Promote letter awareness with a flashlight and a blank wall in your preschool classroom. Let the children find a comfortable spot on the floor facing a wall. Give each child a copy of a printed uppercase alphabet and a crayon. Turn off the classroom lights, but make sure enough light is still available so the children can see to mark their alphabet papers. Sit behind the children and point the flashlight at the wall, turn it on and write one letter in light on the wall. If the children have trouble figuring out the letter, write it again and describe the letter as you form it with light. Ask the children to circle the letter you wrote. Switch to lower case letters when the children have mastered recognition of the upper case alphabet in light.
Tape laminated pictures and phrases that represent skills the class is working on to one of the walls in your preschool room. Mount a picture of a shoe with laces for shoe-tying or a photo of a flag to represent memorization of the Pledge of Allegiance. Come up with 10 or more skills to add to the wall display. Place a strip of Velcro on or next to each skill you have represented with a picture. Velcro strips are available where sewing supplies are sold. Place Velcro strips on a ping pong ball so that most of the ball is covered. Youngsters can take turns tossing the ball at a picture and when it sticks, demonstrating the corresponding skill.
Gather 10 familiar classroom items and place them in a bag before the children arrive for preschool. Include items that tie in with the current classroom theme or use items that are the same color or those that begin with the same letter. Line up enough classroom chairs for the children to sit in a semi-circle facing a blank wall in the classroom. Turn off the lights and position yourself in a chair behind them. Choose one item from your bag and illuminate it with a flashlight so that the item's shadow is projected on the wall. Let the children call out guesses until the object has been named. Group all of the objects together at the end of the game and ask the children to explain what makes the objects similar or different.