Letters activities for kindergarten
100+ Alphabet Activities that Kids Love
Check out this list of the best alphabet activities and printables! They are all fun, hands-on ways to teach the alphabet and letter sounds!
Learning the alphabet is sure to be an engaging and exciting experience when you utilize these alphabet resources!
Alphabet Activities for Kids
I love that there are so many ways to teach the alphabet to preschoolers and kindergarteners.
There are alphabet games, fine motor activities like play dough mats, clip cards, crafts and so many other fun, hands-on ways to kids to learn letters and sounds.
Forget the flashcards and try some of these engaging alphabet activities instead!
Alphabet Skills
This list covers a variety of alphabet learning skills such as:
- letter identification
- letter sounds
- uppercase and lowercase matching
- beginning sounds isolation
- letter formation
- and more!
We are always adding more alphabet and letter sounds printables and activities to our site, so stay tuned for even more alphabet activities that will engage your kids and make learning and teaching the alphabet fun!
We hope that this page and the alphabet activities on it will save you time planning lots of fun alphabet learning for the kids you teach.
Teaching the Alphabet
Since I have so many alphabet activities here on the website and I am always adding more, I made this page to keep all the posts together and easy to access for my readers.
I will continue to add my new alphabet resources to this page, so you can always come back and find them here.
I hope this will be a huge resource for you! Make sure you pin or bookmark this page, so you can revisit as needed and see everything new that I've added.
Don't forget to check out my alphabet Pinterest board. I pin all kinds of fantastic, hands-on ideas there. I also have tons of preschool learning activities of all kinds on my activities for preschoolers board.
Or check out these super helpful phonics page for teaching letters, sounds, and a variety of phonics skills.
List of Alphabet Activities
Get the Alphabet Activities Printable Bundle
One of our most popular alphabet resources is this alphabet activities bundle!
It is jam-packed with engaging printable alphabet activities.
These alphabet printables are perfect for your alphabet centers or literacy centers.
These alphabet printables and activities are perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. They cover letter recognition, letter sounds, uppercase and lowercase matching, beginning sounds isolation and more!
With over 300 pages of printable alphabet activities, this printable pack is sure to keep the kids engaged!
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Keep scrolling to continue finding free alphabet and letter sounds printables!
Even more awesome ways for kids to learn the alphabet.
Check out the alphabet activities category on Pinterest. There are thousands of activities! Or check out this Pinterest board with tons of engaging ways to teach the alphabet.
I just love this post with 50+ incredible activities for teaching the alphabet.
These 25 alphabet games and activities are so much fun!
Here's a big list of hands-on ways for kids to learn the alphabet. So many genius ways to teach the alphabet here!
Looking for alphabet printables? Check out this post to find some, along with a bunch of other hands-on activities.
Alphabet Printables and Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten
These alphabet printables and activities are perfect for preschool and kindergarten students. They cover letter recognition, letter sounds and more! With over 300 pages of printable alphabet activities, this printable pack is sure to keep the kids engaged!
Are you looking for alphabet printables that are both fun and effective for kids? Then you have come to the right place! I wanted to develop a fun set of hands-on printables that would be great for pre-k and kindergarten students to use to learn the alphabet. And they also had to be activities that would be simple and easy for teachers and parents to set up and use.
Alphabet Printables and Activities
These printable alphabet activities would be great to use in alphabet or literacy centers in the classroom as well as at home with parents. Save time prepping and planning fun ways to teach the alphabet. These alphabet printables and activities are going to make it so much easier on you!
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.
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.
This 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.
These Alphabet Mini Books were a labor of love for me. They were quite time-consuming to make, but my kids love making mini books! They are different from my usual printable because they are in black and white, but I love that they are interactive and my kids enjoy coloring in all of the pictures.
I have includes two whole pages for each letter. Use only the first page for younger children and then add in the second page for older or more advanced learners.
Even if you aren’t sure your kids will enjoy them, I encourage you to give them a shot. My son is a very reluctant reader and writer, but if you put something in a mini book format that he can color and put together himself, he is much more engaged and willing to participate in the activity. He loves these books!
Printable Beginning Sounds Alphabet Activities
Play a fun game of Alphabet Bingo! I included a letter version and a beginning sounds version so this is great for kids at varying levels of ability. To start, children can match lowercase to lowercase and then lowercase to uppercase and eventually move on to matching letters to beginning sounds. Mix and match all of the pieces as you see fit.
Do you kids like doing puzzles? Then they will enjoy these uppercase and lowercase letter puzzles!
These Beginning Sounds Sorting Mats are perfect for literacy centers or homeschooling! Use one mat to sort letters and corresponding sounds.
These Alphabet Play Dough Mats make learning the alphabet hands-on and fun! Trace the letters with play dough and then find the pictures that start with that sound.
Look at the pictures on the mat and match the corresponding letter bead to each picture. These Beginning Sounds I Spy Mats make learning the alphabet hands-on and engaging!
These Beginning Sounds Puzzles are perfect for kids who love to do puzzles. Forget the flash cards and give these puzzles a go instead!
Hands-On Alphabet Printables
If your kids like to color, than they will LOVE this Color by Letter activity. This is great for developing pencil control and fine motor skills too.
This Alphabet Dominoes game is a fun way to play and learn the alphabet. Or use this board game to learn the alphabet!
These classic alphabet clip cards come in two different versions. Match uppercase letters to the corresponding lowercase match or match a beginning sound picture to the corresponding letter.
These dot the letter mazes are always a hit with my kids! Use Do-a-Dot markers to mark each letter or use small objects like craft pom poms of craft gems if you would like to reuse them again and again.
One of my kids favorite activities is this Roll and Dot the Letter activity. Make alphabet dice with small foam cubes and a permanent marker. Then roll the dice and mark the letter. If you want to make this reusable you can laminate and use small objects to mark the letters. You can even make it a game… The first person to get 5 letters in a row, wins!
*Note: Several of the activities do not include “X” because there aren’t enough beginning sounds pics. I could have included pics with the “X” ending sound such as “ax” and “box,” but I decided that this would be too confusing for young children when all of the other pictures have the letter sound at the beginning.
Get the Alphabet Printable Pack
My hope is that these alphabet printables and activities will lead to lots of fun and learning for your kids!
If you buy this pack, you will have a bunch of pre-planned alphabet activities and games for your kids or students to enjoy! This will require little prep from you. Just print, cut and laminate (if you would like).
I even made many of the printables in a way that would limit the amount of cuts you need to make. All in an effort to make this as quick and easy as possible for you!
I hope you and your kids enjoy it!
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Compilation of a letter to children from a neighboring kindergarten
Synopsis of organized educational activities
“Compilation of a letter to children from a neighboring kindergarten”
for children of the preparatory group
Tasks:
1. Exercise children in the ability to compose a story from memory about their kindergarten, creating an image of a preschool educational institution.
2. Develop logical thinking, imagination, creativity.
3. Cultivate a sense of pride in your kindergarten, a desire to listen to the children's answers to the end.
Preliminary work: conversations with children, teacher's stories, reading fiction and literature, excursions in the garden, looking at photographs from the kindergarten.
Materials: a set of photographs of the garden, landscape sheets, pencils, brushes for drawing, gouache, text of the poem "My favorite kindergarten".
Progress of organized educational activities:
Educator: Guys, would you like to visit the neighboring kindergarten and meet the guys? Would you like one of them to be in our kindergarten? Then we should invite them to visit. But I don't know how to do it. Help me please.
Children offer ways to invite guests.
Educator: Let's write a letter. In it, we will be able to tell about all the beauty of our kindergarten: about the toys and books that are in it, about what you like to do and how you play together. And then the children from the neighboring kindergarten will definitely want to come to our amazing kindergarten. Let's think together about what we will write in our letter.
The children together with the teacher decide to talk about the art studio, Dymkovo toys, the gym, the People's Hut museum.
Educator: Guys, you know our kindergarten and teachers well. I propose to write about them all in our letter. Let's start with the history of our garden and greetings to fabulous friends:
“Hello, dear children! Children from the neighboring kindergarten "Petrushka" are writing to you. We really want you to come visit us. In this letter we will talk about our favorite kindergarten. "Petrushka" is already about 40 years old. It brings up 150 people.
Educator: Guys, who will help me continue the letter?
Okay, dictate to me, please.
Sample story of a child:
“Dear guys. Our kindergarten has the best teachers, many interesting books and games. The most interesting is the Museum "People's Hut", which contains old household items. The kindergarten site is decorated with flowers and beautiful buildings.
Educator: Well done! The children from the neighboring garden will love your story. Let's talk about the gym now. Who will tell us about it?
Sample child's story:
“Another favorite place of ours is the gym. It contains soft modules, balls, hoops, exercise equipment. In the gym there are classes that help us become strong and healthy.”
Educator: Very good. Please tell us about the games you like to play, and I will continue to write a letter.
Sample child's story:
“In our garden there are board games such as hockey and football. We love to play with them. We also love to play volleyball.
Teacher: We listened to a story about our favorite kindergarten. And now Arina will read a poem, which is called “Our beloved kindergarten!”. Listen to him please.
Arina:
I wake up together with the sun,
I am glad to come in the morning.
Quickly, quickly going to
I'm going to my favorite kindergarten!
Books and toys there,
My beloved friends there,
My faithful girlfriends,
I can't live without them!
The dearest teacher,
Helps us and teaches.
She is almost like a mother to me.
And our kindergarten is the best!
(I. Gurina)
Educator: Very good poem, Arina, thank you!
You also offered to write about our art studio. Who will tell about it?
Sample story of a child:
“The art studio is located on the second floor. Elena Georgievna teaches us folk craft. Recently we got acquainted with Dymkovo toys. Clay toys have been made for a very long time. All of them are very beautiful. Masters make their toys with great love. Dymkovo toys are known all over the world.”
Educator: Well done! Very good. Children from the neighboring garden will now definitely want to come to visit us. Guys, if one of the children cannot come to us, then I propose to draw our kindergarten, your favorite toys, and send the drawings with a letter. Look, I have prepared landscape sheets, pencils, gouache, brushes. Choose your favorite colors and draw. But do not forget about the rules when drawing.
Get to work.
Educator: Well done guys! The work turned out just amazing. I think the kids will really like them. What words will we end our letter with?
Children offer answers, the teacher writes down.
“Dear children, we think you liked the story about our kindergarten and would like to come to us. We will be very happy to meet you."
Educator: On this, guys, we will end our letter. In it, we talked about the most interesting things in our garden. Children will definitely want to come to visit us. And we look forward to hearing from them. In the envelope we will definitely put the drawings of the kindergarten and our favorite toys.
In their free time, the children with the teacher re-read the letter, seal it in a large envelope, write the address on it. And on a walk, they pass an envelope to children from a neighboring garden.
Letter of thanks to a kindergarten teacher from parents
Samples of beautiful, sincere texts for a letter of thanks addressed to a kindergarten teacher from parents. All names, surnames, names of organizations are used only for convenience of presentation, do not forget to change them (if you are going to use a sample). Recommendations for writing a letter can be found at the end of the page.
Express your gratitude in your own words (orally) with a special selection of texts.
Variant №1
Dear Appolinaria Agafonovna!
With special warmth and cordiality, we express our sincere gratitude and respect for your pedagogical talent, for your care, affection and love for our children!
Special thanks to you for the individual approach, attentiveness and careful attitude to each child. Every day we observe the results of your noble work, and we never tire of admiring how professionally you are able to determine the abilities of each child and develop them. A low bow to you for this and a huge parental gratitude.
Parents of pupils of the "Solnyshki" group
May 2023
Option No. 2
We, the team of parents of pupils of the "Gnomiki" group of preschool educational institution No. 19, express our deep gratitude to our teacher Sidorenkova Anfisa Ibragimovna!
We would like to note the high professionalism, pedagogical skills, sensitivity to children, care and responsibility.
We express our admiration for the excellently organized educational process, which takes into account all the needs and requirements of children. Also, the organization of the environment causes admiration and respect, in which there are a lot of opportunities for developing communication skills, creative, physical, musical and mathematical abilities. Our children willingly and joyfully go to the garden every day, looking forward to meeting with the teacher, with whom it is interesting and easy to explore the world. It remains for us, parents, only with a light heart to transfer children into the sensitive hands of such a teacher, knowing that he is under reliable care.
Thank you very much and low bow.
June 2023
Option No. 3
Dear Kamilla Filimonovna!
Please accept our deep, sincere gratitude for teaching our children to be friends and respect each other, to fantasize and create, to appreciate the beauty of the world, to be caring, kind and honest. Our children are proud of their successes, achievements and discoveries.
Every day we observe how, under your sensitive guidance, children learn their individual abilities. In the group, we observe order and cleanliness, coziness and comfort - a perfectly organized space for development.
Thank you very much for the fact that you can safely leave your child for the whole day and go about your work without worry. We appreciate it and understand how important your contribution to our peace is.
We also thank the management of preschool educational institution No. 28 for a perfectly matched team of professionals. Happiness and prosperity to you.
The team of parents of pupils
Preschool educational institution No. 28 from the "Beads" group
Option No. 4
From the bottom of our hearts we express our heartfelt gratitude to the team of educators of the "Bunnies" group of kindergarten No. 37 for the excellent, effective and fruitful work in education, training and development of our children.
You have become the best helpers and an integral part of a happy childhood, and you have made the kindergarten a native and beloved place.
We wish all the teaching staff and administration good health, patience, new successes and pleasure from the results of their work.
Sincerely, parents.
July 2023
Option No. 5
Teacher of Preschool Educational Institution No. 46 Tamara Albertovna Mikhailova!
Please accept our deep gratitude for your painstaking, hard and important work. For the part of your soul invested in our children. For your worries and experiences, sympathy and attention. For your always wonderful mood in the morning when you meet our children on the doorstep. We sincerely wish you happiness, prosperity, obedient children, and may all your kindness return to you multiplied many times over.
Parents of pupils of the group
"Umki", 2023 release
Option No. 6
Dear Lilia Markovna!
The team of parents of graduates of kindergarten No. 73 of the "Elves" group sincerely thanks you for the fact that being in the kindergarten under your sensitive mentoring made their childhood look like a fairy tale and this fairy tale will remain with them forever. For all these years revealing beauty to them and helping them find true friends. Thank you for your kindness and kindness.
Also, we express our deep gratitude to the whole team of good fairies from the "Elves" group. We, parents and children, will always remember you with warmth in our hearts and gratitude to fate for giving us a luxurious gift in the person of such a professional teaching team that helps us raise children.
We wish you to meet only kindness, love, understanding and joy on your way.
Sincerely, parents
graduates of preschool educational institutions in 2023
Option No. 7
Our group's nanny Filippova Zinaida Sidorovna!
Thank you, our dear nanny, for being so warm and comfortable with you. For the kindness with which you surround children. For always helping with a smile, kindness and care. For your spiritual generosity and affection, which you, without regret, give to our children - a special thank you. For the fact that it is always easy and calm with you - our special gratitude.
Be always happy, loved and healthy. Let all your dreams come true, and let the children come across only obedient and affectionate.
With love and respect,
the team of parents of pupils of the "Buttons" group
Option No. 8
We express our parental gratitude to the team of teachers of the "Bantiki" group of preschool educational institution No. 55 for their help in raising our children: Petrova F.Kh., Ivanova Z. Zh., Sidorova Ya.Ch., Kharitonova P.E., Murzilkina U.Ts. In the life of ours and our children, you have become wise mentors and good friends. You taught our children to write, read, draw, think, make friends and communicate fruitfully.
Thank you very much for your patience, sensitivity, responsibility, hard work and individual approach to each child. For allowing each kid to develop at his own pace, in accordance with his abilities and in harmony with the environment - a separate gratitude to you. Professionalism and careful, detailed study of the educational program made the classes understandable and interesting, and the stay in the group - comfortable and joyful.
We wish you success and resounding victories both in your responsible, difficult work and outside it, as well as happiness, health, well-being and peace in your soul.
Variant №9
Dear Alena Timurovna!
We consider your participation in the development of our son one of the greatest successes in life and a happy gift of fate. We are very glad that you were the teacher of Zakhar Spiridonov.
It is very important that from the first years of life our children met with a respectful, wise and benevolent attitude towards themselves. We, as parents, highly appreciate and always notice your warmth, sensitive attitude towards children and feedback from us, parents.
Many thanks and deep bow to you Alena Timurovna for your cordiality, kindness, contact, humanity and a huge heart. Thank you for everything you do for our children. You are the best!
Sincerely,
parents of the pupil Zakhar Spiridonov
October, 2023
Option No.
The team of parents and children of the preschool group "Preschoolers" expresses sincere gratitude to the teachers of kindergarten No. 82 "Smart kid" determination responsible attitude to their work and pedagogical talent.
Today we say goodbye to you and sincerely thank, appreciate and remember everyone who helped raise and develop our children all these wonderful years: educators, nannies, cooks, doctors, technical and administrative staff.
We wish you happiness, good health, prosperity and success.
Sincerely,
issue of 2023: Smirnov Timofey, Kashirin Maxim, Goncharova Victoria, Zakharov Saveliy, Moiseev Timur, Pchelin Mark, Tsypkina Valeria
Option No. 11
With warmth in our souls and gratitude in our hearts, we bring sincere words of gratitude and respect to the teacher-teacher of the "Berry" group of the preschool institution "Svet"
Raisa Pamfilovna Razumovskaya.
Such interested and enthusiastic, competent and experienced specialists can be wished for by every kindergarten, and this is exactly what every parent dreams of. We wish the administration to protect, respect and appreciate such personnel, it is these people who make the preschool institution what it should be.
Option №12
Dear Valeria Valentinovna!
Please accept sincere words of gratitude and respect from the entire parent team for your competent approach to work, professionalism and wisdom. You know how to captivate children, engage in useful activities and teach the necessary skills. Each of the guys is provided with attention, affection and support. An atmosphere of mutual assistance, friendship and joy reigns in the children's team. You are able to fairly, wisely and skillfully resolve any conflict. Children come home with a lot of positive emotions and are happy to return to the group every day. With passion and interest, they discover the world and themselves, easily and freely share their impressions of the past day.
We wish you boundless happiness, joy, satisfaction with the results of your work and may your path be easy and the sky above your head cloudless.
Sincerely, parents of pupils of the "Leaves" group
September 2023
Option No. 13
We express our heartfelt gratitude for your invaluable contribution to the development, upbringing and wisely organized educational process in the "Angelochki" group of kindergarten No. 73.
Thank you for your professional skills, sympathetic heart and spiritual generosity.
We sincerely wish you well-being, peace to your home, light to your soul and ease in your life path. And also - strong and unshakable health to you and all your loved ones.
Option No. 14
Dear and respected employees of our second home - kindergarten No. 10: educators, nannies and cooks, doctors, technical and managerial staff!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for:
- Your hospitality, understanding and help in creating a solid foundation for the subsequent personal development of our children;
- For a constant, tireless and significant contribution to the development of the young generation - our change, support and hope;
- For the excellent feedback that we, parents, received whenever we needed it and never knew it was denied;
- For holding on when it's hard and when you're sick, when you're tired and when you're tired of everything.
.. it's not easy and we are grateful to you for your selflessness, a wonderful example for all of us;
- For giving us every day the opportunity to meet your friendly faces at the doors of the garden and constantly enjoy the generosity of your kind hearts, humanity and the light of your souls;
- For tirelessly instilling useful skills in young explorers, discoverers and just immensely curious, restless creatures;
- For preparing and implementing touching holidays for us and our children over the years;
- For vigilant supervision of snotty noses, wet legs, frozen ears and skinned knees;
And most importantly, we thank you for diligently, day after day, you protect the most sacred thing in the life of every person - his childhood. And for helping this childhood to become a warm, fabulous and bright time in life, illuminating it with smiles and care, becoming the closest adults after your parents, keeping many children's secrets and remaining a warm corner in our hearts forever.
Option №15
Dear and respected Ruslana Nikitichna!
Please accept our sincere gratitude for your active, skillful and productive participation in the upbringing of our daughter Appolinaria Timofeeva.
Thank you for helping us make the developmental process exciting, active and fruitful, thanks to which the child is ready for school, has acquired impressive social skills. For constantly listening to our wishes and tactfully helping to make reasonable decisions that are useful for our family. For the fact that not once during the entire period of our cooperation you did not show irritation and did not refuse good advice and support. Because you are a wonderful, efficient, smartest and most experienced specialist. And also for the huge work that is behind this experience.
We envy ourselves that we met such a talented mentor as you.
Thank you for choosing this particular field of activity to realize your great talent and outstanding abilities.
