7 Quick and Easy Letter D Activities Your Preschoolers Will Love

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We love having a weekly letter at our house and finding as many activities as we can managed that center around that letter… but also I’ve got a baby and preschooler and two older kids and I need these activities to be low effort (and expense) to kick off, and high yield for playtime.  That’s why we’ve put together a list of 7 Letter D activities that your preschooler won’t be able to resist. From designing dollhouses to digging for dinosaurs, these activities aren’t just educational, they’re downright enjoyable. So, grab a cup of coffee and take a few minutes to learn how you can make learning the Letter D a blast for your little one.

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D is for Dough Donuts

Using play doh is a great activity for preschoolers because it’s tactile, sensory, and engaging. You can make your own dough at home with just a few simple ingredients like flour, salt, and water or, you can purchase pre-made play doh or modeling clay from a local store.

Show your child how to use the dough to make a donut shaped circle (honestly there are lots of way this can be accomplished) then decorate the top of it with a different color dough, so it looks like icing, or by pushing little beads or sequins into it like sprinkles if mixing dough colors gives you anxiety like me.

You can make a whole donut shop together or just one or two, and if you want to get the quick air drying clay, it can make fun play food as the air clay sets really fast and has been strong and steadfast in my experience.

You can use this activity to talk about different shapes, sizes, and textures and/or let them go wild with cookie cutters, rolling pins, and plastic knives as the work on those fine motor skills.

D is for Dress Up

Want a super easy D activity? How about a round (or 5) of dress up.  This can go on as long or little as you want and it can use full costumes (I’m thinking about all my halloween leftovers) or scraps of whatever you have around you and available (like rainboots and umbrellas, or scarves and sunglasses).

You can use these get ups to play shop together or act out different roles together for as long as your little one will stay engaged or until you’re ready to move on, but the dress up activity transitions really well into my next D activity which is a Disco Dance Party (or just a Dance Party is fantastic too!)

D is for Disco Dance Party

Let your little one/s show off their moves (and possibly costumes?) with a Disco Dance Party.  Turn down the lights and grab some glow sticks if you want to take it to level 11, or just turn up the music and boogie. This is a great and silly way to get some energy out with those little Dudes and Divas.

D is for Designing a Dollhouse

If you’re ready to bring the energy back down, pop over to your table get crafting with designing some doll houses.

I’ve got a few printouts available so your little one can focus on the coloring, cutting and pasting, or you can just put out some paper and coloring supplies and see what kind of creations your preschoolers come up with on their own.

Encourage them to add furniture, wallpaper, and even accessories like tiny plants or picture frames to make the house or den feel more realistic. This activity not only helps with their fine motor skills but also fosters their imagination and design skills.

Once the dollhouse is complete, your preschoolers can play with it, creating stories and adventures for their toys. And who knows, maybe they’ll even have their own little disco dance party in their new dollhouse! Lol.

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D is for Digging for Dinosaurs (2 Activity Ideas)

And Finally, let’s take the learning outside (or inside with a tote, some ice and a little more prep) and explore the awesome world of dinosaurs by letting your preschooler become a little paleontologists, searching for buried fossils (or plastic dinosaurs) .

All you’ll need is a sandbox or a dirt area in your backyard, some plastic dinosaur skeletons.

ons or just plastic dinosaurs, and some simple digging tools, like shovels, spoons, or even paint brushes. Hide the fossils in the sand and let your preschoolers dig and excavate to find them.

Alternatively you can do this activity indoors by getting a decent sized tupperware container and freezing your little dinosaurs in it overnight.  Consider excavating these with pipettes of warm water, and spoons, or a reusable straw (If you put the straw in water and cover the top of it with a thumb or finger, it will hold the water until you release it, like a pipette)

I got our pipette set on Amazon and we actually use it a lot and enjoy it.  Here’s a link to it if you’re interested.

As they uncover the fossils, ask them questions about how they might have lived, what they looked liked, and what they ate.

Once your little ones have found all the fossils, they can pretend to be dinosaur experts or act out their own stories using the fossils.

D is for Dragons Craft

Super easy craft.  Grab some paper towel tubes, red tissue paper, scissors and a glue stick.

Cut the tissue paper into long strips and glue them all around the inside of one end of the paper towel tube to make a fire breathing dragon snout.  (Draw some nostrils on the end if you feel so inclined)

D is for Discovering Diamonds

And since dragons are known for their love of treasure we did a little treasure hunt.  We had these gems on hand from previous play (We got them off amazon here).  For this activity I hide the gems around our front room and my son went hunting for them easter egg style.  He loved it, and as soon as he had them all he insisted that he get a turn to hide them all for me.  I’m pretty sure this could have gone on for hours, he loved it so much.

D is for Dressing Up Dinos

This was a bonus and unplanned activity that my son pulled out on our D week and it was just so on theme I had to included it.  We got this “Dress Up Dino” kit from Hobby Lobby (Here are some similar activities on Amazon) and we talked like we were dinosaurs as my son dressed up the crew, and who would have guessed… we ended up having a dino house, rather than a doll house with our craft above. (This was one that I played with my son for half of it, and he happily played with it by himself for another long time while I was getting his little sister down for her nap, so it was a total win in my book)

Have any thoughts or activity ideas? If so I’d love to hear them, feel free to comment below 🙂

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