How to Draw and Learn Letter Ff for Kids

How to Draw and Learn Letter Ff for Kids 

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Activate letter learning with Elliot, his dad and our letter Ff video tutorial for kids and learning resources for kids. Learn the letter sound, how to print an upper and lower case version. Then draw giant versions of letter Ff. Go ahead and help captivate letter learning today with Elliot and myABCdad Learning for Kids.

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Inside the video

After Elliot’s brilliant introduction, I slow down the sound the letter Ff makes. I also share an action. Actions can be triggers, helping tremendously when reviewing letter names and sounds. With 26 letters in the English alphabet, all with a name and a myriad of sounds, having an action to help jog the memory is not only helpful for Elliot, but also his dad sometimes. Elliot has a go at forming the same sound and action. Elliot looks carefully at me and the shape of my mouth when making the sound and then repeats.

I also try to provide a real world example of where Elliot might have heard the sound in the past. In the case of letter Ff, I convey the idea of squeezing air out of a ball. Before shifting to printing and drawing examples of upper and lower case letter Ff’s, Elliot and I present our examples from the letter Ff download.

The printing and drawing

Our tutorial then shifts to having a go at printing upper and lower case examples. I demonstrate on a blank piece of paper, walking and talking my through the process. Elliot listens and follows along. We then shift to drawing giant versions. Learning to draw block, giant versions of letters is a step that helps bring letters to life. As the big, fat, juicy shapes invite colouring, and indeed spending more time reflecting on the shape of letter and the sound it makes.

Helping extend our experience with letter Ff, we then choose from several printing and pattern worksheets. Ten worksheet options are available to choose from. Elliot chooses to colour in Ff’s with a background of stars. I choose the Ff’s with a grid of large squares. I speed up this part of the video to help decrease the length.

Although we use large black Sharpie markers to print and draw throughout the video, we only do so to help you have a better viewing experience. Although mistakes can be drastically exacerbated with a thick black tip pen, the actually gripping size of the Sharpie is a good fit for Elliot’s hand size.

More about the download

There are many outstanding worksheet options to help promote letter learning and printing practise. From experience as a teacher and a dad, I am aware that children about Elliot’s age sometimes find the sizing of letters tricky. Most printing worksheets present a standard size font. In making this particular flavour, crazy large dashed print are offered as tracing examples, followed by two more diminishing sizes. This becomes an opportunity to help highlight the fact that sometimes we need to print large versions of letters and sometimes smaller ones.

I have also left out a starting point or arrows indicating direction. As a general rule, I found the more stuff, the more confusing the letter becomes.  I also know that allowing flexibility, enabling children to take risks and try their own, most comfortable direction, is a great entry point to keeping printing practise positive. Instead of telling how it needs to be done, I model from time to time, trying to reinforce why I choose to start at the top and move to the bottom, or from left to right. Sometimes, it is simply down to a child wanting to start right and move to left because they are left handed. I am not. In any case, much like starting to speak, read and write, learning to print is a process and prospers in an open-minded, inclusive environment.

When to begin

The opinions of when to begin learning letters varies and is vast. So, in short, try asking the child or inviting them to tell you the right time to start. Or if that sounds to contrived, then immerse them in language experiences and listen to their growing interest. For Elliot, and now his little brother, Gabriel, my wife and I have made before bed reading a routine from a very early age. At the end of the day, their level of interest and willingness to ask questions and investigate letters and words from stories and information books correlates very much with ours. What you put in is generally what you get out…


Thanks for reading, watching and having a go.

Elliot and his dad…

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