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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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ABC Games for Letters and Sounds

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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

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

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

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.

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.

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 Sounds Games for Kids Online

Children who have learned to read and spell fluently have a strong foundation for their literacy journey. You can catch an avid reader or speller early on if you focus on how they pick up letter sounds.

Letter sounds are usually introduced in preschool. Your child will continue to build on them as he or she grows. Learning can be difficult, tedious, and boring, but you can put the fun into it by using online letter sound games for kids that will keep your child engaged for hours. In time, your child will be familiar with phonetic sounds and great at recalling concepts.

Learning letter sounds games online include letter sound A games, letter sound B games, letter sound C games, all the way upto letter sound Z games. With these games, your little one can practice all the letter sounds from A to Z.

Other ELA games you can explore are: reading games, writing games, phonics games, sight words games, letter tracing games, etc.

Teaching letter sounds can be tricky. Children often get confused and can sometimes take a long time to learn this concept. This can be avoided if a strong letter and sound relationship is created at the beginning. This is the most critical step in helping children learn quickly and easily. Here are some things you can do to bring about a better letter-sound understanding:

Pick the familiar sounds first.

While teaching letter sounds, always encourage visual connections with the letter, both big and small. 

Use music and songs to teach sounds.

Online letter sound games for kids can be used to teach letter sounds with ease and fun.

Interactive letter sound games make learning and practicing letter sounds fun and engaging. They use lovely characters, exciting backdrops, brilliant audios and bright visuals to make practicing letter sounds an enjoyable process.

Children need a lot of exposure to sounds and words to become comfortable with them and games on letter sounds help kids achieve that exposure smoothly. They help kids to learn the sound of the alphabet and also be able to associate it with different words that contain the sound.

Interactive letter sound games for kids provide a holistic learning environment for children. Sounds require an auditory learning process. These games include fun visuals, rhymes and even songs that help kids build the necessary skills needed to practice letter sounds.

Letter sounds games online help teach the concept of letter sounds beautifully. They don’t go too fast or introduce new letters until your child is ready. The more practice and comfort your child achieves, the clearer the concept becomes. These games allow children to read and form associations quickly and effortlessly.

Online letter sound games help kids to trace the letters, identify their sounds distinctively and practice words starting and ending with that letter. They polish their ELA skills and help them to master the language arts at their own pace.

Educate your child using letter sound games and help introduce your child to the world of phonetics. Keep the enthusiastic learner in your child alive by using the best online games available on various apps and websites.

Some letter sound activities for kids are:
Reading recall: Pick any one sound for the day. Start with common vowel sounds like ‘s’, ‘r’, or ‘t’. Say the sound out loud, and get your child to say it too. Read out sentences where the letter is recurring. Ask your child to clap, growl, or jump each time they hear the sound. This is a great attention-building and recognition activity.
No more sound: This is a fun activity that can be practiced when your child has learned a few sounds. Draw a series of pictures on a board and give your child a duster. Now call out a sound, and ask your child to erase all the words that begin with the sound. This may take some practice, but it’s a great way to build a connection between letter sounds and words.

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Games with sounds help to 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 the case of phonetic underdevelopment, the child mixes voiced and deaf, hard and soft consonants, does not distinguish between whistling and hissing, "R" 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.

We bring to your attention some games that contribute to the development of phonemic processes.

“Select the word”

Invite the children to clap their hands (stomp their feet, hit their knees, raise their hands…) when they hear the words, with the 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 in the names of which there is a 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 images of objects, three of which contain the specified 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 the child a set of pictures and asks them to arrange them in pairs with similar word endings (mice - 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 loto. 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.

"Jokes - minutes"

You read lines from poetry to children, intentionally replacing letters in words. Children find a mistake in a poem and correct it. Examples :

Patterned tail,

boots w t orami.

Tili-bom! Tili-bom!

Catkin t ohm caught fire.

Behind the window is a winter garden,

There the leaves in and glasses are sleeping.

"Beginning, middle, end"

Teach children to identify the place of sound in a word - at the beginning, in the middle, at the end. Offer to find in the picture, among the pictures of the loto, words that start with A and end with A. Or just offer to determine the place of the sound in the word.

“Think, take your time”

Give the children a few quick-witted tasks:

– Choose a word that begins with the last sound of the word “table”.

- Remember the name of the bird, which would have the last sound of the word cheese. (sparrow, rook ...)

- Choose a word so that the first sound is "k" and the last is "a".

- Invite the child to name an object in a room with a given sound. For example: What ends with "A"; what starts with “C”, in the middle of the word there is a sound “T”, etc.

Card file of didactic games on the sound culture of speech | Card file for the development of speech (senior group):

Game "Replace the sound"

Material: Rows of words to transform, subject pictures with words to be obtained.

Game progress:

The adult sets the sound to replace the first or last sound in the word.

Then he lays out the pictures and pronounces the words, and with their help the child mentally replaces the sound in the original word with the given one and calls the resulting word aloud.

For example, you need to replace the first sound with [h] (porridge - cup, nut - seagull, suit - part) or the last sound (enemy - doctor, beak - key, chalk - sword).

As you practice, the game can be played by ear, without the use of pictures.

"What sound is missing?"

Purpose: To improve the skills of sound analysis in children.

Material: Subject pictures for each word.

Game progress:

An adult picks up pictures with words, lays them out on the table and calls them, replacing the desired sound with a pause.

The child must guess what the word is using the corresponding picture and identify the missing sound in it.

For example, pi [ ] ama - the sound [g] disappeared, wok [ ] al - the sound [h], cymbal [ ] a - the sound [k], conf [ ] a - the sound [t], mar-you [ ] ka - [w], poppy [] ony - [p], etc. An adult can pick up pictures with words for a certain sound, the pronunciation of which needs to be fixed in the child.

“Change the word”

Purpose: To practice the formation of nouns of diminutive meaning. Practice diction.

Game progress:

Children must change the words so that the sound [g] appears in them:

friend - friend,

pie - pie,

boot - boot,

snow - snowball,

horn -

horn,

meadow - meadow,

cottage cheese - cottage cheese,

flag - flag.

Extra Third

Purpose: To develop the ability to hear a certain sound in a word.

Game progress:

Of the three pictures, children must remove the one in the name of which there is no sound [sh]:

tire, lily of the valley, squirrel; hat, accordion, saw;

dove, fur coat, roly-poly; mice, banana, gun.

"Wonderful Artist"

Purpose: To develop phonemic ideas, phonemic analysis, attention, fine motor skills.

Game progress:

Draw pictures for the specified sound at the beginning, middle, end of the word. Under the pictures, based on the level of knowledge of children, it is proposed to draw a word scheme in the form of a line or a syllable scheme of a given word, in which each syllable is indicated by an arc, and indicate the place of the sound being studied.

"Who is bigger?"

Purpose: To develop phonemic ideas, auditory attention.

Game progress:

Children pick up words that begin with a given sound. (Repetitions are not allowed.)

"If you hear - clap"

Purpose: To develop auditory attention, phonemic perception.

Game progress:

An adult pronounces a series of sounds (syllables, words), a child with closed eyes, having heard a certain sound, claps his hands.

Attentive listener” (or “Where is the sound?”).

Purpose: To develop phonemic representations, attention.

Game progress:

The adult pronounces the words, and the children determine the place of the given sound in each of them.

"The right word"

Purpose: To develop phonemic representations, phonemic analysis, attention.

Game progress: On the instructions of an adult, children pronounce words with a certain sound at the beginning, middle, end of a word.

"Name the picture and find the first sound"

Purpose: To teach children to find the given first sound in a word at the stage of pronouncing the word out loud by the child himself.

Material: Picture cards.

Game progress:

Children have cards with drawn pictures.

The teacher calls any vowel sound, the children say the names of their pictures aloud and find the right one. If the picture is named correctly, the presenter allows you to close it with a chip. The one who closes their pictures first wins.

"Trap"

Purpose: To develop the ability to hear a certain sound in a word.

Game progress:

The teacher invites the children to “open the traps”, i.e. put your elbows on the table, parallel to each other, spreading your palms, which are the “traps”.

Educator: If you hear a given sound in a word, then the “traps” need to be slammed, i.e. clap your hands.

Words are selected by the teacher depending on the topic of the lesson.

"Chain of words"

Purpose: To expand the stock of nouns in the children's active vocabulary.

Material: Ball, badges, etc.

Game progress:

In this game, you need to make a chain of words so that the last sound of the previous word coincides with the first sound of the next.

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