Alphabet Activities for the Year!
Alphabet activities can be fun and engaging! These 25 alphabet activities for preschoolers teach all different parts of the alphabet including letter formation, letter recognition, and letter sounds! What I love most about these 25 alphabet activities, is that they help to make the learning process meaningful.
Alphabet Activities for Preschool
Swat the Fly Alphabet Activity
Pick a card and swat the matching letter. Differentiate by having children match uppercase to uppercase, uppercase to lowercase, or letter sound to letter.
Letter Formation Alphabet Boards
Practice letter formation with these hands-on alphabet boards. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter, write it independently, and then build it with play-doh.
Mix Them Up Small Group Alphabet Game
Children pick a card from the deck and produce either the name of the letter or the letter sound (differentiate based on the group). If they get it correct they can keep the card, if not it goes to the bottom of the deck. When you pull a “Mix Them Up!” card, everyone pretends to mix a bowl and all cards go back to start.
Build the House Letter Sound Center
Play construction worker for the day and build letter-sound houses! The base of each house has an uppercase and lowercase letter, children will find the door and roof that has images with that letter sound.
Place the keys with the correct lock by matching up the letters of the alphabet.
Build a slice of pizza by finding the crust, sauce and cheese with the same letters on them.
Complete the puzzle by matching the image to the beginning sound of the alphabet.
A fun way to practice letter recognition. Look at the letter n the top of the page and find all of the matching letters. Take your play-doh and “splat” it onto the matching letters.
Build pencils by matching the uppercase letter to the lowercase letter.
Bubblegum Consonant Vowel Sort
Sort the alphabet bubble gum pieces by consonants and vowels.
Use a clothes pin to clip the letter that represents the beginning sound of the image on the card.
Practice letter formation with this fun and tactile alphabet activity. Children pick a card and then form that letter in the sand with their fingers
. It even includes a spinner so they can determine how many times they should write the letter.
Find the missing beginning sound and circle it. For added fun, build the letter with play dough.
Practice letter formation by building uppercase and lowercase letters with popsicle sticks
Build objects that begin with specific letter sounds out of play dough.
Build letters of the alphabet using snap cubes.
Student-made books for each letter of the alphabet! Children illustrate each page of their book with items beginning with that sound. You can add as many blank pages as you’d like.
Build uppercase and lowercase letters with play dough.
The perfect guided reader for small groups, based on sounds of the alphabet.
Dab-A-Dot Alphabet Mats
Work with the uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet with these dab-a-dot mats. They can use bingo daubers, dot stickers, pom-poms and more!
Digital Lowercase Alphabet Activity
Click and drag the matching lowercase letters
Digital Uppercase Alphabet Activity
Click and drag the matching uppercase letters
Digital Letter Sounds Activity
Select the UFO with the correct letter sound
