When preschoolers are just learning the alphabet, anything too complex is confusing. If you are decorating eggs, do other activities which involve eggs, whether it is a coloring page or songs and rhymes. Take it one word at a time, per craft, instead of throwing in elephants, elk and elves all into one activity. Give each "e" craft a different theme, and once you have covered several different crafts start to mix several "e" words in to a single project. For instance, a map of the Earth is a complex project, but once you have covered elephants, elk, eels and eagles, giving your "e" animals an environment in which to play will be fun. Make a little stage by cutting out the bottom of a cardboard box. Help you preschoolers paint the box as home for elephant puppets with yellows for grassland and blues for water.
Once your preschoolers have been introduced to a letter, mix it up. Give them a large cut out of a letter and ask them to glue on pictures of things beginning with that letter. Create faces by asking them to glue on earrings and eyes to the cut out letter "e," or give them pictures of different animals and help them sort the eels and elephants from the mice and cats. This craft presents a visual reminder and makes for a project to hang up.
The consistent use of a given craft project means that your preschoolers create their own series of letters to make up the alphabet. For instance, they create a paper plate face for an elephant to go in their alphabet collection under "e," a paper plate with a ferret's face to go under "f" and a paper plate gorilla face to go under "g." The plate faces are placed around the walls in their bedroom, both displaying their art and achievements and creating a visual reminder of the alphabet.
Children love to be involved in a project and love to make things. Be creative with your crafts and consider what it is that your preschoolers love to do. Masks are popular and can be created from paper plates or bags. Hand or finger puppets allow children to interact with their crafts, and can be created from paper and craft sticks. An elephant face is never complete without a trunk made out of a paper towel tube, and wearable elf ears made out of paper, glue and pipe cleaners are double "e" trouble.