Is your toddler or preschooler interested in exploring beginning letter sounds? This activity is for you! This activity happened on accident but turned out to be a fun one to work on together. Fold your paper into a grid and take turns drawing the letters and something that starts with that letter in each box. …
Give an Alphabet Board Game a try. When you land on a letter you say the letter, its sound, or something that starts with that letter. So much fun! You could play this any way that you want, just naming the letter or sound. These alphabet games give the opportunity for young children to …
When B was younger he always wanted to type on my keyboard so I bought him this one from Goodwill for $3. It has been great to use for “his office” and other pretend play! Here are some other uses for this inexpensive keyboard: Identifying letters and numbers – “Can you find and push …
Lately, B has been pointing to letters in books and saying “Why’d they make the g (or a) look like that?” So I decided to print the alphabet in different fonts and have him sort it. This was a really neat letter font sort activity. Not only did it give him practice identifying letters but also putting them …
Do you have one of these ABC mats at your house? Besides using the pieces as a puzzle, you can also have an ABC Hunt. After you try the ABC Hunt, here are several other ways you can use this alphabet mat. ABC Beginning Sounds Hunt We searched the house for …
Next time you are at a restaurant with chopsticks, make chopstick letters! We were at a Chinese restaurant the other day and I was telling B that sometimes people eat rice with chopsticks. I was trying to show him what I meant and we were giggling as I failed over and over again. “Do you …
I’ve had this dorky dream for a long time that when B got older and started getting interested in the alphabet, that we would make an alphabet book with pictures of us forming letters with our bodies. The Letter A Here is the first and ONLY picture for our book. B wasn’t interested at all. …
B is going through a phase again where he is obsessed with letters. He wants to talk about them, sing about them, put them in order, match them, and have them rescue each other. The Melissa and Doug letters are my favorite! I made this quick letter puzzle for him (similar to the outline mat …
There are so many ways you can use lima bean letters to make learning fun! This alpha beans idea from Creative Jewish Mom is another fun and inexpensive way to “play” with the alphabet. I wrote the alphabet (upper and lowercase) on lima beans using a Sharpie. She recommends putting on a clear finishing coat but …
This alphabet sorting activity is great for working on identifying letters and putting them in alphabetical order. It is really inexpensive to put together. I used foam letter stickers from the Target dollar spot (any letter sticker or letter magnet would work) and the three trays are actually shelves found at the Dollar Tree. The …
For this simple letter matching activity, I drew hearts on a piece of paper and wrote upper and lowercase letters in them. I had B put the matching letter sticker in the heart. (This activity could be done with any shape.) I mixed up the letters (instead of putting them in abc order) to make …
Try this Mystery Letters activity with your Preschooler or Kindergartener. They will use what characteristics they know about the letters to pick out the right one. I had B pick out 3 Melissa and Doug magnetic letters and we put them into a brown paper bag. I asked him if he could reach his arm …