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20 Great Ways To Introduce Letter Learning Into The Every Day
Learning the letters doesn’t have to be boring – for you or your child! If you are stuck for ideas, try some of these fun and simple ways to learn the letters in your every day.
Here are 20 ways to play with letters:
Whenever you child does a painting or a drawing, write their name at the bottom and point to the letters in their name
Have magnets available to play with on the fridge or magnet board
Use letter stamps
Use letter cookie cutters
Cut letters out from magazines, newspapers or any junk mail you receive. Glue them on a poster
Make an alphabet poster – draw a picture to represent every letter together
Draw with letter stencils
Read an alphabet book
Point out letters in signs. Make it a ‘treasure hunt’ to see who can find a certain letter first
Alphabet puzzles – there are many great commercially made alphabet puzzles or make your own simple ones
Write letters in the sand
Decorate a letter
Use shaving cream to trace or write the letters
Paint the letters
Sing the alphabet song and songs that repeat a certain sound
Make the letters using your body
Do some alphabet craft – the internet has a tonne of ideas and templates!
Search for great interactive games on the web
Do activities that start with each letter of the alphabet (Don’t worry – I’ll be sending you plenty of ideas!)
READ, READ, READ! Read books, magazines, emails, recipes, instructions etc to your child.
It is often the simple little chats about letters that your child will remember because it was relevant to their day. Look for letter learning opportunities and you will find them!
Next time I’ll be answering a question I get asked a lot – ‘Should my child learn the letter names or the sounds first?’. If you’d like to receive this information straight in to your inbox, please pop your email address into the newsletter box at the top of the page.
