Explore the colors pink and purple during your unit on the letter "P." Pour white, red and blue paint into three small paper plates and give one set of paints to each student, along with a piece of thick white paper. Encourage students to mix the red and white paint on their paper until they make pink. Next, show students how to mix red and blue paint to make purple. Ask students to create a pink and purple painting to hang in the classroom.
During your unit on the letter "P," teach students about pumpkins and plan a unique painted pumpkin craft. Give each student a small pumpkin, a paint brush and pink and purple paint. Lay out newspaper on each student's desk. Encourage students to paint their pumpkin using the pink and purple paint. Students may choose to create a Jack-O-Lantern face, paint the letter "P" on the pumpkin or make pink and purple stripes.
Help students create a collage of items that begin with the letter "P." Draw a large letter "P" on a piece of white card stock and give one to each student to cut out. Give students pink and purple paint and encourage them to paint their letter. While the paint dries, give students magazines and ask them to cut out items that begin with the letter "P," such as penguins, pencils and pigs. Help students to glue the pictures they cut out to the letter "P" that they painted.
Learn about pigs during a unit on the letter "P" with a fun pig craft using paper plates and cups, as the website DLTK recommends. Give each student a paper plate and a small paper cup and encourage them to paint both items pink. While the paint dries, ask students to cut out two small triangles from pink paper. Give students a black marker and show them how to draw two large black dots on the bottom of the cup to make a pig's snout. Help students glue to the paper plate the two ears they cut out and the nose they made using the paper cup. Let students draw eyes on their pig or attach store-bought wiggly eyes.