Learning the letters
Learning Letters with Fun Activities
If your kids are learning letters, then this is the post for you! Teach the alphabet with hands-on activities that are engaging and enjoyable for young kids!
I am always creating new alphabet activities to do with my kids. From games, to activities to hands-on printables, there are so many ways to make learning letters a fun experience for your kids!
These activities are all fun, engaging and hands-on ways for kids to learn letters. And many of them require very few supplies. So let’s get started!
Learning Letters in Preschool and Kindergarten
1. Use a sand tray and these letter formation cards to help kids with letter identification, letter formation and even letter sounds.
Just use a small shallow tray and some colored sand to make a writing tray. Then pair it with the letter formation cards. The cards even include a small picture that represents the sound that each letter makes!
2. Play this Roll and Dot the Letter Game. In the two-player game version, children will roll an alphabet dice, and dot the letter on the page. The first person to dot 5 letters in a row wins! Or keep the game going and see who can get the most 5 in a rows per sheet.
3. Use these alphabet clip cards to help kids learn letter sounds while also developing fine motor skills!
4. These Beginning Sounds I Spy Mats make learning letters sounds fun and hands-on! Grab some alphabet beads and see if your kids can find all the letter sounds on the mat!
5. Print out this board game and play a fun game that teaches letter identification and letter sounds. This is one of my most popular ideas and one of my kids’ favorites!
6. These printable alphabet puzzles will make learning letters a hands-on experience. They develop critical thinking skills and fine motor skills while teaching letters and sounds!
7. Combine play dough and learning letters with these engaging alphabet mats.
Not only will kids practice letter formation while using them, but they will also practice identifying beginning sounds in words. Slip them into write and wipe pockets and you can use dry-erase markers on them too.
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8. These Beginning Sounds Clip Wheels develop fine motor skills while teaching the children to identify beginning letter sounds. Each wheel includes 4 objects that correspond to the letter in the middle. Children will mark the correct pictures with clothespins.
9. Beginning Sounds Mazes are a fun way to learn letter sounds! These bright and colorful mazes are visually engaging and great for developing visual tracking skills which are also necessary for reading.
10. My kids really enjoy these Spot the Letter Mats.
Children will search the mat for objects that start with the letter in the middle of the mat. Slip in dry-erase sleeves and mark objects with dry-erase marker. Or laminate and mark with pom poms, craft gems or other small objects.
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Learning the Alphabet: Best Activities for the ABCs
What’s the best way for kids to learn the alphabet?PLAY. OF COURSE! As much as we might think adults need to have a big hand and push into kids learning the alphabet, that’s just not always the case: Kids learn the alphabet when they play with it.
No stressing needed in the early years.
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How do you help your child learn the alphabet?By letting them play with it.
Kids need exposure to it – the same way they have exposure to animals, dolls, cars, trucks, numbers, and blocks.
The truth is: memorizing letter names is just that, memorizing. While it may seem super fancy, memorizing letter names is no different than memorizing dinosaur names, color words, princesses, and Paw Patrol characters.
It’s memorizing the name of a symbol.
The difference is, parents have been told that memorizing the ABCs is the key to learning success. That’s just not true.
Learning in the early years shouldn’t be relegated to just memorizing. The early years is for learning to problem solve, communicate, critical think, to ask question, to take risks, to develop life long skills… and they develop all these through PLAY.
It all comes back to PLAY.
Learning the alphabet is no different than learning animals namesOur children see animals everywhere, and we encourage them to learn names and sounds as they do.
“That’s a cow. It says mooooo.”
Letters are no different. We are asking a child to memorize the name and the sound it makes.
“That’s an M. It says mmmmm.”
We don’t build up animal names. We don’t worry about animal names. We don’t buy flashcards to help memorize names and sounds faster.
But we do with letters.
We don’t need to.
Expose your child to letters as they play – as they’re interestedJust like we don’t push animals, or construction trucks, or dinosaur names on little kids if they aren’t interested… follow the same rule with letters.
But if you DO HAVE A CHILD INTERESTED IN LETTERS, play with them. Answer questions. Be casual. Be cool. It’ll happen.
Remember, kids are expected to learn the alphabet IN KINDERGARTEN (that’s what the Common Core State Standards say).
Amazing activity to help your child PLAY with the alphabetHere’s some of our greatest hits from through the years that helped my kids learn their letters bit by bit.
Nothing fancy. Just play and fun, light and breezy.
Alphabet Scoop and TransferA combination literacy + sensory + life skills activity that can’t be beat. A good set of alphabet magnets (like the ones here) are a must!
Alphabet Match-upIdentifying capital letters and their small letter counterparts is a big deal… but it’s also similar to kids recognizing several breeds of bears or that Great Danes and Poodles are both dogs.
It’s another skill that grows over time.
ABC PaintA little art + letter recognition here, and this activity uses alphabet magnets too. They’re an important toy/supply to keep on hand!
ABC Puzzle BinThe tag line is right here: all these supplies came from the Dollar Store! The Dollar Store is a GREAT place to find activity supplies.
ABC & Color SortI spy alphabet magnets again!!! This is a FUN activity for littles – because it’s a color sorting activity that uses alphabet pieces as the materials.
My son (in this photo) didn’t know his ABCs yet, but he had a ball playing with them.
Always a favorite! This is a MATCHING activity – and my daughter had a ball trying to put her letters back in alphabetical order.
ABC TubeGrab your toilet tube collection and your dot stickers. This is a great (and portable!) activity for kids.
Alphabet FindA classic here. This has been on repeat since 2016 and we play it ALL THE TIME. It’s part letters, part gross motor, and one of the greatest “sittervising” activities of my life.
Alphabet Post-It WallAn activity that focuses on “tricky letters.” This activity is for all those letters that look different in capital vs lower case form. Ss and Cc are easy letters. Ee and Gg? Tricky letters.
Alphabet MatchHello to one of my favorite activities and favorite TRICKS. Yes, that sharpie really does come off.
And everyone say hi to my alphabet magnets yet again…
I can still remember the first time we did this! Feels like yesterday so you know that makes me feel OLD. It’s a classic for a reason… and the reason I got so many dinners made with 3 under 4.
Puzzle UnwrapLook at this cutie unwrapping his puzzle pieces. What kid doesn’t love opening a present? 26 alphabet puzzle pieces is one mighty fine way to play with the ABCs.
Letter HuntFeaturing one of my favorite alphabet toys: the foam bath letters. Not just for the bath, and totally awesome to play with. We still have a set of these!
Above all else, remember: learning the letters is about exposure NOT drillingYou don’t need to drill the alphabet.
You don’t need to stress about the alphabet.
Have some alphabet toys and have some fun… and keep remember: they learned their animal names and sounds just fine.
This will happen too.
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