Kindergarten letters games
The Ultimate List of Alphabet Activities For Kindergarten
Do you need some easy alphabet activities for kindergarten? We’ve got a great list of fun activities for your classroom! You’ll find games, printables, videos, and a whole list of ideas for to help your Kinders learn their letters. Lots of ideas for independent or group learning.
This resource works well with these Simply Kinder resources:
What Does It Mean To Teach The Alphabet?
Teaching the alphabet encompasses letter identification, letter sounds, and using those letters to spell out words. Early learners need meaningful hands on experiences as they learn their letters.
Why Do We Emphasise The Alphabet?
According to a number of studies, the single best predictor of reading success is a student’s ability to recognize and name the upper- and lower- case letters of the alphabet. It makes sense doesn’t it? After all child who can easily and accurately recognize of letters will find it easier to learn letter sounds and blends.
Receiving clear instruction on letters of the alphabet is important in Kindergarten. One of the skills that early leaders have to learn is how our alphabetic language works.
The Best Ways To Teach The Alphabet
Some of the best ways to teach letters and sounds to early learners include:
- Teaching and singing alphabet songs often.
- Create a print rich environment
- Reading to your students often (Looking at words as they are read, provides informal instruction about letters, letter sounds, and words.
- Posting alphabet charts in your classroom (at the Kinders’ eye level).
- Using letter and word games that require learners to identify the letters and their sounds.
- Using plastic, magnetic, tile, or wooden letter manipulatives.
- Incorporate writing, so that your students experience the alphabet and see it in action.
Let’s start with the basics
This post has a lot of tips to help you learn how to teach the alphabet.
Alphabet song Videos
One of my favorite alphabet activities for kindergarten is to show short YouTube videos. Kids love them and it makes teaching so easy! So here are some fun, quick, and simple videos you can use to reinforce all the letters names!
Harry Kindergarten – Learnin’ My Letters (Run time 2:08)
Do You Know Your Alphabet by Harry Kindergarten (2:41)
Next are videos that help with sounds. Here’s the collection I always pull from!
Have Fun Teaching has songs for each letter. Here is A
Learn the letters and their sounds with Jack Hartman
Also check out our teacher approved videos for each letter
Interactive webpagesthat teach the alphabet
Here are some interactive web pages that kids enjoy using . Now these are games (or contain multiple games or alphabet activities for kindergarten) that I would feel comfortable using whole group during instruction.
Starfall has short quick interactive videos for each letter. Children can explore each letter. Check them out here.
PBS has some fabulous activities for younger learners. I particularly love Letter Dance Party
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Fun Alphabet Resources To Make Planning Easy
- Alphabet count down ideas will take you through the last 26 days of school to review the alphabet and have some fun.
- My students love making hats! We’ve got one for every letter!
- Kids also like alphabet crafts and we have one craft for every letter. They are super easy to prepare. Just print out the sheets and you are ready to go.
- Printable Alphabet Interactive notebooks. These little notebooks invite kids to explore the letters. They learn to read, write, and hear letter names and sounds. Loads of activities and a lot of fun
- Alphabet I spy 26 printables for the alphabet invites students to hunt and search for the pictures that start with the given sound.
Alphabet Activities for Kindergarten Literacy Centers
- Do you have a box of ‘alphabet stuff’ but aren’t sure what to do with it? Here is a list of 30+ Alphabet Tub Activities that you can use to help your students learn their letters and sounds!
- Free Printable Letter matching game. This free printable letter matching game is always a hit! This version helps students match uppercase and lowercase letters.
- Apple Alphabet Match. Here is another letter matching game, but this one has a fall theme
- Alphabet Play Dough Mats are always popular and the kids will build muscle memory as they shape the letters
- Fish Friends Alphabet Centre is a fun sensory tub game that practices letter identification.
- Another ocean-themed alphabet sensory bin provides practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters, and more.
Looking For More Alphabet Activities?
- We have a collection of alphabet products in the shop.
- Check out my Simply Kinder’s Alphabet Activities Pinterest board
Alphabet Activities
Your Turn
What are your go to alphabet activities for kindergarten? What would you add to the list? Please make a comment below.
Alphabet Games for Preschool and Kindergarten
These alphabet games for preschool and kindergarten make learning the alphabet a playful and engaging experience.
Your kids will love these alphabet games!
I love it when I can use games to teach my kids any skill and one of my favorite way to teach the alphabet is by using alphabet games. So, I figured it was about time that I shared a list of my favorite alphabet games for preschool and kindergarten.
If you are looking for fun alphabet activities for your kids, then this post is perfect for you! You’ll find lots of awesome alphabet games that your kids will enjoy!
Our most popular alphabet game is this super fun letter sounds alphabet game! Work on any letters you want and kids can win without even knowing any of the sounds. This is a great way to encourage children who are just beginning to learn letter sounds or who may be struggling with them. My kids LOVE this!
This bear alphabet activity is an excellent way to teach letter recognition and letter sounds to preschoolers. It’s a great ABC activity for a bear theme!
This Alphabet Relay Game is excellent for getting kids moving, indoors or out, while helping to teach letters.
It is super easy to set up and is sure to be a blast!
If your kids like playing board games, this is perfect for them. The Roll and Color Alphabet Game was a huge hit in our house and my son really enjoyed practicing the alphabet.
In our house we love doing learning activities based on books, movies or stories. My son loved this Jack and the Beanstalk Alphabet Game more than I ever thought he would!
I really enjoy making printable games that are inspired by board games or games that I played as a child or that I play with my kids. The Alphabet Battle Letter Learning Game is an incredibly easy way to play with the alphabet and have fun at the same time!
Another great alphabet activity inspired by a fun game is Letter Sounds KABOOM Game. I love watching my kids learn letter sounds and with this activity they love it too!
Whether it’s winter or you’re wishing for snow, the Snowball Throw Alphabet Game is an indoor active and fun way to learn letters, especially in the winter!
We had so much fun with this Rainbow Hop Letter Sounds Game! This is a life-size board game that is perfect for getting active while helping to learn the alphabet.
Learning the Alphabet with Games
Incorporating toys that children already love is an excellent way to help teach them. The Jumping Frog Alphabet Game incorporates the excitement of jumping frogs and beginning alphabet sounds.
This ‘a-maze-ing letter game‘ is perfect for a child who loves to play with cars. This is perfect for letter recognition, forming sight words and more!
Memory games are exciting and a great tool for teaching letter recognition. This Letter Matching Memory Game with spoons is colorful and inexpensive to set up as well!
A genius idea for rainy day play. The Erase the ABCs activity will help kids with letter recognition in a simple way that requires almost no cost or set up!
This Alphabet Roll & Cross is a great DIY for toddlers who are learning letter recognition. Even if kids don’t know letter identification, they will be able to match the letters from the box.
Another simple DIY that includes recycled materials is the Alphabet Ping Pong Drop.
How fun is this? Kids will love matching letters with this exciting game!
Sharks need to eat too and they can with this Feed The Shark Alphabet Game. Perfect for a summer shark theme!
Fun ABC Games
A fun printable activity, Alphabet Four In A Row, that can help kids learn the alphabet as well as strategy, counting and more. Plus it can be done in the car, in a waiting room, or at the kitchen table!
Which letter has the prize? Kids will find out in this super fun and mysterious ABC Cup Hunt. This activity is shown with single letters but could easily be used with sight words, numbers, math equations and more.
A great activity for preschoolers is the Paper Plate BIG Alphabet Memory Game. It is played just as any other memory game but is magnified on big paper plates. Kids will LOVE the variety of the size and learn ABCs in no time!
I hope your kids enjoy these alphabet games as much as my kids do! And don’t forget to check out my giant list of alphabet activities too!
Games with letters for preschoolers
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Author of the methodological development:
Moreva Natalia Sergeevna ,
teacher of the highest qualification preschool education category TsRR Kindergarten No. 24, Ishim, Tyumen Region
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Fishing
Goal: memorize letters, develop coordination of movements.
Age: from 3-4 years old.
What you will need: fish pictures (from bingo or children's magazines/paper cutouts), paper clips, colored pencils or felt-tip pens, string (30 cm long), magnet, ruler (20-30 cm long), tape , hoop (blue scarf / blue rug / blue blanket), bucket.
How to play?
Before the start of the game, you need to make a fishing rod and a “catch”. To make a fishing rod, tie a string to the ruler, and attach a magnet to the end of the string (you can tie it or stick it with tape). On the fish, write the letters that your child currently remembers.
Attach a paperclip “on the nose” to each fish.
Put a hoop on the floor - it will be a "lake". Instead of a hoop, you can use a large scarf, blanket, rug, blue or light blue. "Launch" the fish into the lake - put all the fish in a hoop. Now your child, like a "real fisherman", can fish in the lake. The main rule of the game: only that fish is considered to be caught, the “name” of which (the letter attached to it) the child can recognize. The entire catch of the fisherman is added to the bucket.
Pay attention! Before starting the game, decide for yourself how it is more beneficial for your child to turn the fish in the lake - letters up or letters down. If the child will see what letters are written on the fish, then, perhaps, he will not specifically “catch” fish with letters unfamiliar to him. On the other hand, if the fish are turned upside down, you can tell the child which fish to catch. In this version of the game, the child will need to remember what the letter you named looks like, and after the kid catches the corresponding fish, he will only repeat the name of the letter written on the fish.
Letters on the back
Purpose: memorize letters, develop attention.
Age: from 3-4 years old.
What you need: No props needed for this game.
How to play?
Play riddles with your child. Simply “write” on the back of the child with your index finger or the blunt end of a pencil the letter known to him. Ask what letter you wrote. Invite your child to write a letter on your back, and you guess. Guess the letters in turn.
In this way, it is useful to memorize letters that a child cannot learn firmly for some reason.
Option:
You write on the child's back, and at the same time he writes the same letter with chalk on a blackboard or with a felt-tip pen on paper.
Mirror letters
Purpose: memorize letters, train attention and observation.
Age: from 3-4 years old.
What you will need: cardboard, scissors, pencil/felt pen/pen.
How to play?
Prepare cards of the same size (approximately 8x12 cm) at the rate of 2 pieces for the letters the child has learned. Write 1 letter on each card. The letters must be written in the correct and mirror ("back to front") image.
Place a pair of cards with the same letter in front of the child. Please choose the correct letter. Organize an independent check of the task by the child: give him the opportunity to compare the selected letter with the letters from the "ABC" or "Primer". Be sure to ask the name of the letter.
This exercise will help you avoid spelling mistakes in the future.
Letter in the box
Purpose: memorize letters, learn to distinguish letters similar in spelling, train attention.
Age: from 4-5 years old.
What you will need: white and colored cardstock, colored pencils or markers, scissors.
How to play?
Prepare cards from colored and white cardboard of the same size, approximately 13x18 cm.
Colored cards can be used 3-5 pieces, and determine the number of white cards based on the number of letters to be memorized. On white cardstock, write large letters with felt-tip pens. In colored cardboard cards, cut out “windows” of various shapes (round, square, triangular, oval, rectangular): each card has one window. It is advisable to cut the windows not in the middle of the card, but shifting them slightly up or down.
Hide the letter card behind the windowed card. Try to do this so that the child does not see the letter ahead of time. Show the child the box with the letter. Ask him to recognize and name the letter in the window (by fragment).
Pay attention! The same letter can be guessed many times, alternating cards with windows or changing the presented fragment in the window (this is easy to do by turning the card with the window upside down).
The game will help to memorize the graphic images of letters well, not to confuse the letters in the further learning to read.
Letter-eater
Purpose: memorize graphic images of letters, learn to recognize the same elements of letters, learn to recognize different elements of letters.
Age: from 3-4 years old.
What you will need: paper (album, notebook, notebook, sheets), colored pencils or felt-tip pens.
How to play?
Write "corrupted" letters (unfinished, with missing details). Tell the child that these letters were spoiled by the harmful Letterhead and ask the child to restore (add/repair) them. Be sure to ask what letter you got.
You can write one of the most common letter elements (vertical line, horizontal line, slanted line, circle, semicircle) and ask the child to name all the letters that contain this element if there are several answers.
For example, the right semicircle is found in the letters 3, F, Y, C, R, E, B, L, b, the left semicircle is in the letters F and I, the oblique line is a component of the letters I, Y, Y, K, X, F, M, a horizontal line is present in the letters A, P, N, T, G, B, E, E, Yu, Sh, Shch, C, D.
Such an exercise develops visual attention, prevents erroneous naming of letters when reading and incorrect spelling of letters when typing. It is very important to prevent these mistakes, because during the whole period of preschool childhood your child will write precisely with the help of block letters. The kid will start mastering the "written" letters only in the first grade.
Options:
Try to "guess" letters that have 2 identical elements. For example, two vertical lines. Such lines are the constituent parts of the letters H, I, Y, Y, M, P, C, W, W. Any of the letters listed will be the correct answer to the riddle.
You can also play this game on the street: write letters with a stick on the sand or with chalk on the pavement. In winter, trample the letters in the snow or write in the snow with a shovel.
Learning letters by playing, games with letters, video
Portal for teachers and parents
It is obvious to everyone that children need to be prepared for school in advance, and therefore almost every first grader, going to school, already knows how to read or at least knows the letters.
Education can be safely started from the age of 5, but learning the letters of the alphabet for children of primary preschool age (2-4 years) is not at all necessary due to certain age-related characteristics of the child's psyche.
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Tips for learning letters with preschoolers
Learn letters - games for learning letters
Learn letters - video
There are many methods of teaching reading, but, as you know, the leading activity at preschool age is a game, so we study letters with preschool children in a playful way.
Tips for learning letters with preschoolers
Regardless of the method by which we learn letters by playing, it is necessary to follow certain principles of learning: Instead of the phrase "Let's go, read!" better say: "Let's go play!". Important: do not learn letters, but the sounds they represent. To familiarize children with letters and help them remember them, you should systematically conduct small lessons in the form of a game. Games for learning letters can be different: subject, role-playing, creative, mobile, didactic, computer. In addition to these, there are many other games and toys with which it is easy to learn the alphabet. So, a colorful poster-alphabet, cubes with letters, a learning tablet and other items will not be superfluous in the house. You can come up with a lot of games with letters, you just need to connect your imagination. activities unobtrusively introduces the baby to the Russian alphabet.
This means that after sitting for a long time in front of the primer, it is advisable to organize a physical education session and move around. Alternate the study of letters with drawing, modeling, designing or other activities.
For example, the letter B [be], but the sound [b]; the letter R [er], but the sound [r]. With improper learning, the child reads [peo] instead of [on].
Learning letters - games for learning letters
Most often, when teaching reading, didactic (educational) games with letters are used. Here are some examples of possible games with children to learn letters.
Laying out letters from various materials. After getting acquainted with a particular letter, children can try to lay it out using pebbles, mosaics, counting sticks and other items. When several analyzers are involved (in this case, not only visual, but also tactile), memorization occurs faster. Therefore, you need to give the child the opportunity to "play" with the letter.
Modeling a letter from plasticine with its subsequent naming.
Drawing given letters on the sand screen (draw letter C).
Inventing words for a given sound. For example, words with the letter A for children.
The child must come up with as many words as possible starting with the letter A (stork, bus, acrobat, machine gun, car). Such tasks teach to listen to words and sounds and develop phonemic hearing, which is necessary for the perception and discrimination of speech sounds. To diversify the game, you can play with the ball. An adult throws the ball to the child and calls a letter, the child comes up with a word and throws the ball back.
The game "What a letter looks like" uses the child's imagination. Children are offered to come up with an "image" for the letter. For example, the letter Zh is for a beetle, the letter D is for a house. For variety, you can add creativity to the game: make a beetle that looks like the letter Z, or draw a house that looks like the letter D. Children love this game. There are letters in the bag, the child must take one of them and, without removing his hand from the bag, determine by touch which letter he has come across.
Game “Fold the cut letter”. Such letter games for preschool children not only help to learn the alphabet, but also develop mental operations and attention. The picture should be cut into 2-4 parts.
Learn the letters - video
Learning the letter playing
9 METHOD: Learn the letter playing | How to learn letters with a child
Learning sounds and letters. Learning to read. Game 1 (A, B, C, D, E, F)
