Celebrate National Sock Day

November 9, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

For some reason National Sock Day is coming up on Dec. 3, so let’s talk about some ways to celebrate at home or in the classroom.

Of course first off you need to declare it a silly sock day, and while mismatched socks are a classic for silly sock days, the point of National Sock Day (such that it can be said to have one) is to celebrate the pairs of socks that have stuck together.

Kids can design their own silly socks with this simple printable sock from My Cute Graphics, or use the sock coloring pages from Craft Corner DIY. It would be lots of fun to decorate the classroom with everyone’s silly socks!

The first sock-related book I think of is Fox in Socks, which is always fun to read aloud. Two Pink Peonies has a more Seuss-style printable sock if you like that better. Simply Love Coloring has coloring pages to go with the book. Your kids can sort rhyming words with this printable from Literacy Learn (I had to read the post to realize the words we’re rhyming with are fox and bricks).

Print up a bunch of colorful socks from My Party Design, hide them around the classroom/house and have kids find them and make pairs. Or do this with your mismatched socks and just go on a sock hunt! The Aristan Life has another printable sock matching game and I love that she added hanging the matched pairs on a clotheline (yeah for fine motor skill development!).

And if you’ve got real socks handy you can make some crafts with socks. Making sock snowmen is an annual tradition at my daughter’s school and you can learn how to make them from Art Beat. Or make this cute inchworm from an old sock with instructions from Woo Jr. Of course you can also make a classic sock puppet with this tutorial from Kids Activity Zone.

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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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