Alphabet Puppy Game
As my daughter “feeds” them to the stuffed puppy, I say the letter name and she repeats it after me. Sometimes we look for a certain letter (she loves the letter “O”!), and other times we just pull whatever one is close. There is no real goal for this activity except to provide a fun way for us to talk about the letters.
We also used the bones to “sniff out” a letter. I would hide a few bones around the room and we would pretend to be dogs, sniffing around until we found a letter. Then, of course, we had to bark in excitement, and I would tell her the name of the letter. Then my sweet little puppy would take the bone to doggy bowl we’re using for pretend play (dollar store!).
I made the printable to include both upper and lowercase letters, so you could easily play a matching game with older kids or expand the dog bone hunt to involve finding the matching lowercase letter.
These could also be fun “dinosaur bones” to dig up from a sand box or other sensory bin!
Simply print the Alphabet Dog Bones, cut them out, and play!
Written by Alicia
Mihaela
Tuesday 26th of August 2014
Nice play idea! Off to share! :D
Terri
Wednesday 30th of July 2014
Thanks for sharing this. We're working on alphabet/letter recognition with my grandson and this will be a fun activity.
Shambray
Thursday 24th of July 2014
This is such a cute idea! Thank you for sharing!