Y Is for Yo-yo Craft

Your preschoolers will yell “Yippee!” when they see the playful toy in this entertaining ABC Craft! Though a real yo-yo requires some practice (and a few tangled strings), your child will have this letter Y craft mastered in minutes!

Here’s What You’ll Need

• 2 sheets of printer paper
• Card stock (we used yellow, blue, orange, and white)
• Y Is for Yo-yo Craft templates
• Glue stick
• Pencil and scissors

Instructions for Assembling Your Lowercase Y Craft

1. Print the Y Is for Yo-yo Craft templates.
2. Cut out the templates and trace the letter Y and the yo-yo pieces onto card stock.
3. Cut out the letter Y and yo-yo pieces.
4. Glue the letter Y onto a full sheet of card stock (we used yellow, but you can use any color you like).
5. To assemble the yo-yo, glue the white string compartment between the yo-yo front and back pieces, off-setting the pieces slightly so that all the layers show on the right side of the yo-yo as shown in the example.
6. Glue the blue decorative circle onto the front of the yo-yo.
7. Affix the star to the blue decorative circle.
8. Position the string and the yo-yo beneath the right side of the letter Y as shown in the example and glue in place.

Learning with Your Letter Y Craft

As you and your child assemble your Y Is for Yo-yo Craft, practice saying /y/–/y/–yo-yo together. You can find more tips for working on pre-reading skills with your preschooler in this handy download.

We would LOVE to see how your lowercase Y craft turns out! Please share your photos with us on our Facebook page, or tag your Instagram photos with the hashtag #allaboutABCcrafts!

Want More ABC Crafts?

Free Lowercase ABC Letter Crafts

For crafts that start with lowercase letters A through Z, get the complete printable set of ABC Craft for Lowercase Letters.

Free Uppercase ABC Letter Crafts

For crafts that start with uppercase letters A through Z, get the complete printable set of ABC Craft for Uppercase Letters.

Photos by: Rachel Neumann