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Letter X Arts and Crafts

Stick letters
Required:
Twigs and small sticks
Glue
Cardboard or wood
That pile of sticks and twigs on your lawn or in your garden is an “alphabet in waiting.” Before using the twigs and sticks to create letters, have your child help you organize them into piles by size (an activity in itself). For pre-readers, assemble alphabet letters, then ask if anyone knows the letter’s name. For children with reading skills, you can assemble complete words for them to pronounce. The reverse of this game is to say a letter or word, and have your child fashion the letters out of the twigs and sticks.

Finally, consider making twig and stick signs with glue and a piece of cardboard or wood. Kids will enjoy making signs with their names on them, or making mailbox signs (for covered porches). And there’s a fringe benefit too; you may make your letter carrier’s job just a bit more fun to do.

X Borders
Have the children draw a picture of something having to do with a topic you are studying in the classroom. Ask them to leave a small space all around the edge of the picture, and have them make a border of colorful X’s.

Make X-rays
Give each student a piece of black construction paper and white chalk. Have them trace their hands with the white chalk onto the paper and then add “bones” inside the hand to make it look like an x-ray.

X collage
Materials:
1 “X” cut out of black paper, labeled.
4 thin rectangular-shaped gum erasers
4 pencils with eraser
white glue
Directions: Dip the long end of the gum eraser into the paint; then press on the letter. Dip the eraser end of the pencil into the paint; then, press 2 circle prints onto each corner of the long eraser print for bones.

X-traordinary Puppets
Have each child stuff a paper bag and tie it with yarn or string at the bottom. Have the children use paper to cut out and glue on eyes, ears, an X nose, and a mouth. Let them glue on scraps of yarn or draw X’s all around the top and sides of the sack for hair. Ask them to make X’s all around the bottom of the sack.

Butterfly from an X
Show the children how to make butterfly wings from an X by closing the sides of the X with lines. Have the children decorate the butterflies, adding antennae, spots, bodies, and so on.

 

Letter X Games and Activities

X Marks the Spot
Make up a map of the class room, then hide candies in different areas (in zip lock baggies). Then make “Treasure maps” for groups to work on to find the treats which were under the hidden “X”.

Have an assistant such as a parent stay and help read the questions to each group. The questions can be something like: “A place you go to cook dinner”

So the group works together to figure out it is the “home living center”. Once in that center they would search to find clue #2 and so on, until the last clue that reads something like: You will find an “X” under a blue circle, “X” marks the spot for the treasure.

The children love this. They have to work together to figure out the clues, they have to do some logical thinking and then they have to share once the treasure is found.

Large-scale Tic-Tac-Toe
Required:
Pinecones, rocks and other natural elements
Garden hoses
String or rope (not necessary for winter/beach) OPTIONAL
Flower pots
Paper plates
Fast-food containers
Markers or crayons

Who says you can only play tic-tac-toe with paper and pencil? Move the game to the big backyard, where you can play it on a large scale.

First you’ll need to create a tic-tac-toe playing board. You can do this with garden hoses or lengths of swing or rope. If you’re on the beach, dig lines in the sand. You can do the same with a fresh snowfall.

Next you’ll need some X’s and O’s.
Try these: flower pots, rocks, leaves, balls, branches, pinecones, seashells, driftwood, and other natural playing “pieces.”

During winter, try using snowballs for O’s and icicles for X’s. You and your child can also make large-scale tic-tac-toe pieces out of paper plates from picnics or from hard foam food containers from fast-food and takeout restaurants (draw X’s and O’s with markers or crayons).

For a variation, try Human Tic-Tac-Toe. With this game, the object is to get three body parts in a row- without moving off the squares!

X-rays
Show the children real X-rays if possible. When my child needed X-rays I ask for a copy of them and they gave me one free of charge after I explained. Then give them a piece of black construction paper and Q-tips to make their own x-ray. There are also X-ray fish. You can get a book from the library with pictures of these fish for you library area.

Xylophones
You could also put xylophones on your music area.

X Race
Divide the children into 3 or more teams of equal sizes. Have the first player on each team race to an X taped on the floor at a distance from the beginning spot. When they reach the X, have them stop and jump to form an X with their bodies. Then have them run back; tap the next person on the shoulder, saying X; and sit down at the end of their line. The first team with everyone sitting down is the winner.

X People
Have the children pretend to be X people. Tell them you will ask them to move in certain ways, at the same time keeping their bodies in an X shape. Call out movements such as running, walking, jumping, hopping, leaping, lying down, tiptoeing, and going backward.

 

Letter X Recipes and Snacks

X-shaped cookies
Shape cookie dough into X shapes.

Directions: Roll some dough into a 3-inch log. Place 1 log on cookie sheet and press lightly in the center.
Place another 3-inch log on top of the first one, forming an X shape.

X-cellent Punch!
Combine lime or pineapple sherbet with ginger ale or Sprite. Stir well.

 

Letter X Songs, Poems and Finger Plays

X-ray Technician Song
(Tune: Hokey Pokey)
I put the film in,
I take the film out, I put the film in
And I turn you all about.
I am a technician
And I take the X-rays out.
That’s what it’s all about.

I take an x-ray one,
I take an x-ray two,
I take an x-ray three
To show what’s inside of you.
I am a technician
And I take the X-rays out.
That’s what it’s all about.

 

 

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