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50 ABC Letters and Sounds Games • Kids Activities Blog

Today we have a whole bunch of alphabet fun with letter and sounds learning games and activities for toddlers and preschoolers to help you young students prepare to read with fun pre-reading playful learning ideas.

ABC Games & Alphabet Sounds

Many parents have kids that are soon to enter kindergarten for the first time and are wondering what their kids should know before they head out to school on their own.

As a mom who once taught Kindergarten, I always wanted to make sure my kids are well-prepared and ready to begin their school career with a bit of an advantage by knowing their letters and sounds.

Related: Grab our free Kindergarten readiness checklist as a guide

I have seen the value in children knowing their letters early.

That said, I also recognize that kids are kids, and I want to make sure they have time to play – both independently and with me.

Let’s learn our alphabet through playing games!

Learning Through Alphabet Games

Children acquire knowledge through play, so learning letters at our house is rarely a sit down structured time.

It’s a time of play and games!

The kids have fun and don’t even realize they are learning at the same time. I don’t believe we should leave teaching up to the schools. You get the great honor of being an educator of your child, and you can supplement what is happening at school by engaging your child in enjoyable yet educational ways.

Related: Check out our huge abc letters resource that has letter activities, letter crafts, letter printables and more for every letter of the alphabet!

I hope these resources help you feel equipped to take the reins in your own child’s education.  

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Let’s play a hands on letter game!

Hands On Letter Games

1. Letter Toss Game

Muffin Tin Learning  – Want to make learning fun? This game involving throwing pennies and will keep your kids engaged. They will  barely know that this is actually a lesson.

2. Growing Letters Game

Alphabet Flower Garden –  This garden is full of letters and learning opportunities. It is definitely a great way to explore and grow in alphabet knowledge.

3. Unlimited ABC Games for Kids

ABC Mouse – This site gives kids tons of alphabet and phonics practice through interactive games and printables.

4. Matching Letter Game

Magnetic Alphabet Board – This letter matching activity is self-contained and is a tool to get  kids to match up letters and help with identification.

5. Touch and Feel the Alphabet Game

Play Dough and Magnet Letters – Letting kids explore using their senses is a great way to learn. Play Dough is a tactile  way to watch this happen.

–>Need a Set of Alphabet Magnets? I like this Magnetic Letters Alphabet Fridge Magnets Set that comes in a handy carrying tub.

6. The Great Alphabet Race

Race the Alphabet – Do you have race tracks and a child that loves playing with cars? This activity is for you! If you don’t have your own track, here’s another version.

Let’s have some fun with preschool learning games & our ABC’s.

Preschool Alphabet Games

7. Fishing for Letters

Magnet Letter Fishing  – Take your magnet letters and make a simple fishing pole. With a pond full of letters, your kids will have a lot of fun  casting their line for another catch.

8. Pirate Vowel Game

Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop – Your little pirate will have fun learning his or her vowels be playing this game.

9. Letter Stacking Game

ABC Letter Stack Game – Stacking up letters has never been so fun. They get to stack and stack until they fall, which I am sure will become the favorite part.

Related: Use these with our playful preschool homeschool curriculum

10. It Begins With…

Initial Sounds Blackout Game  – Want kids to be able to identify the beginning sounds of words? This fun game will help them do exactly that.

–>Need a Wooden Alphabet Set with Flashcards? I really love the cuteness of this Tangame Wooden Magnetic Letters Alphabet Refrigerator Magnet Flash Cards for Preschool Kids that comes in a magnetic tin.

11. Letter Scavenger Hunt

Architecture Letter Scavenger Hunt – Have you seen those photos that find letters in architecture? Your kids get to go on their own letter scavenger hunt with this fun activity.

Let’s play a creative alphabet game!

Creative Letter Games for Alphabet Sounds

12. Interactive Alphabet Learning Games

A-Z Letter Learning Activities – This post brings you over 90 activities for each and every letter of the alphabet. What a great resource!

13. Climb the Word Ladder

Word Ladder – Kids get to “climb” to the top of the ladder as they successfully identify letters and sounds. They don’t need to worry if they “fall,” they have the opportunity to try again.

14. Flashlight Alphabet Game

Flashlight Alphabet Game – My kids are obsessed with flashlights. I know my preschooler would love this game!

–>Need Foam Alphabet Letters for Practice? This Gamenote Classroom Magnetic Alphabet Letters Kit comes in a plastic organization case and magnet board and would be great for home too.

15. Make a Letter Game

Letter Formation Activity – Using materials you probably have at home, your kids will have a lot of fun forming their letters.

16. Hungry Hungry Letters Game

Alphabet Monster  – This hungry monster will only eat letters if you can say the name or sound of a letter. What a fun craft to make that also turns a great letter learning opportunity.

Let’s play a game that helps us learn letters!

ABC Games that Help Kids Learn Letters and Sounds

17. Let’s Host a Reading Hop

Reading Hop  – This letter learning game will keep your kids active and hopping all around. If you are looking for a way to take learning outdoors, you have found it.

18. Alphabet I Spy

Alphabet “I Spy” – Take the classic and beloved game of “I Spy” and turn it into an alphabet search activity. Brilliant!

19. Can You Catch the Letters Game?

Runaway Letters Game  – Your child gets a chance to grab letters and runaway while you creativity beacon the letter’s return. This is a great way for moms, dads or teachers to interact with their kids during the educational process.

–>Need a Fun ABC Game? I love this ABC Cookies Game from Goodie Games that is a fun alphabet learning game for toddlers and preschoolers.

20. LEGO Spelling

Lego Spelling  – If you add letters to duplex legos, you have a great way to work on sounds and words.

21. Letters Inside of Letters Activity

Making Letters with Letters – Learning letters will be reinforced over and over again as your kids use letters from magazines to create their own larger letters.

Fun Pre-K Learning games for kids!

ABC Games for Pre-K

22. Letter Swat Game

Spider Letter Swat – Kids will enjoy learning their letters as they swat away at the flies in this entertaining game.

23. Letter Squirt Game

Squirt the Letter  – This is a game I know my son, especially, would love. He loves anything squirt gun and anything water. Squirting the correct letter is right up his alley.

24. Letter Lacing Activity

Letter Lacing – This letter lacing, quiet bag activity works on fine motor skills while also developing the skills needed to develop in reading.

–>Need Letter Lacing Cards? I like this wooden set from Melissa & Doug that has both animals and letters on the sturdy lacing cards.

25. Alphabet Sounds Race

Letter Sounds Race – Get your kids moving with this letter sounds race. This is a great learning opportunity for your active kids! More alphabet sound learning activities are fun too!

26. Disappearing Letters Game

Disappearing Letters  – Kids will learn to love to trace their letters as they see  the trick to making them disappear.

Let’s play ABC Learning Games!

Alphabet Games for Learning

27. The Game of Bang

Bang – Bang is a letter identification game that will be a lot of fun for the little gamers in your life.

28. Letter Chomp Game

Mr. Shark Alphabet Chomper Game  – I love the idea to make a shark out of an envelope in general. Add the learning aspect of having the shark chomp letters, and you have a great game.

29. Letter Tiles Activity

DIY Bananagrams Letter Tiles – Here’s a really smart way to make letter tiles. You can turn them into magnets or play the classic Bananagram game with your creation.

–>Need a Bananagram Game? Here is the original Bananagram game for kids.

30. Make Pretzel Letters

Soft Pretzel Letters – Kids can learn their letters as they have fun making pretzel dough. Through using both the sense of touch and taste, this becomes a fun activity for all.

31. Travel Alphabet Game

Alphabet Words Game – This is a learning game that can be taken anywhere. Keep your kids occupied working on their letters at restaurants, home, car rides and more.

Let’s play letter and sound games!

ABC Games for Letters and Sounds

32.

Touchy Feely Letters

Sensory Bins with Letters – Sometimes the best way to help kids learn is to let them explore. This sensory bin will help kids do just that.

33. Alphabet Seek & Find

Seek-N-Find Alphabet – This letter game is like an eye spy for letters. It involves a plastic tube (easily substituted by a water bottle), and will keep your kids searching for their letters for quite some time.

34. Letter Formation Fun

Tactile Writing – Kids learn to write letters as they use rice and paint  to feel their way through the process or writing.

–>Need a Wooden Letter Matching Set? I like this durable Alphabet flash cards and wooden letter puzzle set from LiKee Alphabet.

35. Homemade Domino Letter Fun

Craft Stick Dominos  – These craft stick dominos are an easy, homemade version of a domino game with a  focus on learning letters and matching symbols. What a fun idea.

36. Flashcard Games

ABC Flashcards  – Flashcards can be used by a variety of games and activities like flashcard basketball. These ones are free. And so are these kids alphabet cards you can download & print instantly.

Related: Here are a bunch of ideas for flash card games for kids

Let’s play some more abc games!

How to Help a Child Learn Letters and Sounds Through Play

37. Make a Sun-Powered Letter Puzzle

Make a DIY shape puzzle using the sun with alphabet letters for a really fun matching game you can play inside or out. Or use this method without the sun to make this fun abc matching game for kids.

38. Collect Alphabet Treasures

Use these free alphabet labels to create small containers for each letter of the alphabet for a special letter collection activity!

39. Make Easy Alphabet Crackers

Making alphabet crackers has never been easier or more fun!

–>Need an Alphabet Snack? I like these Happy Tot Organics ABC Multi-Grain Cookies…yum!

40. Play Alphabet Zipline!

Use these alphabet printable letters to create your own alphabet zipline in your living room. It is really fun.

41. Play a Silly Letters Game

Try these alphabet games for preschool that are full of fun and a little silly…

42. Make Pipecleaner Letters!

Try to do some fun abc formation with pasta and pipe cleaners which is a fun way to explore letter shapes.

43. Make Bathtub Alphabet Soup

Use bath letters for a big big big batch of bubblebath alphabet soup {giggle}.

44. Color a Letter Coloring Page

  • Letter A Coloring Page
  • Letter B Coloring Page
  • Letter C Coloring Page
  • Letter D Coloring Page
  • Letter E Coloring Page
  • Letter F Coloring Page
  • Letter G Coloring Page
  • Letter H Coloring Page
  • Letter I Coloring Page
  • Letter J Coloring Page
  • Letter K Coloring Page
  • Letter L Coloring Page
  • Letter M Coloring Page
  • Letter N Coloring Page
  • Letter O Coloring Page
  • Letter P Coloring Page
  • Letter Q Coloring Page
  • Letter R Coloring Page
  • Letter S Coloring Page
  • Letter T Coloring Page
  • Letter U Coloring Page
  • Letter V Coloring Page
  • Letter W Coloring Page
  • Letter X Coloring Page
  • Letter Y Coloring Page
  • Letter Z Coloring Page

45.

Let’s Play with Playdough!

These playdough pre writing activities are both fun and super hands-on learning.

Let’s make a yummy…I mean gummy…alphabet!

46. Make Gummy Letters

This sour gummy recipe makes the cutest alphabet letters to learn and eat!

47. Try a Fun Alphabet Activity Book

There are so many quality workbooks for kids on the market right now so we narrowed it down to some of our favorites that just might fit your kid.

Let’s find the letters and make pictures with crayons!

48. Color by Letter Activities for Letter Recognition Fun

We have a whole bunch of color by letter printable pages for kids that help them recognize letters while playing a game:

  1. Color by letter – A-E
  2. Color by letter worksheets – F-J
  3. Coloring by letters – K-O
  4. Color with letters – P-T
  5. Preschool color by letter – U-Z

49. Play the Missing Letter Game

Use one of our favorite preschool games, What is Missing? and use either letter flashcards or abc fridge magnet sets to create sequencing of the alphabet and then remove a letter or two.

Let’s have fun with letter recognition!

50. Play Alphabet Beach Ball Toss

Modify our fun sight word game with letters instead of sight words. Your beach ball can be covered with the letters of the alphabet for throwing and catching learning fun.

Games for ABC Sounds

51. Learn and sing the ABC sounds song

I love this fun song from Rock ‘N Learn that goes through the entire alphabet with sounds for each of the letters.

52. Play an online ABC sounds game

Monster Mansion is a free online alphabet match game that kids can learn the abc sounds and match them with the proper letter on the proper monster!

53. Print & Play a letter sounds game

Preschool Play and Learn has a really colorful and fun letter sounds board game you can print and play at home or in the preschool classroom. Each player will pick up a card and identify the letter and /or say the sound that the letter makes.

More Learning Games from Kids Activities Blog

  • Now that we learned out letters, don’t miss out on our number activities for preschoolers!
  • When your child is ready, we have a big giant list of sight word activities that are fun too!
  • We have some really fun games teaching kids how to read a clock.
  • My favorite massive resource of fun is our kids science games here at Kids Activities Blog.
  • It doesn’t have to be October to play some frightful Halloween games.
  • Let’s play math games for kids!
  • If you need to work out the wiggles, we have the best indoor games for kids.

What was your favorite abc game? Did we miss some alphabet activities that you do with your kids?

Letter Recognition Games

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Are you teaching letter recognition to your preschoolers and kindergarteners? Make it fun with these Letter Recognition Games!

These board and card games are an entertaining way for your kids to practice identifying letters by their names and shapes, matching capital and lowercase letters, and much more! 

Not only will these alphabet games help your children learn and review the letters of the alphabet and other reading skills.

But, they will also work on developing their fine motor skills as they spin the spinner, roll the dice, pick up cards, and move their piece around the board.

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Why Are Play Games Important For Kids?

While playing these games, your preschoolers and kindergarteners will practice the letter recognition concepts that you are teaching them.

Working on these concepts will help your kids become confident with their letter knowledge and other pre-reading skills.

Through play, your young learners will also work on many different development skills that will help them as they learn to read and write.

Playing games is also a great way for your children to learn skills such as cooperation, taking turns, problem-solving, strategic thinking, and much more! 

How Can These Alphabet Games Be Used?

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If you are a preschool or kindergarten teacher, you can add these alphabet games to your morning tubs or literacy centers.

First, teach your students how to play the game during whole-class instruction or in small groups.

Depending on the games, your kids can then play them independently or with a partner.

If you are a homeschooler or a gameschooler, you can add these games to your lesson plans as a way to teach your children the letters of the alphabet.

You can pair many of them with books including The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle or H Is for Hook: A Fishing Alphabet by Judy Young.

These Letter Recognition Games are a fun way for your preschoolers and kindergarteners to learn and review the letters of the alphabet and much more!

More Letter Recognition Games:

If you are looking for more letter recognition activities for your kids, try these engaging and entertaining games!

Fly Swatter Alphabet Game

10 Fun Games with ABC Pretzels from Books and Giggles

Apple Alphabet Game

Dump Truck Alphabet Game from Homeschool Preschool

ABC Bingo Game

You May Also Like This Letter Recognition Activity:

These Find The Letter: Alphabet Recognition Worksheets are a fun, hands-on way for children to practice recognizing lowercase and capital letters.

These spot and dot printables will also help your children work on visual discrimination and fine motor skills too. Click on the link or picture to learn more!

What is your favorite letter recognition game to play with your preschoolers and kindergarteners?

ALPHABET LETTERS GAMES - alphabet games

Knowing the letters of the alphabet will allow your child to quickly and easily learn to read. The ability to recognize letters in a word plays a major role in learning to read. Alphabetical songs, tasks for matching objects and letters with which their names begin, as well as all kinds of games with letters and sounds will help the child realize that the letters of the alphabet represent speech sounds, and learn to read more quickly.

UNUSUAL LETTERS

SUPPORTS CREATIVITY

1. Cut out large capital letters from heavy card stock.

2. Have the children pick up objects whose names begin with the chosen letter and stick them on the corresponding letters. For example, the letter "P" can be pasted over with buttons, and the letter "C" with seeds.

3. When the glue dries, kids can play with the letters, guess them by touch, trace them.

LETTERS AROUND

DEVELOPS PHONEMATIC AND WRITING SKILLS

1. You will need cardboard cards, pencils, sticky tape and writing paper.

2. Help your child write a capital letter of the alphabet on each card.

3. Walk with the child around the room, naming objects that come into view, for example: a table, an armchair, a flower, an aquarium, and so on.

4. Going to the chair, ask the child to find the card with the letter "C" and stick it on the chair. If you come across several objects with the letter "C", make a card for each of them. nine0007

LETTERS ON THE DRAWING

TEACHING TO PERFORM TASKS

1. Draw a house with a chimney, windows and a door, and flowers and trees nearby.

2. Name all the elements of the picture together with the child so that he knows where everything is.

3. Have your child write the letter "M" on a window or door. Do the same with other elements of the picture.

4. Choose another letter of the alphabet and repeat the game.

5. If it is difficult for a child to write a letter on his own, help him. nine0007

WRITE AND SAY

DEVELOPS THINKING

1. There are many simple and interesting exercises designed to help your child learn to write letters of the alphabet.

2. Select a letter.

3. Have your child write it with their finger in the air, in the sand (toe or toe), on your back or head, on a piece of paper.

4. Say out loud the sound the letter represents.

5. Write all the letters that make up the child's name in this way.

LETTERS - CARDS

TEACHING THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET

1. Take 33 cardboard cards of the same size

2. Help the child write the letters of the alphabet on the cards.

3. Shuffle the cards and ask your child to choose one.

4. Have the child name the letter and, if he can, the word that begins with it.

5. Now it's your turn - take a card, name a letter and a word.

6. Do not play more than 10 cards at a time - it will be difficult for the baby to absorb so much information. nine0007

BINGO

TEACHING TO COMPLETE TASKS

1. Teach your child this simple song:

In Spain a long time ago

There lived a nice boy Gringo,

He had a dog Bingo 9007!

B-I-N-G-O!

B-I-N-G-O!

B-I-N-G-O!

The dog's name was Bingo!

In Spain a long time ago

There lived a nice boy Gringo,

He had a dog,

The dog's name was Bingo!

(clap) - I-N-G-O!

(clap)-I-N-G-Oh!

(clap) - I-N-G-O!

The dog's name was Bingo!

Continue by clapping one letter in each new column until the dog's name is all clapping.

1. Help your child write letters on a piece of paper.

2. Together with your child, draw a boy and a dog on a piece of paper, and write the letters "B", "I", "N", "G", "O" at the bottom.

3. Sing the song again (each time saying the letters "B", "I", "N", "G", "O", point to them). nine0007

RAINBOW LETTERS

TEACHING COLORS

1. Write a big letter on a piece of paper.

2. Invite your child to trace the letter around the outline with different colored crayons or felt-tip pens. It will turn out a very beautiful rainbow letter.

3. Repeat the exercise several times, then write the child's name in capital letters, then in small letters. Let the kid turn all the letters into rainbow ones.

FRAGRANT LETTERS

DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS

1. This simple exercise will help your child to get acquainted with the letters of the alphabet.

2. Write the letters on a piece of paper with glue.

3. Without waiting for the glue to dry, sprinkle each letter with jelly powder.

4. When the letters are dry, they can be smelled and traced.

BLIND LETTERS

DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS

1. Drawing with eyes closed requires concentration.

2. You will need a sheet of paper and pencils. Ask the child to take a pencil in one hand, and put the other on a piece of paper where you will write

3. Now have the baby close his eyes (you can use a bandage) and write the first letter of his name on paper. It may not work the first time, you have to work hard. The meaning of the exercise is to clearly imagine the letter and compare hand movements with the image.

4. When the child masters the first letter, ask him to write the next one, and then the whole word.

ALPHABET GAME

DEVELOPS OBSERVATION

1. Prepare alphabet cards and place them in a box. nine0007

2. The child must pull the card out of the box and find a toy or object whose name begins with the selected letter.

3. You can play differently. The kid takes a card from the box and looks in magazines for 5 pictures with images of objects whose names begin with the selected letter.

ALPHABET DRAWINGS

ENHANCES VOCABULARY

Group Play

1. Get your crayons and markers ready and place the alphabet cards in a box. nine0007

2. Shuffle the cards.

3. Each participant takes a card at random. You can look at the letter only after all players have chosen cards.

4. Have the children draw a picture or write a word that starts with the chosen letter.

5. Give the children a few minutes to complete the task and then ask them to show each other their work.

CROSS OUT A LETTER

TEACH YOUR ALPHABET LETTERS

1. You will need colored pencils, paper, and letter cards. nine0007

2. Have your child write their name on a piece of paper.

3. Pull out a card with a letter at random and name it.

4. If the letter that appears on the card is in the child's name, it must be crossed out.

5. When the baby crosses out all the letters of his name, give him a sticker.

6. Instead of a name, you can write simple words familiar to the child on the sheet.

TOUCH LETTERS

DEVELOP YOUR SENSE

1. Cut out the initial letters of the names of family members and pets from heavy card stock. nine0007

2. Place the letters in a large cardboard box.

3. Have your child close their eyes or use a blindfold.

4. Have the child take a letter from the box and guess by touch what the letter is.

WHERE IS THE LETTER?

PROMOTES CREATIVITY

1. Prepare alphabet cards or use the ones you made earlier.

2. Ask the child to choose any letter, name it and draw an object whose name begins with that letter. nine0007

3. When the drawing is complete, have the child write a letter on it.

4. This exercise will help your child learn to match a letter with the sound it represents.

POSTMAN

ENRICHES VOCABULARY

Group Game

1. Take 33 sheets of paper and write the letters of the alphabet on them (one on each).

2. Place each sheet in a separate envelope and fold the envelopes into the large box.

3. Say: "The postman brought the mail!" nine0007

4. Give each child an envelope.

5. Have the children take turns opening the envelopes and saying the letters on the sheets.

6. Ask the children to look around the room for objects whose names begin with these letters (or which have such letters in their names).

7. Warn the children to say each word loudly and clearly, and write these words on the board or paper.

MISSING LETTERS

DEVELOPS OBSERVATION

1. Write several letters of the alphabet in a row, skipping one, for example: A_VGD or JZIK_MNOP.

2. Read the chain aloud, pausing at the missing letter.

3. Ask the child to name the missing letter.

WHERE IS THE ACE

DEVELOPS OBSERVATION

1. Give the child a deck of playing cards.

2. Show the baby an ace, note that this card has a large "T" written on it. Shuffle the cards.

3. Have the child turn over the cards and you say "no" until you see an ace. nine0007

4. When an ace hits, shout "Hurrah! Ace found!"

5. Change roles and start the game over. Now you turn over the cards, and let the kid look for an ace.

KINGDOM OF CARDS

DEVELOPS OBSERVATION

1. Children love to play with cards. There are many games to help them get familiar with letters and numbers.

2. Draw all jacks, queens, kings and aces from the deck.

3. Explain to the child that each card has its first name written on it. nine0007

4. Shuffle jacks, queens, kings and aces and have your child turn over the cards one at a time.

5. Look for the ace, saying: "Where is the ace? Where is the ace?" When you finally find it, shout: "Look, there's an ace!"

6. Then look for the jack:! Where is the jack? Where is the jack? Look, here's a jack!" Then the lady: "Where is the lady? Where is the lady? Look, there's a lady!" Then the king: "Where is the king? Where is the king? Look, here is the king!"

7. Turning over a new card, draw the child's attention to the letter written on it and say the sound that it stands for.

ALPHABETIC PHONE

DEVELOPS THINKING

1. In this game, you and your child will pretend to talk on the phone using letters of the alphabet instead of words. For example, you start: "AAAA", and the baby continues: "BBBB".

2. First explain to the child that any letter can be pronounced with different intonation, louder or quieter.

3. You can agree that each word will consist of several letters at once, for example "AABBV" or "YGD".

4. This game helps to remember the letters of the alphabet and is very popular with children. nine0007

Alphabetical Song

Develops memory

1. Sprinkle with the child alphabet:

Abvgdezozhz

Iiklmnoprst

UFHCHSHSH

Kommersant

2. Now pass several letters and stop. Let the baby sing the next letter himself, for example: "ABVG_".

3. If the child has correctly named the letter, continue the song and stop somewhere else.

4. If the child could not remember the correct letter, start the song from the beginning, sing the letter and stop, for example: "ABCD_". nine0007

5 This exercise develops abstract thinking and helps memorize letters in alphabetical order.

LETTERS IN THE NAME

HELPS TO REMEMBER THE LETTERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

We will sing this song with you.

If "G", "D", "E" is in your name,

You and I will wave our hands together.

If "E", "F", "Z" is in your name,

You and I will nod our heads together.

If "I", "Y", "K" is in your name,

You and I will blink our eyes together.

If "L", "M", "N" is in your name,

You and I will shake our hands together.

If "O", "P", "R" is in your name,

You and I will step aside together.

If "C", "T", "U" is in your name,

You and I will wave our legs together.

If "F", "X", "C" is in your name,

You and I will turn left together.

If "H", "Sh", "Sh" is in your name,

You and I will turn right together.

If there is a solid sign ("Ъ") in your name,

You and I will wave our right leg.

If the letter "y" is in your name,

Then you and I will wink at each other.

If there is a soft sign ("b") in your name,

You and I will wave our right leg.

If "E", "Yu", "I" is in your name,

We will blow a kiss to everyone.

2. You can sing not three, but one letter:

If the letter "A" is in your name,

You and I will sing a song together.

ALPHABETIC PHOTOS

LEARNING TO USE A CAMERA

1. Take pictures of objects whose names begin with the letters "A", "B", "C" and so on. Take several shots for each letter and arrange the photos in alphabetical order.

2. Have your child help you find things to photograph. nine0007

3. Show your child how to use the camera.

4. Make a separate page for each letter in the photo album and arrange the pictures accordingly.

ALPHABETIC ACTIVITIES

TEACHING THE BEGINNING LETTERS OF WORDS

1. This exercise can be done every day with different letters.

2. Write the tasks below on a blackboard or piece of paper and hang them in a prominent place.

Give me your address

Find a picture of a pineapple. nine0007

Write the first letter of your name.

Draw a squirrel.

Ride a bike.

Ask three questions.

Scream like a goose.

Draw a caterpillar.

Count the trees in the yard.

Hug a friend.

Find a spruce branch.

Find the raccoon in the picture.

Draw a hedgehog.

Tell us about your favorite animal.

Take a yellow pencil.

Guess the riddle.

Count the stars in the sky. nine0007

Play a game.

Eat toffee.

Find iodine.

Eat yogurt.

Read a book.

Open the door with the key.

Jump like a frog.

Try writing with your left hand.

Play ball.

Drink some milk.

Touch your nose.

Write zero.

Count to eleven.

Draw an oval.

Wash the dishes.

Crawl like a spider.

Draw a rainbow. nine0007

Wave your hand.

Stomp like an elephant.

Bark like a dog.

Do the dance.

Talk on the phone.

Quack like a duck.

Smile at a friend.

Take a purple pencil.

Watch a children's film.

Feed the pigeons bread.

Be good.

Walk on tiptoe.

Draw a flower.

Jump fourteen times.

Find the clock in the room. nine0007

Whisper.

Play school.

Touch your cheek.

Brush your shoes.

Eat an orange.

Chew on the cheese.

Play "cat and mouse"

Say "eniki-beniki".

Draw an excavator.

Spin around like a top.

Show me where the south is.

Wash the apple.

Crawl like a lizard.

3. If you wish, you can come up with alphabetic tasks with your child.

WHAT I SEE OUTSIDE THE WINDOW

DEVELOPS OBSERVATION

1. Look out the window and say: "I see something with the letter "A" outside the window. It's a bus."

2. List the objects you see in alphabetical order: "bus, log, bicycle, slide, tree..."

3. There are other ways to play. Write the child's name and think of a word for each letter. For example, if the baby's name is Misha, the words "car", "needle", "highway" and "watermelon" will do.

NAME THE LETTER

TEACHING THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET

Group game

1. Write the letters of the alphabet in different colors on a piece of paper.

2. Attach the sheet, for example, to a door with adhesive tape.

3. Have the children take it in turns to go to the paper, close their eyes, and point a finger at random at any letter.

4. The dropped letter must be called.

5. Older children can be offered to name not only the letters that have fallen out, but also the words that begin with them.

CIRCLE THE LETTER

DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR

1. Write 5 different letters on a piece of paper. The letters should be large and spaced quite far apart.

2. Say a letter and ask your child to circle it.

3. Continue until the child has circled all the letters on the sheet. Then write 5 more letters and repeat the task.

4. Try to play the opposite way - let the kid write and name the letters, and you circle them.

ERASE THE LETTER

DEVELOPS THINKING

Group game

1. Write 5 to 10 letters on the blackboard with chalk.

2. Say a letter and ask one of the participants to come to the blackboard and erase it.

3. Repeat the task, let the kids come to the board in turn and erase the named letters.

4. When the letters run out, invite the children to repeat the game.

5. Instead of letters, you can write on the board words familiar to the kids.

HOMEMADE "A"

PROMOTES CREATIVITY

1. You will need wooden sticks, glue and cotton balls. nine0007

2. Show the child how to make the letter "A". You need to glue 2 sticks with a hut, and then stick 3 sticks across.

3. Ask your child to pick up homemade letters "A" and sing along with you this song:

I have the letter "A",

I sing: "Ah-ah-ah!"

4. Have the child walk around the room and touch the letter "A" to each object whose name begins with this letter. nine0007

LETTERS-DOPPLES

PROMOTES CREATIVITY

1. Write a large letter "A" on a sheet of thick paper.

2. Have your child draw an "A" with eyes, a nose, and a mouth with black marker.

3. Cut out the letter and attach a wooden stick to the back with glue or tape.

4. The result is a letter-doll that can sing a song or talk about itself, for example: "Hi, I'm the letter" A ". I stand at the beginning of the words" watermelon "," bus "," stork "," apricot ", orange

5. Repeat this task with other letters of the alphabet.

LETTERS ON THE FLOOR

OUTDOOR PLAY

1. Lay out on the floor with masking tape the letter your child has just learned.

2. Have your child walk, march, jump, run, and crawl.

3. You can complete the task by singing a song:

I follow the letter "O"!

Step march on the letter "O"!

I'm jumping on the letter "O"!

Running on the letter "O"! nine0007

Crawling on the letter "O"!

4. Repeat the game with other letters of the alphabet.

LIVING ALPHABET

DEVELOPS THINKING

Group game

1. Invite the children to draw the letters of the alphabet. You can start, for example, with the letter "K".

2. Have the toddlers lie on the floor with their left arm and left leg extended to the side at an angle. It turned out the letter "K".

3. Now try to draw the letter "I". You need to lie on your side and bend your knees.

4. Draw the letter "T". Let the guys lie on their backs and stretch their arms out to the sides at shoulder level.

5. If there are three or more children in the group, you can draw the word "whale".

6. Kids love this game very much and play it with pleasure. She teaches to think creatively.

PARADE OF LETTERS

DEVELOPS THINKING AND MOVEMENT COORDINATION

1. Invite the child to march around the room while you recite a poem.

ABC SONG

Thirty-two sisters,

Written beauties,

They live on the same page,

And they are famous everywhere!

They are in a hurry to see you,

Glorious sisters, -

We ask all the guys

Make friends with them!

A, B, C, D, E, F, F

Rolled on a hedgehog!

Z,I,K,L,M,N,O

Together we climbed out the window!

П,Р,С,Т,У,Ф,Х

They saddled a rooster, -

С,Ч,Ш,Ш,Э,У,Я -

That's all they are, friends! nine0007

Get to know them, kids!

Here they are, standing side by side.

It is very bad to live in the world

For those who are not familiar with them!

Boris Zakhoder

10 WAYS TO TELL THE ALPHABET

DEVELOPS THINKING AND MOVEMENT COORDINATION

1. Information is remembered better and faster if it is accompanied by some actions. Use this rule when learning the alphabet.

2. Ask the children to tell the alphabet:

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--twice slow and twice fast;

- bouncing on the spot;

- in a thin voice very softly;

- very loud;

--very slow;

-- very, very fast;

--with a cotton after each letter;

- marching around the room;

- standing on one leg.

ALPHABETIC BOX

TEACHING TO SHARE

Group Play

1. Decorate an empty coffee tin with stickers.

2. Write the names of the children on strips of paper, roll them up and put them in a separate box.

3. Pull a piece of paper out of the box at random and read the name aloud.

4. The child whose name has been spoken must find and put in the box an object whose name begins with the same letter as his name.

5. The children can take it in turns to take the jar home and put in it objects whose names begin with the same letter as their names.

FIND YOUR LETTERS

DEVELOPS THINKING

1. Write the child's name on a piece of paper.

2. Give the sheet to the child and ask him to find objects in the room that begin with the letters of his name.

3. To make it easier for the child to complete the task, the name of Yan, for example, can be written like this: "I am an apple, H is a thread, A is a watercolor."

LETTERS IN POEMS

INTRODUCING CHILDREN'S ROEMS

", "Bunny", "Horse", "Elephant", "Airplane", "Cat". nine0007

2. Show the child the text of the poem in the book.

3. Read or recite the rhyme several times, then help your child find the letters of his name that appear in the text.

4. Children really like this game. They are happy to look for the letters of their names in poetry.

LETTERS ON THE WINDOW

PROMOTES CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

1. It is good to play this game on a cloudy day, because the room immediately becomes brighter and more cheerful from the colorful letters painted on the window glass. nine0007

2. Have your child draw letters on the glass with finger paint or tempera.

3. First have him write the letters of his own name, then the letters of the names of family members.

4. If the window is large enough, invite the child to draw different objects, and next to write the letters with which their names begin. For example, you can draw the sun, next to the letter "C".

LETTER DETECTIVE

DEVELOPS ATTENTION

1. Put old magazines and newspapers, bright markers and magnifiers in a box or basket. Explain to the child that this is the workplace of a letter detective. nine0007

2. Give the child a task to find a certain letter or several letters in the text and highlight them with a marker.

3. Invite the child to look for the letters of his name, letters from the name of the day of the week or month.

4. Children love to play detectives. They really like to look for letters with a magnifying glass.

FUN LETTERS

PROMOTES CREATIVITY

1. Explain to your child what symmetry is. Explain that many things in nature are symmetrical, such as butterfly wings. nine0007

2. Many letters of the alphabet are also symmetrical. Write on a piece of paper the letters A, B, D, E, E, F, Z, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, C, T, F, X, W, E, Y.

3. Use a mirror to check all letters for vertical or horizontal symmetry. To do this, place the mirror in the middle of the letter vertically or horizontally. From the parts written on the sheet and reflected in the mirror, a whole letter should be formed.

3. Find and name together with the child all the letters that consist only of straight lines (for example, A, D, E, P), and then those that consist only of curves (for example, Z, C, O). nine0007

4. This exercise teaches the child to analyze, to think in a new way and thus contributes to the development of thinking.

ROBIN BOBIN BARABEK

ENHANCES VOCABULARY

1. Cut out as many food photos as you can from magazines. Go through them with your baby and name each product.

2. Read with your child a poem by K.I. Chukovsky "Barabek":

BARABEK

(how to tease a glutton)

Robin Bobin Barabek

Ate forty people,

Both a cow and a bull,

And a crooked butcher.

Both cart and arc;

Both a broom and a poker.

I ate the church, I ate the house

And the forge with the blacksmith,

And then he says:

"My stomach hurts."

3. Fantasize about the theme of the poem. Assume that Ba

rabek ate peas and ask the child to choose foods that start with the same letter.

4. After the child has found the food pictures and named them correctly, choose a new letter and continue the game. nine0007

LETTER BUFFET

DEVELOPS THINKING

Group game

1. Explain to the children that you want to organize a letter buffet. Ask everyone to suggest buffet items that begin with the first letter of their name.

2. Help the children find the right foods. For example, let Vika bring grapes, and Masha - carrots. And so on.

3. You can designate a day for the letter buffet. Children love to try different treats. nine0007

LETTERS ON THE PALM

PROMOTES CREATIVITY

1. Use a non-toxic felt-tip pen to write a letter on the child's palm

2. Tell the child: "Let me read what is written on your palm."

3. Take the child's hand in yours and describe the letter, for example: "I see a very interesting letter on your palm. It consists of two sticks - a long one and a short one. The short one is located at the end of the long one. This is the letter "T".

4 .Say a few words beginning with the letter T.

5. Ask your child to think of words that start with the letter "T".

6. The more you describe the letter and the more words you choose, the more interesting the game will be.

7. Invite your child to play this game with friends and family members.

FIND THE LETTER

DEVELOPS THINKING

Group game

1. This game promotes the development of phonemic skills and teaches children to identify the initial sounds of words by ear.

2. Put small items in the box: felt-tip pens, toys, coins, pieces of paper, cubes, pencils, brushes, and so on. nine0007

3. Ask the children to sit in a circle. Place the box outside the circle.

4. Sing this song:

We are looking for the letter "A",

We are looking for the letter "A",

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah,

We are looking for the letter "A".

5. Have the children find an object in the box whose name starts with "A" and put it in the center of the circle.

6. Repeat the task with other letters until all objects are in the center of the circle.

CAPITAL LETTERS

DEVELOPS INTEREST IN READING

1. Knowing the letters is the key to learning to read successfully. The process of learning the letters of the alphabet can be made interesting and exciting.

2. You will need picture magazines, large cardboard cards, a card box, scissors, glue, and a felt-tip pen.

3. Ask your child to cut out pictures of objects with different letters of the alphabet from magazines. Try. keep the words short and simple. For example, for the letter "M" a photograph of a car or a carton of milk is suitable. nine0007

4. Stick the picture on the card and write the corresponding capital letter on top.

5. Put the cards in the box and put it in plain sight so that the baby can play with the cards on his own.

SMALL LETTERS

HELPS FORMING PHONEMATIC PRONUNCIATION

1. Prepare cards as described above (see "Capital Letters"), but write lowercase letters instead of capital letters.

2. Arrange the cards in order - upper case next to lower case. nine0007

3. When the child learns to put the cards in order, invite him to play in a new way. Point to a letter and ask them to find a picture of an object whose name begins with that letter.

4. Games "Capital Letters" and "Lower Letters" help the child learn the necessary information for further learning to read.

LETTERS IN PAIRS

DEVELOPS OBSERVATION

1. This game is based on the game "Letters-Cards", so play this game first. Write the letters on the cards, name the letters and the words they begin with. nine0007

2. Add cards with lowercase letters, shuffle them and ask your child to sort the letters into pairs - uppercase and lowercase.

3. This game also helps you learn to recognize letters.

Alphabetical singing

Teaching their voice

1. Children love to tell the alphabet and sing "Alphabetical Song":

Abvgdezozhz

IIKLMNOPRST

UFHCCHSH

Eyya 9000 9000 voices, quickly and slowly, loudly and quietly, while paying attention to how the letters sound. nine0007

3. The most important thing here is to help the children what sound this or that letter conveys.

SUN LETTERS

DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS

1. This is an exercise for a sunny, fine day.

2. Take a sheet of blue or black construction paper and have the children write letters on it using pieces of string.

3. Place the leaf in the sun. After a few hours, remove the ropes - prints of letters remained on the paper.

JOY BELL

DEVELOPS LISTENING SKILLS

Group game

1. You will need a bell for this game.

2. Children sit in a circle. A card with a letter written on it is passed around the circle. When the bell rings, the player who has a card in his hand at that moment must name the letter written on it.

3. Make a new call each time: slowly, quickly, rhythmically, loudly, softly.

4. This game also helps your child learn to recognize letters. nine0007

MUSIC LETTERS

SOCIALIZATION SKILLS

Group play

1. Distribute letter cards to children.

2. Explain that music is about to play, to which the letters will circle around the room.

3. When the music stops, each participant should join hands with the person next to them.

4. Turn on the music again, have the guys dance in pairs.

5. Stop the music and ask each pair of children to make a sentence starting with the letters on the cards. nine0007

5. After each pair has spoken the completed sentence, continue the game.

CREAM LETTERS

PROMOTES CREATIVE EXPRESSION

1. Squeeze shaving cream onto the table.

2. The child will be happy to write letters with a finger dipped in cream.

3. The work can be photographed.

SANDY LETTERS

DEVELOP THE TOUCH

Group Play

1. Cut out all the letters of the alphabet from the sandpaper. nine0007

2. Give each child two letters. You need to touch them, run your fingers along the contours and name them.

3. Blindfold the children, give one of the letters. with which they worked, and ask them to determine by touch what kind of letter it is.

4. Cardboard, glue and salt can be used instead of sandpaper. Cut out letters from cardboard, spread with glue, sprinkle with salt. Wait for the glue to dry

LETTERS IN THE POCKET

DEVELOP YOUR THINKING

1. Glue the pocket from two strips of paper. nine0007

2. Prepare the alphabet cards and place them in the box.

3. Invite the child to take a card at random, name a letter and words that begin with it, and then put the card in a pocket.

4. Show your child which cards to take and how to put them in order to get, for example, the word "cat".

5. Ask your child to name a letter, a sound, and a word, for example: "The letter 'K', the sound 'k', and the word 'cat'."

5 ways to learn the alphabet quickly and easily with a child 3-6 years old - Somersault

Before learning the alphabet with a child, it is important to understand what you will not do. Namely, learning to read. This is a more complex skill, so it is worth putting it off until the time when the child gets acquainted with all the letters and will confidently recognize them and write on their own. Until then, put off the alphabet and reading by syllables.

In this article, we have put together the basic principles to quickly learn the Russian alphabet with a 3-6 year old child in a playful way. For all games with letters, you can use plasticine, paints and any improvised means or magnetic letters TUMBLING - they will easily attract the attention of the child.

Contents:

  1. Learning the Alphabet Easily: Basic Principles
  2. 5 ways to learn the alphabet with your child
  3. From alphabet to reading

Learning the Alphabet Easily: Basic Principles

Each child can find an easy way to learn the alphabet that suits them best, but there are basic principles that are important for all children. If you do not follow them, study will turn into drill and the child is unlikely to ever love to read. Here are a few such principles on how to properly learn the alphabet for a child. nine0007

  1. Learn sounds first, not letters . At the first stage of learning, it does not matter how the letters in the alphabet are called correctly. Now only sounds are important for the child - "d", and not the letter "De". The names of the letters will only confuse the child, who first needs to learn to recognize the shape of the letters and their sound.
  2. Not learning the alphabet in the correct order . Until a child goes to school, it is of no use to him to know how the letters are arranged in the alphabet. This information will only distract him from what is really important: how the letters look and sound. The sequence of the alphabet can be learned later or even at school, where this knowledge will be tested by the teacher. nine1062
  3. Do not turn learning into a lesson . Learning from call to call is difficult even for children at school, let alone a baby. Therefore, all learning should take place in a playful way and not for long: 5-7 minutes a day to get acquainted with the letters will be enough. Gradually, this time can be increased, especially if the child likes the proposed games with letters.
  4. Use material objects . At the age of 3-6 years, the child learns the world by touch and taste. It is difficult for him to work with abstract letters spoken aloud. Therefore, it is better to stock up on plasticine and paints and create letters that are more understandable to the child and can be touched. Such a game for children will allow the child to learn the letters of the alphabet and he will recognize them in different forms regardless of what they are made of. nine1062
  5. First vowels, then consonants . Vowel sounds are easier to pronounce, so it's worth starting with them.

The main thing is not to force anyone. If you see that the child is inquisitive, enjoys exploring the world and is ready to learn, you can move on to learning letters and the alphabet. So the child will be happy to learn the alphabet in a playful way and gradually learn to read. So that the game is not abstract, you can use the magnetic letters TUMBLING.

5 ways to learn the alphabet with your child

1. Use an interesting study topic

Use your child's interest to motivate him to learn. For example, if your kid is crazy about cars, let them be the topic in which you learn the alphabet. Use any words related to cars:

"A" - bus
"B" - trunk
"C" - driver, etc.

You can show cars and their parts, draw or sculpt from plasticine. It is important that the child's focus shifts from learning to doing what they love. Additionally, the method will help expand vocabulary and knowledge about the world. nine0007

2. Cross out a letter of the alphabet in the list

Fill in a small square with arbitrary letters. The task is to cross out only the letter that you are studying. This will help the child focus on one letter and not get distracted by the ones he doesn't remember or don't know.

3. Pulling the letters of the alphabet out of the pouch

The soft-touch magnetic letters are perfect for this method. Put the letters in a bag and give the child the task, without looking, to pull out only the letter that you thought of. Let there not be too many letters in the bag, otherwise the child will get confused. 6-7 pieces will be enough. To start, use letters that are very different in shape, such as "O" and "M". Gradually, the complexity can be increased and searched among similar letters, for example, "K" and "X". Don't forget to praise and encourage your child. You can alternate the learning process with desktops. nine0007

4. Recognize letters of the alphabet by ear

You pronounce a word, and if it contains a hidden letter, the child claps his hands.

With this game for kids, you can learn individual letters or the entire alphabet. For example, you name a word, and the child inserts its first letter into the insert frame. To stimulate your child's interest, you can use only words from his favorite topic, for example, the names of animals.

5. Guess words starting with the first letter

You choose one letter and think of a word that starts with that letter. For example, the letter "Z":

- What is this animal with big ears and loves carrots?
- Hare!

This game form is again suitable for learning individual letters or the entire alphabet. If you learn only one letter, the child gets used to quickly recognizing it in different words. And if you give words with different letters, the child as a whole learns to understand with which letter they begin. With the study of the account and the English language will also help somersault.

From the alphabet to reading

When a child learns the Russian alphabet, confidently recognizes all the letters in different words and can draw or mold them on his own, it is worth moving on to reading.


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