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!

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