8 Alphabet Activities

The easiest way to practise alphabet recognition and beginning sounds is bringing attention to them during reading aloud. And we did some activities too. I'm listing them according to level of difficulty, as some were done quite recently and some were done several months back!

1. Squeeze Paint

I mixed some flour with water and paint in a squeeze bottle (after trying out disposable baggies last time around). Then wrote A-Z on his drawing sheet and handed him the bottle.

2. Salt & glue

I wrote A-Z on his drawing sheet and handed him glue to trace over the alphabets. He then sprinkled salt over it (& I tapped off extra salt) and transferred paint via droppers.

3. Beginning Sounds & Sound Covers Packs

These are amazing packs made by themeasuredmom. He brings them out himself saying let's do this mama! Along with print outs we need alphabets and play doh caps to 'play these game'.

4. A-Z connect the dots and follow the trail (fine motor)

The earliest pre-writing practice we did was with dry erase markers over glass doors! He would connect the alphabets with colored markers.

He eventually moved to paper, using dry erase markers with print-outs kept in plastic folders. We love these A-Z trails! Plenty available on giftofcuriosity.

5. a-z post-it trail (gross motor)

He was way too excited when we did this the first time. I put post-its with an alphabet written on each on coffee table, chairs, dining table etc..and he had to follow the trail from a- z by climbing over each alphabet. We did this four times in a row the first time!

6. a-z Puzzle in his Sensory bin

This is the only wooden puzzle we still possess (we gave the rest away- since it seemed like he had memorized where each jigsaw piece went where!). Once I dumped the alphabets into his sensory bin too.

7. a-z long puzzle

We've done 1-10 and 11-20 vertical / horizontal strip puzzles - via print outs. This one seems better since it's on cardboard- so the pieces don't feel flimsy. Skillofun has similar puzzles for uppercase A-Z and numbers too.

8. a-z Dot-a-Dot sheets

We loo..ove dot-a-dot sheets and I'd found these on FabnFree. Instead of the usual ear bud painting within the dots, we used them for pom pom placement.

More Word Building Activities:

 Paint by Word   |   Peg by Picture   |   Fizzy Word Building 

 Is your child thorough with his ABC recognition, 

yet clueless about letter sounds? 

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