Letter of the Week O Craft

O is for Orange! This Letter of the Week O Craft pairs well with orange slices as a snack (or if you want a treat, you could use candy orange slices) for the kids!

This letter of the week craft pairs well with our A for Apple craft if you’re learning about fruit or healthy foods with your kids!

LETTER OF THE WEEK O CRAFT

If you’re looking for some things to do along with this letter of the week craft, here are some ideas that the kids enjoy:

• Oranges as a snack – you can taste test different ones or practice peeling them for fine motor skills
• Read a book with a character whose name starts with O – one of my favorites is Owen by Kevin Henkes
• Go on a scavenger hunt for items that begin with the letter O
• Go on a hunt for things that are the color orange

There are a lot of fun ways to help your child explore the alphabet!

LETTER O CRAFT MATERIALS

To make this craft you’ll need orange, bright green, brown, and yellow card stock or construction paper. You’ll also need scissors, a pencil, and a glue stick. 

You can either draw a letter O and cut it out or use our Letter O Craft printable. Print it on card stock and then cut it out or print it and use it as a stencil on construction paper.

• Orange, white, bright green, brown and yellow card stock or construction paper – (Buy my favorite card stock!)
• Glue stick
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Black marker
• Letter O printable template, if desired

HOW TO MAKE LETTER O CRAFT

Draw a letter O onto a sheet of orange paper and cut it out with scissors. If you don’t want to draw it, you can print our letter O template and cut it out. If you use card stock, you can print directly on it. But if you’re using construction paper, I recommend that you print the O on another sheet of paper, cut it out, and use it as a tracing template.

DOWNLOAD THE PRINTABLE TEMPLATE

Once you have an orange letter O, glue it to the center of a sheet of yellow paper.

Then draw and cut out a half-circle shape from orange paper. 

Cut 4 small white triangles from white paper. Make them small enough to fit into the orange half-circle. These will become an orange slice.

Glue the white triangles in the orange half-circle. You want the flat side of your triangles to be facing the curved edge of the half-circle.

Glue the orange slice to the bottom left side of the letter O with the flat edge of the slice facing in towards the center of the letter O.

Cut a thin brown rectangle shape to be a stem for the orange. Cut out a green leaf shape. Glue both to the top of the letter O so it looks like a stem and a leaf.

Trace around the orange slice with a black marker so it stands out from the letter O.

Be sure to check out all of our letter of the week crafts to help keep your kids busy!

Letter of the Week O Craft

Active Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Celebrate the letter O and learn more about the alphabet with this hands-on letter of the week craft!

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Materials

• Orange, white, bright green, brown and yellow card stock or construction paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Letter O Template

Instructions

1. Draw a letter O on orange paper and cut it out. (Or use the printable letter O template).
2. Glue the O to the center of a sheet of yellow paper.
3. Draw and cut an orange half-circle.
4. Cut four white triangles that will fit inside of the orange half-circle.
5. Glue the white triangles onto the orange half-circle with a flat edge of the triangles facing the curved side of the orange piece.
6. Glue the orange half circle on the lower left side of the orange to be an orange slice.
7. Cut a thin brown rectangle. Glue to the top of the letter O.
8. Cut a green leaf shape. Glue it to the top of the letter O next to the brown stem.
9. Trace the orange slice with a black marker to make it pop out from the letter O orange.