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10 Fun Alphabet Practice Ideas for Kindergarten

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August 26, 2020October 24, 2022

When it comes to building a solid literacy foundation, kids can never get enough practice identifying and creating letters. Practicing with pencil and paper is definitely important, but mixing it up with these fun alphabet practice activities for kindergarten reinforces the concept in an exciting way. Rotate them into your literacy centers, use them with small groups,  or practice with students one-on-one. The possibilities are endless!

Alphabet Practice Activities for Kindergarten

These alphabet practice activities for kindergarten are hands-on, engaging, and don’t require a lot of prep. They use basic supplies that you have in your classroom and can easily be adapted in case you don’t happen to have a certain material. These can be implemented from the first day of school and throughout the year to help your students master their letters and sounds. 

#1: Rainbow Letters

Kids love rainbow colors, especially when they get to write with rainbow letters. You can do this activity several different ways, making this activity one you can incorporate often while still keeping it fresh and fun. 

• Have students write their letters or trace letters with markers in rainbow colors. They can even write them in an arch like a rainbow or on a printable rainbow sheet. They can also do this activity with paints, crayons, etc. 
• Give students bingo dabbers and have them dab the outline of each letter. These alphabet bingo dabber activities are perfect for this! 
• Students can draw a letter card and then practice writing that letter, switching colors each time.

#2: Build It 

Go hands-on with this fun alphabet practice activity for kindergarten! Again, this activity can be done with a variety of different manipulatives. Students can build uppercase and lowercase letters using:

• Plastic blocks
• Math cubes (they aren’t just for math activities!)
• Pattern blocks
• Mini erasers
• Play dough

#3: Alphabet Books

Making alphabet books with your students is a fun way to practice letter recognition, letter sound recognition, writing letters, and fine motor practice with coloring in the lines. They will love getting to complete the whole alphabet and learning their letters from A-Z.

Mini alphabet books also serve as a great form of assessment! They can also take these books home to read to their families and share what they are learning in school.

#4: ABC Art

Alphabet practice is always fun when art supplies are involved! Your students can practice letter formation by drawing a letter card and building the letter using a variety of different art supplies and materials, such as:

• Pom poms
• Marbles
• Pipe cleaners
• Popsicle sticks
• Yarn
• Stickers

#5: Boom Cards

This new digital learning trend is so much fun! Using Boom card alphabet practice activities for kindergarten is a sure way to bring the fun and make learning the alphabet interactive. Boom cards are digital task cards that allow your students to work on their letter and letter sound identification skills. They are self-checking, which makes it easier on you and gives them immediate feedback!

You can easily assign these to students via e-mail or on platforms such as Google Classroom and SeeSaw.

One of the best features about Boom cards is the audio that’s included. For example, these Alphabet Boom Cards read the letter or letter sound aloud to students, so they know exactly what they are looking for!

#6: Letter Tracing

Whenever you can incorporate fine motor skills into learning the alphabet, that is a win! Letter tracing activities are the perfect way to use different sensory materials and work on fine motor skills as students practice forming the letters. Sensory play allows students to explore, use their creativity and 5 senses, and helps them developmentally.

For more sensory play benefits, tips and a free alphabet sensory activity, check out this blog post.   When choosing materials, keep in mind any allergies or hazards that may occur with your students. Different materials that you can use are:

• Sand
• Rice
• Dry noodles
• Shaving cream
• Gel bags

#7: Magnetic ABCs

One of the most popular alphabet manipulatives are magnetic letters. You can do so much with these and use them for a variety of alphabet practice activities. You can use them on a magnetic board, whiteboard, or on their own. Some ideas are:

• Sorting letters by shape attributes
• Putting letters in ABC order
• Sorting uppercase and lowercase letters
• Matching uppercase and lowercase letters
• Saying a letter sound and having students find the letter that makes the sound
• Alphabet Soup. Call out a letter and have students find it in a bowl of magnetic letters and scoop it out using a spoon.  

#8: Letter Mats

Letter mats are so much fun for kids, especially when they get to use mini erasers or play dough! These letter mats help students with fine motor skills as they form and build the letter. They learn more about letter attributes, letter sounds, and matching the uppercase and lowercase letters.

You can also use “build a letter” mats with mini erasers or play dough and then have students practice writing the letters on the lines. 

#9: Highlighter Letters

A highlighter is a simple tool, but kids LOVE them! You can buy a few inexpensive word search books from the dollar section of your favorite store and assign students a letter to find. For example, say the letter ‘b’ and have them find and highlight as many b’s as they can. You can also use your favorite alphabet tracing pages and have them trace the letters with highlighter. 

#10: Magazine Letter Hunt 

Another fun activity to help your students learn their letters is to take them on a magazine letter hunt! In this activity, your students will browse through magazines like detectives, looking for letters to match up on their magazine recording sheet! Make sure to preview the magazines first to make sure they are kindergarten-friendly and remove any pages that aren’t.

This activity exposes them to different forms of text and also allows them to work on their cutting and pasting skills. To grab the free magazine recording sheet, click here!

Your students will love these activities, especially at the beginning of the year when they’re working on those basic alphabet skills. Most of the activities can be adapted to practice sight words as well. Keep it fresh, keep it fun and give students lots of opportunities to feel successful!

Need some more letter and letter sound recognition ideas? Check out this blog post!

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Alphabet activities make learning your ABCs more fun. There are so many ways to practice your ABCs, you might be able to do one alphabet activity a day for a year without repeating. We’ve gathered over 25 super fun alphabet activities so kids can play and learn every day.

1. Write letters on dried beans

Large dried white beans are inexpensive to purchase and easy to write on. Grab a sharpie and write all the upper and lower case letters on them. Then put each set in a pile (or baggie) and ask your kids to match them.

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2. Letter sort with sticky notes

Write individual letters on sticky notes and then place them all over your house or just on every stair in a staircase. This practice game has a lot of variations—all tied to sorting. Ask kids to sort by:

• lowercase
• uppercase
• letters in their name
• straight lines (H)
• curved lines (c)
• both curved and straight lines (B)
• consonants
• vowels

For even more practice: have them sort their finds into ABC order, match lowercase letters to uppercase letters, and then, find a way to sort them that’s new.

3. Write letters in shaving cream

Squirt shaving cream on a table and let your kids write letters in the cream. Smoothe it out to erase and start again. Bonus: their hands and your table will be cleaner than ever!

Source: Rose and Rex

4. Bend letters with pipe cleaners

Pipe cleaners have always been a trusted source of good fine motor practice as well as a fun craft resource. Now use them to have kids create uppercase and lower case letters.

Learn more: make and takes

5. Make sensory ABC bags

This one is great because you can change up what you put in here and even move to sight words. You’ll need a gallon bag with a ziplock top. Add letters written on pieces of paper, magnetic letters, scrabble tiles, or anything else you can think of with letters. Then fill the bag with rice or oatmeal and seal it. Kids dig through the rice through the bag to find the letters. When they find them, they write down the letter they find until they locate all 26 letters of the alphabet.

For more sensory ideas: Little Bins Little Hands

6.

This is a classic. Using a white crayon, draw letters on a piece of white paper. Give your kids watercolor, let them paint the paper, and watch the letters appear.

Learn more: Gift of Curiosity

7. Play musical alphabet

Set up letters in a big circle on the floor. You can use magnetic letters or just write them on index cards. Put music on and have your child walk around the circle to the music. When the music goes off, your child tells you the closest letter. Expand on it: ask your child to name three things (colors, animals, etc) that start with that letter.

8. Sponge the alphabet

Cut sponges into letters and use them for sponge painting letters or playing in the tub.

Learn more: Learning 4 Kids

9. Put together name puzzles

Write the upper and lower case letters in a name and then cut them apart in a simple zigzag. Mix up the letters and ask a child to match them up and put them in the right order.

10. Make letters from nature

Find the alphabet right outside. Choose natural objects that already look like letters, or arrange them to look like them.

To learn more: Right Brained Mom

11. Eat your ABCs

We know from Alphabet Soup that eating your ABCs is plain old fun. So think of all the ways you can practice the alphabet at mealtime. Pancakes can be made into letters, jello can be cut into letters, and noodles can be used to make letters (just to name a few).

Learn more: Parent Map

12. Go on an alphabet scavenger hunt

The fun part about this for grown-ups is that there is no prep. Tell kids to go find objects that start with each letter of the alphabet. To make this game take longer, designate spots for them to bring each item back—one at a time. Every item must be approved before they can move on to the next. This allows for fewer meltdowns at the end when an item is deemed inaccurate.

13.

Personalizing the ABCs helps kids process and retain their learning. One of our favorite alphabet activities starts by creating a book out of 26 pieces of paper and staples or hole punches and a ribbon. Have kids write an uppercase and lowercase letter on each page. Finally, have them draw or cut out pictures of things that start with each letter. Voila!

Learn more: Teach Mama

14. Create ABC popup books

Use the following tutorial video to learn how to make different kinds of pop up pages. Then, create a page per week for 26 weeks for each letter. At the end, use a glue stick to glue them all together to make an ABC popup book!

15. Stamp letters in playdough

Roll out playdough and push letter stamps right into the dough. This is both tactile and great for practicing ABCs.

Learn more: I can teach my child

16. Make tactile letter cards

There’s lots of research (and experience) to support the value of using all the senses to learn. Making these tactile alphabet cards will be fun and have lasting benefits.

Learn more: All About Learning

17. Trace letters in spices

This one combines touch, smell, and sight. It gives you an opportunity to talk about what we uses spices for as well. Put the bottle in front of a child and have them write the spice name in the spice to make things a bit more challenging.

Source: Frog in a Pocket

18. Study a letter of the week

Many PreK and Kindergarten classes do a letter of the week, and for good reason. Teachers all share that instant recognition of letters and practice writing them is so important for learning to read. Doing alphabet activities for one letter each week reinforces knowledge and recollection.

For weekly activities: Preschool Mom

19. Do the yoga alphabet

Show kids this video and take the time to learn each yoga pose. Connecting the mind and the body is great for learning.

20. Sing songs about the alphabet

Everyone loves to sing the alphabet song, but did you know there are lots of other songs to sing that can help you remember the alphabet? Try out this Sesame Street favorite:

21. Draw pictures from letters

Using letters as a starting point, teach kids how to draw. If this is too difficult at first, just write a letter and then draw a picture around the letter.

Learn more: Felt Magnet

22. Highlight letters on a page

Print a page of text or grab your favorite magazine and a highlighter. Ask kids to highlight as many of one letter as they can find. This is also great for sight word recognition.

Here’s a freebie from The Inspired Apple to get you started.

23. Do-A-Dot letter tracing

These dot markers make tracing letters more fun and help kids with directionality and remembering how to write and recognize letters.

Free Dot tracing sheets: DTLK’s Educational Activities for Kids

24.

Make 2 sets of index cards with all the letters on them (52 cards in all). Shuffle the cards together and deal them so each kid holds 26 cards. Together each player takes their top card and turns it upright. The player with the letter closest to A wins the hand and takes the card. If two of the same letter are played, the players slap the card. The one on the bottom of the slip wins the hand. The game ends when one player holds all the cards.

25. Match plastic Easter egg letters

Surely you have some plastic Easter eggs hanging around your attic. Use a Sharpie or letter stickers to put an uppercase letter on one half and a lowercase letter on the other. Then separate the two and throw them all in a basket. Kids pull them out and match them up. Tip: Add difficulty by not coordinating the colors.

Learn more: Crystal and Co.

26. Create loose part letters

What are loose parts? Loose parts are exactly what they sound like—a collection of loose materials or objects. These can be small pebbles, bottle caps, random LEGO bricks, seeds, keys, anything. Draw big letters on a piece of paper and have kids line up loose parts to make the letter.

Recognizing letters is a fundamental part of learning how to read. Without it, children struggle to learn letter sounds and identify words. Beginning readers who know their alphabet have a much easier time learning to read. Making alphabet practice a part of every day in fun ways helps create a lifelong love for letters and words.

What games and activities do you like to use for practicing the alphabet?

Plus, our favorite activities using alphabet beads and the best alphabet books.

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