Lowercase Letter V Craft for Preschool Vulture Craft

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Vultures are mysterious and kind of disgusting, but they do serve an important role in our environment. Learn all about vultures and the letter V when you make this Lowercase Letter V Craft. Practice the shape and sound of V as you create a vulture from the shape of the letter.

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Practice the Letter V

Look around your home together for things that start with the letter V. When you find something, say the name of the item and emphasize the sound of the letter. Items you could look for could include a vase, village buildings, Visa card, van, VHS player, vehicles, vest, vacuum, V-Wing lego set, videos.

Make a quick and easy set of letter V flashcards with printer paper and a sharpie. Just write the letter about six times per piece of paper and cut them apart. Use these for a hide and seek game with the letter V. Similar to hiding Easter eggs, you can hide the letter V cards all over your home, and have the kids search for them.

Extension Activities for the Vulture Craft

Adding related learning activities can help solidify the information learned even more. This is how the human brain works, and preschool is the perfect time to take advantage of the benefits of thematic learning. Try a few of these extension activities to go with the lowercase letter V craft.

Read Books About Vultures

You will find a few picture books about vultures on this fantastic List of Letter V Books. Reading books about vultures will help solidify the shape and sound of the letter V in your child’s memory. As you read the books, point out the letter V on the page, and emphasize the sound when it is at the beginning of the word.

Vulture Science

Watch a video about vultures to learn about this disgustingly amazing creatures.

Vulture Craft

Make a super cute toilet paper roll vulture.

Vulture Yoga Pose

Try this Vulture Yoga Pose with your kids. This artist has a different yoga pose for each letter of the alphabet.

Vulture Toys

• Plastic Vulture figure.
• Stuffed Vulture Plushie.

Setting up the Lowercase Letter V Craft

When you are ready to make the craft with your student, set out all of the materials on the table so that everything is ready to go. Watch the video or read a book about vultures and show your child the letter V. You can do this by writing it on a piece of paper really big, or by pointing to the letter on the cover of the book.

Emphasize the letter sound and brainstorm different words that start with V besides vulture. Video, velociraptor, and vegetables are three examples of words that start with V. Tell your child these three examples to help get them thinking of ideas.

When you finish this craft, wait a few days and make the Uppercase Letter V Craft. Between this post and that one, you will find dozens of ideas to help reinforce the shape and sound of the letter V.

Materials for the Lowercase Letter V Craft

• black construction paper
• pink construction paper
• orange construction paper
• white construction paper
• construction paper for the background (color of choice)
• googly eyes
• glue
• scissors
• alternative – white paper and crayons

Instructions for the Lowercase Letter V Craft

1. Draw the cut pieces as shown in the image above with a thick marker. Then have your child proceed with the instructions below.
2. Cut out a lowercase v and 2 wings from the black paper.
3. Next, cut out 2 feet and a beak from the orange paper.
4. Then cut out a circle for a head from the pink paper
5. Next, cut out a cloud-shaped collar for the vulture’s neck from the white paper.
6. Then glue down the v towards the bottom of the backing paper
7. Next, glue down the 2 wings on either side of the v.
8. Then glue down the feet at the bottom of the v.
9. Next, glue down the pink circle for the vulture’s head on the top right of the v.
10. Then glue down the white collar at the bottom of the head.
11. Next, glue down the beak on the right slide of the head.
12. Finally, glue down the googly eyes in the middle of the head.