O is for Olympics has to be one of my favorite preschool lessons. This craft is just right for 3 and 4 year olds to do. My preschoolers are such a sweet group. I love how each of them approaches a project in their own way.
- Aliyah is a perfectionist. She takes her time to get every detail right. Due to her meticulous nature, we often have to wait for her to finish up.
- Caleb goes for accuracy. He wants his project to look just like mine or like the real thing, such as when we did our lion craft. He didn’t want the mane to be orange and yellow. A lion’s mane is brownish-tan and that is exactly how his looked. (Beautifully done, I might add.)
- Evan takes everything on with gusto. He had glue all over the page before he noticed that it should only go on the ringed outline of the “O”. No worries. Glue dries and he had fun.
It was letter “O” week. Though logic said “O is for Owl“ was the way to go, Katie, my assistant, said “No, we HAVE to do the Olympics!” She had a great idea.
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Our craft was inspired by a preschool lesson that I found pictured on Pinterest. Don’t you just love Pinterest? It is like visiting the World Library of Ideas.
We glued Fruit Loops™ onto a page to form a letter “O” as well as completing the Olympic rings. [Any colored cereal in a circle will work but I found that the colors of the generic version were not as bright as real Fruit Loops.]
This is the template that I used.
How’d it go? After 14 weeks with my students, I have come to know them pretty well. If I gave them ALL the cereal at once, those rings would never have been made. Katie agreed. Rings first, big “O” later.
So, I came in prepared with snack-size zip bags, one of each color. I called upon my “Teachers Helpers” to go around and leave one piece with each of their fellow students.
Everyone carefully glued them into the Olympic rings. Not all of the rings were the right color but, no biggie, this is preschool! When I heard the familiar “Teacher, I need more Fruit Loops” it was time to give them the rest of their cereal. It worked very, very well.
Busy little hands making their “O’s”
O is for Olympics Preschool Craft
Supplies
Fruit Loops™ cereal
“O” template printed on card stock
Elmer’s® glue
little cup for the glue
cotton swabs
Fruit Loops™ cereal
“O” template printed on card stock
Elmer’s® glue
little cup for the glue
cotton swabs
Directions
Squirt some glue into a small cup.
Using a cotton swab, dab the rings of the Olympic symbol with glue and attach a piece of cereal in each.
Now, rub glue onto the big “O” and attach cereal all around.
Some children will go “multi color” and others may want to separate it into groups of color.
Love this craft? Take a look at the OTHER Olympics games and activities we did with our O is for Olympics lesson:
O is for Olympics Preschool Lesson
Enjoy!
