Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter L? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter L crafts and preschool ideas, then put it together for a full 2 hour preschool lesson.
Welcome to Preschool Co Op! If you are wanting to know how to start an at home preschool co op, go here for beginning instructions. If you are all set, and just want to hop into the Letter L preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!
This lesson is a little different than the other ones in this series. We don’t have a formal lesson, just fun activities to test their Five Senses skills.
Preschool Words Starting With L
Lion, lollipops, licks (taste), Love, Lose.win, laughter, lemons, limes, lambs, long, look, listen, (five senses), lalala linoleum, lift, lilacs.
the 8 parts to lesson D is:
- Welcome Play (Folding Laundry)
- Introduction to the letter L
- Sesame Street Lalala Song
- Handwriting L (print)
- Five Senses Introduction And Blank Face
- Lilac Smelling Activity (Cotton Ball Smelling)
- Look: Sight Activity (magnifying glass treasure hunt)
- Listen: hearing Activity (outside scavenger hunt)
- Licking: Tasting Activity (snack ideas for tasting)
- Lifting: Touch Activity (touching senses activity)
- Loving: Feeling Activity (Drawing heart)
Supplies to Buy at the Store or Online
- Handwriting helpers for little hands (optional)
- Pens
- Printing Paper and Ink
- Markers/crayons/or colored pencils
- scissors
- Tape (double sided optional)
- Glue
- Clipboard for each child (not required but super useful).
- Cupcake Liners
- Cotton Balls
- Smells for the cotton balls (optional. You can use whatever you find at the house)
- Magnifying Glass (share, or buy one per child Cheap)
- Items for Touching Senses Activity Suggestions: sandpaper/sandy, feather/soft, scratchy/sponge, crumpled aluminum/bumpy, paper that has glue and honey mixed on it/gooey, parchment paper/smooth.
- Snack ideas: Lemonade (taste test Ideas)
- mini water cups
- Optional activity: Paper cups, String, for telephone.
Optional Note: Many people have asked for just the coloring handwriting pages that I made for each letter. You can find each of them for FREE on each letter lesson plan. OR you can BUY IT as a digital download (CLICK HERE) or a physical copy (CLICK HERE)
Prep Work
Week before: go over supply list and buy all the online items.
2 days before: Go on a shopping trip to pick up the rest of the needed supplies.
Day Before:
Printables:
- Download and print 1 handwriting L coloring page per child
- Download and print 1 set of Letter V Visuals/Five Senses Combo
- Download and print Sound Hunt for each child(only page #3)
- *The Sight scavenger hunt is in the visuals packet
- *Heart is in Visuals packet – one for each child
- *Head with eyes, ears, nose mouth, and hands in visual packet. One for each child
Night before set up:
Buckle up because this lesson takes a lot of prep work!
I’m going to walk you through each section:
Welcome activity
– have laundry in a laundry basket by the door waiting for them to come in and help.
L lesson
– Have the upper and lowercase L page ready to show them. Have sesame street video ready, and the Letter L handwriting printed for each child with pens and crayons ready.
Five senses:
Have the page that shows six senses ready to show them. Also have a blank face page ready for each child, and the nose, ears, eyes, mouth, and hands cut out enough for each child. You don’t have to print off the done for you one. It was just to show how it is supposed to be put together. If you have one child, you can print the page that has them all on it minus the face. If you have several, you may consider printing off the extra pages. be prepared with tape.
Taste:
Take a good look at the website suggestions, and be prepared to have items cut up if needed, and stored in small containers if possible. I suggest buying mini muffin liners that you can put individual tastings in. You can choose to blindfold them or not. If so, have one ready. And of course, little cups with lemonade is good.
Smell:
Yet again, you can use muffin liners to hold the cotton balls. Dip cotton balls into items that smell. Check out your fridge, spice cupboard, and bathroom, for ideas. And then they’ll just say what they think it is after everyone has a chance to smell it.
Or you can also use the pictures I put up. Print off one smell paper for each child, and they should put a sticker over the picture they think it is. So if they sniffed cottonball #1 (write 1 on the bottom of the muffin liner) and they think it smells like vanilla, they will cover the picture vanilla with a 1 sticker. (with plain circle stickers, just use a marker and write the numbers on it for each child. No need for special, already numbered, stickers).
Sight:
print and cut out the visual clues for the treasure hunt, and hide them where they go with tape so they won’t accidently move between now and the activity. The square is big, but the picture is small so they can use a magnifying glass. After they follow the clues, make sure you have the small treat hidden at the end.
Sound:
Print off one scavenger hunt paper for each child. Keep pens nearby for the walk outside. have sound effects on your phone if you think you’ll need them.
Optional: instead of doing a scavenger hunt outside. Cut out a small hole in plastic cups, tie a string inside that leads to another cup (here) and then pair up each child and have them tell jokes to the other person by whispering into the cup.
Touch:
Print out the 6 hands for each child. and cut up into tiny squares the following: sandpaper/sandy, feather/soft (don’t cut up), scratchy/sponge, crumpled aluminum/bumpy, paper that has glue and honey mixed on it/gooey, parchment paper/smooth.
Heart:
Download and print 1 heart for each child. And have markers ready for them to use.
welcome Activity L is for Laundry
L is for Laundry. Bring a pile of clean clothes down and teach them how to fold and organize (No, I’m not joking. Teaching children basic housework is an essential aspect of life). You can even choose to bring down all of your towels and washcloths, and just concentrate on teaching them how to fold (or roll) towels.
Introducing The Letter L
Welcome everyone, do you remember what letter we learned last time? what was it’s sound? Do you remember any of the words that start with K?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s L!
L makes the sound llll or lalala. like in lion. it is easy to draw. a line down, and a line forward at the bottom. and a lowercase L is just a line down. that’s it!
Watch La La La from Sesame Street
Handwriting: the letter L
Gather everyone to the table with pens and coloring pencils or crayons, and have them practice writing uppercase and lowercase L with this free printable, and the preschoolers can color the picture afterwards.
Lesson on The Five Sense.
We are going to have a lesson on the 5 senses. There are five ways we can find out about the world we live in. What do you think they are? You can LLL Look with your eyes. that sense is called sight. you can LLL listen with your ears, that is called hearing, you can L Llick with your tongue. that is called taste. You can L L Lift things with your hands, that is called touch. and you can smell L L Lilacs with your nose, that is called smelling!
Looking with your eyes
Listening with your ears
Licking with your tongue
Lifting and touching with your hands
Lilac and other smelling with your nose.
Each of you get a blank head. It looks just like a circle because it doesn’t have anything on it yet! We are going to tape ours to the wall, and every time we conquer one of our five senses, we can put it on our heads! (write the child’s name on the upper corner of their page, and tape it to the wall).
Snack beginning with the letter L: Licking/Taste Test
Our first task is the Licking, or taste test. Are you ready? Let’s go into the kitchen.
I’m going to blindfold everyone, and you are going to have to guess what the food is that i’m giving you for snacks. (blindfold one child at a time, and pick one food per child to taste blindfolded, but give the food to everyone. If you can, pick something sweet, salty, savory, spicy. and sour. once everyone is testing the foods, ask them what words they would use to describe the food without saying the name of the food.
When they are done, hand them the mouth/tongue and have them use a glue stick (or double sided tape) to put it on their face that is on the wall.
Lilac Smelling Activity.
Now it is time to Check out our sense of smell.
We don’t have to put the blindfold on for this one, we have all of these cottonballs here. Numbered 1-12. Now everyone gets to smell the cotton balls, and you are going to write what number you think it goes to on this paper I’m going to give you. Like a Scientist does.
When finished, Hand them each a nose to put on their face.
Looking Sight Activity.
Hand each child a magnifying glass. We are going to be using these to find the clues that will lead us to the treasure. But you’ll have to look carefully!
(cut out the squares, and hide them around the house. the clue should lead to the next place. pick the last place and hide a quick, clean, treat there.)
To make it so each child participates, you can have them go one at a time, or follow along with them and assign which child finds and ‘reads’ the next clue.
When done hand each child the eyes.
Listening Hearing Activity.
I love this outside Listening scavenger hunt. Go on a small walk, and have them be really quiet and listen for sounds on their paper. You can even play certain sound on your phone while walking with them if you need to.
Optional: If weather or other circumstances make a walk not a good idea. You can either play the sounds on your phone, and have them still do the activity inside, or use the whisper game on cup telephones to help them listen better.
Hand they ears.
Lifting our sense of touch.
Everyone gets a page with 6 hands on it. And the glue on the hand what they feel. A feather will go on soft, a wrinkled-then straightened aluminum piece will go on bumpy, etc.
Hand them hands.
Love our feelings.
Have them write or draw something that they love on the heart.