15 ABC Activities for Preschoolers
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As you know, I am all for learning through play. If the children are having fun and learning whilst there add it, then life is good. I am not interested in pushing my children or making the experience unpleasant. So. Please take this Learning your ABC with caution – preschoolers are young and have PLENTY of time to learn….. but they may have fun with all of these activities? Let’s see!
One thing though to remember – the best way to start with the alphabet, is to start with the child’s name. There is something irresistible about writing your own name!
ABC Cookies
We made alphabet cookies quite innocently when my son was 2.5yrs old… not even sure WHY we did. But we did. And my, did my son ADORE it. See what we did and how it went! And see the same approach over at JDaniel4sMom’s site.
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ABC Handprint Crafts
Everyone knows you learn through doing. The kids have been enthralled with this Alphabet Handprint series. Fun all the way!
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Ice Letter
A bit of hide and seek summer fun with this ice activity from Reading Confetti.
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Mark Making Coloured Salt
The wonderful Imagination Tree has a fantastic range of fun early childhood activity ideas. Amongst these you will find mark making in coloured salt.
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Alphabet Rock Song
Let’s not forget that the Alphabet is all about sounds too. Teachpreschool is another website full of Preschool ideas – and tons and tons on teach your ABC. Here she shares an ABC song she likes to listen to with the kids. My personal favourite is the Phonics 2 ABC song.
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Chalkboard “Painting”
Similarly check out One Perfect Day for practising letters on chalkboard – a paint brush and water will suffice! Find another over at Mama Scout where the kids get to trace the whole alphabet on chalkboard.
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Creativity with the Alphabet
Royal Baloo shows us to get creative with the Alphabet – other than writing a letter, how else can you recreate it? With lego, bodyparts, playdough and drawing. Check it out.
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Photo Alphabet Hunt
One that older children will delight in too – a photo alphabet hunt. See Mama Scout again for more information!
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Squirty Alphabet
More summer fun – which child does not LOVE squirting water? Well, incorporate some letters and you have both play and learning in one. See Train Up a Child for more!
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Alphabet Sensory Bin
Or check out The Good Long Road’s Alphabet Sensory bin? Another “different” way to explore your ABC.
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Playdough Letter Impressions
Explore and play with playdough and whilst youa re at it through in some letter recognition. Another wonderful activity from The Imagination Tree (aka Queen of Playdough).
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Cress Initials
As mentioned, start with the child’s name and their intials and they will be hooked! I ADORE these Cress Initials. How fun?! Again, The Imagination Tree shares her ABC activities.
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ABC Easter Eggs
Another great early childhood blog is No Time For Flashcards, with a host of marvellous activities and crafts. Here she shares here ABC Easter Eggs. Fun!!! (Check out the photos of her little girl playing it).
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Buried Alphabet
Dirt and Boogers shows us that keeping it simple, works, as well as more ABC ideas.
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ABC Colours and Shapes
Create your own set of ABCs and incorporate colours and shapes, as Glittering Muffins shows us. Then have lots of playtime fun.
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ABC Pasta Fun
Use pasta and boxes to recreate letters as JDaniel4sMom shows us.
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ABC Mat Game
Many of us have these ABC foam mats at home.. so here is a simple, yet effective ABC mat game you can play, thanks to Hands On As We Grow!
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These are some really fab ideas – I love that even I can do most of them, and I am craft-y challenged…
Hooray! Yes.. for us every day mums!!!
Love this list! Thanks for including our letter ice hunt!
My pleasure, that is such a fun and cute idea!
What a great round up of ideas. I’ll definitely be trying several of these. Thanks so much for including our chalkboard water painting idea!
My pleasure!
thanks for including me! what a great list! i will pass on… i am sure lots of parents to preschoolers would love this!
Thank you for passing this on and a pleasure to include you!
What great ideas! Thank you for sharing mine.
These are great ideas. I really like the ice letters, such a fun activity for when the sun is blazing. My kiddos like making letters in shaving cream!
Awe thanks, I did enjoy putting list together! And agree.. the ice activity is fun!! Great way to cool down a little too!
I always love your round-ups and thanks for including us!
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