Preschool Alphabet Activities Your Preschooler Will Enjoy

Many preschool alphabet activities combine letter recognition, letter sounds and fun into one. Combining alphabet activities and projects will keep preschoolers interested while learning the alphabet.

A is for Activities

When introducing preschool alphabet activities, asking preschoolers to say objects that begin with a letter's sound provides many potential projects. A is for Apple can include a lesson on nutrition, science and math if the apples are counted before being cut into pieces for snack time. Hearing the sound the letter makes is an important part of a child's early language arts education. Cutting objects from magazines or coloring letter objects and gluing them onto paper is another way to use the A is for activity theme.

Art Mediums

Using different materials and art mediums, the alphabet can be used for many crafts. Cut apples used as stamps with paint for the letter A, buttons glued to paper for B, corn cob crafts or prints or corn mosaics could be used for C crafts.

With a little imagination and inexpensive art mediums, learning the alphabet can include lessons from many other educational areas. Edible paint made with pudding or yogurt can be used creatively before being eaten. Edible dough rolled or squeezed into shapes can be used as a math lesson, and floating bottle boats in a tub of water turns learning the alphabet into a fun science lesson.

All of these mediums can be tied into a specific letter. B is for bottle boat floated in the bathtub, for example. This project uses the letter B to as a lesson in language arts, science and a creative craft project all in one.

Paper Crafts

Paper crafts should be included in many preschool alphabet activities. Printouts to color, foam letters used as stamps and cut out shapes in a wide variety of colors can to be used often when teaching the alphabet to children. Using a wide variety of crafts will keep young minds interested.

Paper squares cut into three inch squares can be sewn together with yarn making a paper quilt. Each square will represent one letter of the alphabet. This is a paper craft that can be completed over the course of a month. Using this craft with others projects allows children to visualize their progress and practice the letters that they have learned. Adults can cut the squares and punch the holes allowing children to choose the square they want to use.

Paper plates and brass paper fasteners allow a child to create an alphabet spinner. The letters of the alphabet can be placed around the edge of the plate before the child decorates it. Using small paper cut outs of objects or stickers children can place objects near the letters before using the spinner as a game.

Games

There are many preschool alphabet games that children enjoy playing. Using a dowel rod, a magnet sheet and paper cut outs, children can fish for objects that start with a specific letter. They can use an alphabet spinner to determine which letter they want to "catch". Alphabet flash cards and object alphabet cards can be used in a group or as independent games for preschoolers. Memory games can also be played using alphabet and object cards. Young children learn easier when lessons are fun.

Finding craft, printout or active preschool alphabet activities is easy, and watching children enjoy learning while having fun brings smiles to everyone faces.

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