Sound games for preschool

10 Sensational Sound Activities for Preschoolers

By MaryAnne Kochenderfer / September 14, 2022 September 14, 2022

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I love these fun ways to explore sound with kids! Fantastic hands-on learning. 10 sensational sound activities for preschoolers. Young children are fascinated by the senses. Sight and touch are easy to explore; sound requires a little bit more thought. These activities help kids notice, explore, and think about the sense of sound.

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This post started when Anna took some glitter and sequins Craft Project Ideas sent us and used them to create a simple sound game. I decided to share her activity along with nine other favorite ways to explore sound with kids.

Sound Activity #1: Guess the Sound

This is the game Anna came up with! She used paper plates and sequins, glitter, and beads, but you can use anything. Dried beans, rice, and pasta are three options that you can find in the kitchen – you can even still cook them after this activity!

Here’s a video of Anna’s game in action. If you are looking for a more durable version of this game, try our DIY maracas!

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Sound Activity #2: Shaker Eggs

DIY shaker eggs are a favorite from this blog! Take those leftover plastic Easter eggs and fill them with anything you like.

Sound Activity #3: Exploring Pitch

What makes a musical note higher or lower? Try these pitch activities to find out!

Sound Activity #4: Junk Jam Music

I love that this activity gets the kids outside! Mosswood Connections has instructions to create your own junk jam center in your backyard.

Sound Activity #5: Make a Kazoo

Kazoos are easy to make and fun to use! Buggy and Buddy has fun instructions on how to make your own kazoo.

Sound Activity #6: Make a Rain Stick

Rain sticks are delightful! I especially love this rain stick from Rhythms of Play, because you can see how it works!

Sound Activity #7: Wind Chimes

Wind chimes are an easy way to get kids curious about sound! Here is a beautiful DIY wind chime you can hang on your wall. Amazon has several fun wind chime sets. Tuned sets are especially pleasing to listen to.

Sound Activity #8: Go on a Music Field Trip

We are very lucky because our local community often has concerts that are just for preschoolers! Buggy and Buddy has a great printable for sound walks.

Sound Activity #9: Sound Waves Experiment

Edventures with kids has a fantastic science of sound waves experiment your kids will love. All you need is a ruler, spoons, and a little yarn. Buggy and Buddy has a similar sound experiment using a wire hanger and string.

Sound Activity #10: Play with Music

Music is one of the most exciting ways to explore sound with kids! This post full of musical activities for toddlers is a great starting point. This video from Nancy Kopman is an adorable introduction to harmony for kids.

Did you know that music is also a great parenting tool? I’m a music geek, but my non-musician friend Amanda over at The Educators’ Spin On It agrees. She shares some tips any parents can use to incorporate music into everyday parenting.

Do you have any favorite sound activities for preschoolers that we should try? Please share in the comments below, or on my Facebook page. You can also tag me on Instagram – I would love to see photos of this activity if you try it with your kids!

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50 Fun Alphabet Sounds and ABC Letter Games • Kids Activities Blog

Today we have a whole bunch of ABC 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. Playing ABC games together helps young kids grasp letter sounds, phonics, letter recognition and sequencing through play!

Let’s play ABC games together!

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:

Color by letter – A-E
Color by letter worksheets – F-J
Coloring by letters – K-O
Color with letters – P-T
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?

FAQs for Teaching ABC Sounds and Letters to Kids

How Do You Teach Children the Alphabet in a Fun Way?

We have tons of ideas on how to teach children the alphabet in a fun way, but here are some basic guidelines:
1. Create a game out of learning the alphabet.
2. Use flashcards in a fun and interactive way.
3. Sing the alphabet!
4. Hands on learning activities make the alphabet fun.
5. Put the letters in context so kids make connections.

What is the Most Important Thing when Teaching Letters?

The most important thing when teaching letters to kids is to make sure that the learning process is fun and engaging. Create a positive learning environment by using games, music, and tangible materials. This will help your child become more motivated to learn and be excited about the alphabet. Additionally, provide lots of fun opportunities for practice so they can become more confident in their letter recognition skills. Finally, praise your child for their efforts and successes along the way.

How do You Make Learning Letter Sounds Fun?

Learning letter sounds can be made fun by incorporating music and songs. Use recordings and YouTube videos that have catchy tunes and lyrics about the alphabet. Sing along with your child, to help them learn the letters in a more memorable way.
You can also assign each letter with an action to make it easier for your child to remember; like making the sound “sh” and then putting your hands up to your ears like a seashell.

Create word games!

Play charades with letters as clues.

Use tangible materials such as play-dough or sandpaper letters so your child can feel the shape of each letter. This helps them learn to identify and recognize each one more easily.

11 speech development games

To learn to read and write without any problems, to perceive and understand words correctly, to master any foreign language, a child must be able to distinguish sounds. Scientifically, this is called phonemic hearing. How to develop it in children of different ages, says psychologist and preschool teacher Svetlana Pyatnitskaya.

Svetlana Pyatnitskaya, preschool teacher, child and perinatal psychologist, author of educational programs for preschool children

How is phonemic hearing formed in children? Of course, in practice: in the perception of someone else's oral speech, in their own pronunciation of words. When it is well developed, the child is able to distinguish by ear the sounds of speech, and in the future - to correctly reproduce them, correlate letters and sounds. That is why it is very important that parents talk a lot with their children, read simple poems to them from a very early age, even before school. Teach toddlers to distinguish sounds in the form of fun games.

For children 2-3 years old

The purpose of games at this age is to maintain the baby's attention and interest in sounding speech, to encourage him to repeat after an adult. Start with the game "Who is calling you?" . You will need small toys in the form of various animals or pictures with their image. Place toys or pictures in boxes: these will be animal houses. Open each box in turn and show the toy. Name it and say the appropriate onomatopoeia: “This is a duck. She quacks: "Quack-quack", and this is a cow, and she lows: "Moo-mu". Invite the baby to repeat these sounds: “How does the frog talk? And the dog? Then take the animals "home" and tell the baby: "They want to play with you. Guess who's calling you?" Call the baby on behalf of each character. The game can be made more difficult by adding new animals

For 3-4 year olds

Hammers can be played anywhere, no props are required. You tell the kid: “I have a big hammer. He knocks like this: "Knock-knock-knock." I have a small hammer. He knocks like this: "Knock-knock-knock". Ask the child to close his eyes and determine which hammer is now knocking. Say the appropriate sounds.

Mother and Baby can also be played anywhere, you only need to know the text well. You say: “Once upon a time there was a cat. She gave birth to a kitten. A mother cat began to teach her baby kitten to meow. The cat meowed loudly: “Meow-meow-meow!”. And the kitten quietly repeated: "Meow-meow-meow." The kitten saw a butterfly and ran after it. The cat noticed that the kitten ran away and began to call him. But as? Loudly: "Meow-meow." And the kitten meowed in response to her. How? Quietly: "Meow-meow." The kitten returned to its mother. She began to praise him that he had heard her. Show how she praised him? And how did the kitten answer her?" Make the game harder by adding other animals to it. If there are a lot of players, you can give the kids cards with pictures of animals and their cubs. In turn, "mothers" loudly call "children", and those, in accordance with their cards, answer them.

For children 4-5 years old

A very useful game that develops the clarity of pronunciation - "Repeat" . Learn this funny couplet:

For-for-for - there is a goat in the yard.

Zu-zu-zu - I'm not afraid of that goat!

Children love to rhyme words. Encourage their imagination! You went out into the street and saw a wheel - a tractor, a big car, just a tire dug into the ground. Draw the baby's attention to the wheel, while showing with your hands how big it is: "So-so-so - that's what a wheel!". Offer to communicate for a while only like this: “Ba-ba-ba - mom, give me bread! Ta-ta-ta - eat, son, please.

Compound ball. If you are playing alone, stand in front of a child, if there are several children, let them surround you. Throw a ball to each participant in turn, while saying any syllable. The task of the participant is to catch the ball and throw it back to you, clearly repeating the syllable.

For ages 5-6

Catch the Sound . Before the game, agree that you are hunters: you will catch sounds. You name the words, and the child clap their hands only if the word has the selected sound. Let's say the sound [sh]. You say, pausing: "Cat, mouse, pen, midge, tussock, noodles, river, reeds, monkey, fur coat. " At first, it is worth highlighting the desired sound intonation, pronouncing it as a long one.

Stop . Children turn into different animals: elephants, hares, bears. Imitating the movements of the selected animal, they walk around the room. You name words that sound similar. As soon as the children hear the word “Stop” among them, they should freeze. For example: "Moan, chair, stop, knock, stop, table, drain, stop."

For children 6-7 years old

Find the sound. You name a string of three words. The task of the child is to find the sound that occurs in all words. For example, for the chain "Cat, mouth, bridge" it will be [o]. The game can be made more difficult by adding a fourth word that has no sound in common with the rest. Then the task of the child is to find the superfluous.

"Pure words" . For this game, you can choose any quatrain from the works of Agnia Barto or use similar tongue twisters:

White snow, white chalk,

The white hare is also white,

But the squirrel is not white,

even White was not.

Ask the child to say these lines in different ways: in a whisper, in a normal voice, loudly, slowly, a little faster, very quickly.

For 7-8 year olds

Fun Offer . You need to make a sentence, all words in which must begin with one sound. For example, [b]: "Baran Baranovich butted the sides of poor Bobik." This game is especially fun to play in a company: let everyone say a word so that they end up with a coherent sentence. Whoever comes up with a proposal faster and longer can be rewarded with a small gift.

Hide and Seek . This game is interesting in a new, unusual environment, such as a store or clinic. The child should see and name as many objects as possible, inside which the sounds you have defined are "hidden". For example, objects starting with the sound [p] - a shelf, with the sound [m] in the middle of the word - a lamp, and so on. You can compete: choose one sound and find words with it in turn. The one who named more wins.

These games will allow not only to develop and consolidate the skills of correct pronunciation and perception of sounds, but also to have fun. After all, the form of the game for the child is understandable and natural and does not cause protest, as it can be with other activities.

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Sound games for preschool children | Card index for the development of speech (senior group) on the topic:

Games with sounds for children of senior preschool age

Games with sounds help develop phonetic hearing and phonemic perception.

Phonetic hearing is a fine systematized hearing, the ability to distinguish and recognize the sounds that make up a word. Without a developed phonetic hearing, the correct pronunciation of sounds is impossible.

In case of phonetic underdevelopment, the child mixes voiced and voiceless, hard and soft consonants, does not distinguish between whistling and hissing, "P" and "L", "C" and "Ch" and others.

Phonemic perception is the ability to distinguish phonemes and determine the sound composition of a word. How many syllables are in poppy? How many sounds does it have? What consonant is at the end of a word? What is the vowel in the middle of a word? It is phonemic perception that helps answer these questions.

The correct development of phonetic hearing and phonemic perception underlies the unmistakable assimilation of writing and reading in the process of schooling.

“Select the word”

Invite the children to clap their hands (stomp their feet, hit their knees, raise their hands up…) when they hear the words, with a given sound.

"What sound do all words have?"

An adult pronounces three or four words, each of which has the same sound: fur coat, cat, mouse - and asks the child what sound is in all these words.

"Who is more?"

Looking at the pictures in the book together with your child, invite him to find among them those whose names contain the sound “R”. for each named word an encouraging point is given.

“Come up with more”

The leader, naming some sound, asks the players to come up with 3 words in which the given sound occurs.

"Chains of words"

This game is an analogue of the well-known "cities". It consists in the fact that the next player calls his word to the last sound of the word given by the previous player. A chain of words is formed: aist - Plate - Watermelon.

“The Fourth Extra”

For the game you will need four pictures with the image of objects, three of which contain the given sound in the name, and one does not. The adult lays them out in front of the child and offers to determine which picture is superfluous and why. The set can be varied, for example: a cup, glasses, a cloud, a bridge; bear, bowl, dog, chalk; road, board, oak, shoes. If the child does not understand the task, then ask him leading questions, ask him to carefully listen to the sounds in the words. An adult can highlight the identified sound with his voice. As a variant of the game, you can select words with different syllabic structures (3 three-syllable words, and one two-syllable), different stressed syllables. The task helps to develop not only phonemic perception, but also attention, logical thinking.

“Young Poets”

An adult gives a child a set of pictures and asks them to arrange them in pairs with similar word endings (mouses - donuts, daughters - dots, barrel - kidney, etc.). Before the game begins, you can look at the pictures, drawing the child's attention to the endings of the words denoting the depicted objects. Then, with these pairs of pictures, you can make sentences - couplets, for example:

They lived in a mink - there were mice,

And donuts lay on the table.

Echo

The game serves to exercise phonemic awareness and the accuracy of auditory perception. You can play alone or in a large group. Before the game, an adult addresses the children: “Have you ever heard an echo? When you travel in the mountains or through the forest, pass through an archway, or are in a large empty hall, you may encounter an echo. That is, you, of course, will not be able to see it, but you can hear it. If you say: “Echo, hello!”, then it will answer you: “Echo, hello!”, Because it always repeats exactly what you tell it. Now let's play echo." Then they appoint a driver - "Echo", who must repeat what he is told. It is better to start with simple words, then move on to difficult and long ones (for example, “ay”, “rather”, “windbreak”).

Catch a Fish

This game requires a magnetic rod. This is an ordinary stick, tied to it on a string with a magnet. Clips are put on pictures from any children's lotto. The child catches with a fishing rod only those pictures in the name of which there is a certain sound, selected in advance. Or a child catches a picture and calls the sound with which its name begins.