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Alphabet Puppy Play

Alphabet Puppy Play
In an effort to expose my daughter to the alphabet in a fun, pressure-free way, I’ve been working to integrate it into our play.  This week we have been learning about pets, so I made these ABC dog bones to feed our “pet” puppy with this alphabet puppy game!
 
alphabet puppy play
 

 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!).

alphabet puppy pretend play

 

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!