Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter C? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter C 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 C preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!
With each lesson I create, I make 8 sections. I have found that on average, 15 minutes per project is pretty good. Although some take less and some take more. But in the end, it takes about 2 hours.
Words starting with C for preschoolers.
Clown, Cookies, Cake, Chocolate, crafts, cooking, cantaloupe, cats, crow, catfish, clapping hands, cutting, cute, Crayons, Cars, cows
the 8 parts to lesson C is:
- Welcome Play (waiting for everyone to get here)
- Introduction to the letter C
- Handwriting (print)
- Lesson on C
- Snack Time
- Story Time
- Lesson on Crows
- Story activity of Aesop’s Fable Crow and Pitcher
- Bonus Game or Singing songs till pick up
Supplies to Buy at the Store or Online
- Handwriting helpers for little hands (optional)
- Pens
- Printing Paper and Ink
- Markers/crayons/or colored pencils
- Construction paper to cut out a letter C for each child
- Colorful pom-poms (caterpillar craft)
- pipe cleaner for antennae
- googly eyes
- glue
- Supplies from the Aesop Fable blog post (pebbles, pitcher/glass/vase, black socks)
- scissors for kids (optional)
- Letter C Snacks (optional)
- Snack ideas: cookies, cakes, carrot cupcakes, chocolate, cantaloupe, crackers
- mini water cups
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 C coloring page per child
- Download and print 1 set of Crow Lesson Visuals
- Read over the Aesop’s Fable Activity, and prepare pitcher and water
- Makes sure to have everything cut and set up for the C caterpillar craft.
Night before set up:
Prepare your home with these suggestions here
Welcome craft cutting paper: Optional
If you and the parents are comfortable with the children using kids scissors, let each child practice cutting lines while they wait for everyone to arrive.
Sometimes children just need to cut paper freely. Their little hands are still working out their cutting muscles. You can print off the paper with dotted lines that is found in the visual C packet, or just give them paper and let them have at it.
Introducing The Letter C
“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 b?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s C!
C has 3 sounds! (2 if you have a primarily younger set of preschoolers).
sss like the word celebration. which means a party! and who loves parties?! But the sss sound c letter doesn’t have a lot of words that start that way.
Most C words make the sound kuh. like cat! can you make the sound kuh?
Now the last c sound comes when they are playing with their friend H. if you see CH together, it makes the sound Ch like Chuga Chuga Chuaga Choo Choo! from a train.
But today we are going to spend all the time talking about c kuh words instead! The upper case C and the lower case c looks the same, except lower case is smaller. It is really easy to make the letter C. Just do half a loop, and you are done! (show the letter Cc in visual packet)
Handwriting the letter C
Show them the C printable.
“Now everyone gets to practice writing Uppercase and Lowercase C’s. This is one of Cuh Cuh Crows, on a Cuh Cuh Cat, on a Cuh Cuh Cow. All those words start with C!
Move everyone to a table if they aren’t there yet, and give them each a paper, pen (and if you have these finger placement helpers, make sure to put them on.) They can also color the animals with crayons, colored markers, or colored pencils when they are done tracing the Cc’s and filling in the second line with their own Ccs.
Craft beginning with the letter C: Caterpillar pom-poms
In another area of the home if possible (they like to move around, make the letter C with a caterpillar and pom-poms Craft! (check out this post)
Story time Book with letter c book clown catfish.
Snack beginning with the letter C
Suggestions: cookies, cakes, carrot cupcakes, chocolate, cantaloupe, crackers. With water cups
Animal Science Lesson Beginning With The Letter C: Crows make the Cah sound.
“Who here likes birds? What kind of sounds do birds make? Those are nice little sounds, But have you ever heard a bird make this sound ‘caw caw!’ That’s the sound a crow makes. can you say crow? Crows are big black birds that love to eat food that farmers grow.
They also don’t like it when the farmers are around.
Because the farmers don’t like them eating their garden, so the farmers chase them away. So then the crows will wait till the farmer leaves, and will sneak back and attack the garden.
Well the farmers got so tired of fighting the crows all the time, they said to themselves “there has to be a way to scare the crows even when we aren’t here!” Then a farmer had an idea. “What if we just pretended to be in the garden. we could put a statue out there and dress it in our clothes, and the crows would think it is us and it will scare the crows! we’ll call it scarecrow! So they dressed up a statue to look like a person. they used pillow cases, stuffed with straw, and two sticks tied together, then they put pants full of straw and overalls, and a straw hat, and they even painted a scary face on the scarecrow. Do you think it worked?
Activity: Aesop’s Fables – The Crow and the Pebble.
Gather around the table with the supplies needed for this activity, and follow the instructions and story found here
Optional Ending Game: Car Crashes
This is literally a game my little boy made up with his ridiculous amount of hotwheel cars. So if you have a hotwheel stache, bring them out at the end, and let them crash the cars into each other.
How to play
Either with the flat orange road pieces, or not, one child pushes his car towards the other child’s car at the same time, whoever’s car flips over after crashing into each other, loses, and the next car begins the fight. It is general chaos. And might leave with overworked children. But hey, that’s why I left it till the end, when their parents can take it from there.
Songs and rhymes with letter clapping games and songs
If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands, pat-a-cake, etc,.