide. If she is acting tired or losing interest, break it up and do this activity on another day. 

Instructions:

• Print the G Pictures printable (you can find it below). Cut out the pictures. It is a good idea to leave white space around the pictures for the sake of ease and your sanity, but cut fairly close to the pictures so they are small enough to fit into Gobble’s Mouth. 
• Lay the pictures that start with the letter G out in front of your child. The letter G pictures are the following: gumball machine, granny, grass, the color green, grasshopper, ghost, girl, and grapes. Tell your child that the words in front of him start with the letter G, so they start with the “g” sound. 
• Tell your child that Gobble the Turkey likes to eat words that start with the “g” sound. Ask your child to feed Gobble the “g” words. As she does, say the word with your child and emphasize the “g” sound at the beginning of each word. You can also point to the G on the front of Gobble as you do this to reinforce the connection between the letter G and its sound. 

• If you think your child is grasping the concept of the beginning sound of G, you can try mixing the other pictures in with the G pictures. Ask your child to pick up a picture. Look at the picture with your child and ask him to say the word. Say the word with your child and emphasize the beginning sound of the word. Then ask your child if the word starts with a “g” sound (be sure to make the sound as you ask this question – do not ask your child if the word starts with the letter G). If the picture shows a word that starts with the “g” sound, feed it to Gobble! Gobble loves to eat the “g” words. If the word does not start with “g,” Gobble will not eat it. If your child does not catch on right away and struggles to identify which words start with the “g” sound, don’t worry! She will get there. And in the meantime, help her as much as she needs. 

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