I threw this activity together when my my daughter didn’t want to go outside and I didn’t want her to watch another Doc McStuffins. This quick fun letter matching activity did the trick and we got a little play and learning in before heading out for the day. This letter match activity is quick to throw together and doesn’t use up anything. If you don’t have alphabet stamps I can’t tell you how much I love and how often we use these stamps . <– Affiliate link so if you want to see what I am raving about you can. If you are looking for a similar idea for older kids try our Stamp & Spell activity.
Gather your materials. You will need some playdough, a tray, and letter stamps with both upper and lowercase letters.
Make small circles out of your playdough. You have probably noticed that I am not doing all 26 letters, that would be too much and overwhelm most kids. If you want to make sure you are going over all letters make a list and as you do different letter activities make sure all get some play over a few days. I like to have a balance of easy achievement with some challenge too. So choose a mix of letters that they are confident at matching and some that they still need to work on.
Using the uppercase letters press a letter in each blob of playdough.
Place the lowercase letter stamps near by.
Invite your alphabet whiz to the table. Play!
She got into it right away stopping only to ask me ” This is q right?” Q has been her one tricky letter since she started recognizing letters.
Keep going. She stamped them a few times which is great but if they only want to do it once that is fine too. You can flip the playdough blobs over and let them explore with the letters at their leisure too.
Alphabet Books
All our book lists contain affiliate links.ABC x 3 English, Espanol, Francais by Marthe Jocelyn is a simplistic alphabet book in three languages. My daughter loved it and giggled while we tried to read the words in English, French and Spanish. I liked that some of the words were so similar in all three languages and some were completely different. The stark colorful illustrations by Tom Slaughter were a delightful bonus.
Alphabet Everywhere by Elliot Kaufman is a book filled with letter shapes found in the environment. My 3 year old loved seeing all the photos of letters made out of doors, ladders, pipes, wood and more. I liked that the book caused her to recognize letters in different shapes. The letters are in alphabetical order so even if some of the images aren’t clearly a letter the order can help readers figure it out.
A Isn’t for Fox: An Isn’t Alphabet by Wendy Ulmer was fun to read aloud. The text is melodic and made my daughter laugh from cover to cover. The book goes from A to Z with funny rhymes about things that don’t start with the letter before revealing what does. Cute and more fun than a plain old alphabet book.
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