We love the alphabet and we love creating and playing with letters. These 25 alphabet activities for kids teach all different aspects of the alphabet including letter recognition, letter sounds, letter shapes and are just plain fun! These letter activities are dynamic and are meant not just to teach the alphabet but to make learning letters a memorable and engaging experience. If you love these alphabet activities for preschoolers you will love our lesson plans for preschool. Check out our whole library here!
Letter Fishing This is a classic alphabet activity and for good reason, children adore catching letters and identifying them.
Alphabet Sensory Bin Dig and play with letters with this fun sensory bin.
Letter Matching With Stickers Work on fine motor development as well as letter knowledge with this simple activity.
Letter Pizza How fun is an alphabet activity that is also a pizza?
Alphabet Playdough Play This alphabet activity is a staple in my literacy center.
Rainbow Alphabet Alphabet activities for kids don’t get much simpler than this.
Magic Letters We love this letter activity.
Alphabet Pumpkin Patch Perfect fall activity.
Alphabet Bottle and Match Game My 2 and 3-year-olds love this.
Recycled Alphabet Earth friendly and educational.
Letter Dominoes Kids love this activity and it’s a cinch to make.
Glue Tracing Alphabet This activity is wonderful for hand strength development as well.
Letter Rainbowing Great for your writing center.
Monogrammed Napkin Rings Children love making things with “THEIR” letter, so let them!
Letter Hunt Get moving and learning with this gross motor alphabet activity for kids.
Alphabet Peg Dolls My daughter still loves these.
Texture Letters Let children see and feel letters as they are learning.
Sensory Alphabet Activities Squish, feel, and smell as you learn letters.
Play Dough Letters Make letters as you squish into play dough.
Alphabet Bead Match Game Fine motor skills will be getting a serious work out with this letter matching activity.
Learning Letters On The Go This is one of my favorite gross motor alphabet activities for kids.
Alphabet Cookies Um yum!
Alphabet Wall Mural Cooperative alphabet activities are a wonderful way to use peer scaffolding in your classroom.
Alphabet Book You can do this at home or in a class.
Jar Lid Alphabet Match Game I made these in 2008 and my students are still using them more than 10 years later!
Need more alphabet activities? Check out our list of independent alphabet activities for 3-year-olds here!
Miss Trayers says
Great ideas! Love the clothespins! Always looking for creative ways to do alphabet. Thanks for sharing.
Miss Trayers says
Great ideas! Love the clothespins! Always looking for creative ways to do alphabet. Thanks for sharing.
Mud Hut Mama says
Your timing couldn’t have been more perfect! We are just starting to work with letters. Thanks so much for putting all of these in one place. I especially love the glue tracing alphabet and the dominoes.
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Celeste says
Where do you start w/ teaching the alphabet? how many letters do you focus on in a week? Do you start w/ the letters in their name?
How old do you feel is appropriate to start?
admin says
I personally like to start with alphabet books but then move into easy simple activities – we have a series called Alphabet For Starters that is a perfect place to start. https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/category/alphabet-for-starters I would start pointing out the words in their names and I wouldn’t single out letters very much. Even when I did Letter of The Week we’d do one main craft that week of one letter but still have a whole alphabet approach. Letters work together so being taught together simply makes sense.
I don’t think there is an appropriate age to start, instead I think that watching the child and seeing if they start showing interest in letters and then jumping on board. The tricky thing is you need to expose them ( not force- just expose) to letters from an early age so they have the chance to get interested. I hope that helps!
Maro says
Thanks for sharing all these great ideas!!!
Karyn says
Love it! I stay home with my toddler and am always looking for new fun activities!
Thanks so much,
Karyn
Pooja Jain says
Lovely and practical ideas! thanks for sharing such simple ways to make learning fun and meaningful.
Jessica says
So helpful for my autistic son! Love the sensory letters!
Harriett says
I bought these for my son and he loves them. Ryan didn’t have any interest in learning his ABC’s until he had these flash cards in his hands. http://www.he-is-all-boy.com
Shaunna @ Fantastic Fun and Learning says
You have so many wonderful alphabet posts here. I hope you don’t mind that I linked to this post and some of your other ABC posts in my Top 10 Ways to Remember the ABCs post today.
Teacher Help For Parents says
This is great. I’m off to pin.
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Joan says
Wow… These are all great ideas and great resources. I’d also like to add the following to your list: http://www.letterheadsplayground.com Go to their download page to download free PDF coloring pages. I really like the unique characters. It adds personality to the learning process.