Join the Carnival of Letter Play

Welcome to the Carnival of Letter Play!

This week’s Play Academy link-up is all about Letter Play. Please share an idea for any kind of letter play – a new post or one from your archive. Indoors, outdoors, games, songs, mark making, writing, literacy – what letter play do you enjoy? . . . → Read More: Join the Carnival of Letter Play

Go fish maths game

This maths game combines crafting, turn taking and a bit of science as well as the chance to work on counting and number ordering. It’s easy to create the materials for the game and you can adapt it to suit whichever set of numbers you’re working on – or make a set with letters if you . . . → Read More: Go fish maths game

Letter Dectective Hunt

L keeps telling me she wants to be a grown up. She wants to be a mummy with a baby, she wants to do the washing up and she keeps asking me if she’ll be able to do things ‘when I’m big numbers’. (I’d quite happily put the brakes on her and . . . → Read More: Letter Dectective Hunt

Literacy games: bingo

Here’s how to make your own bingo game to help your child practise their letters.

1. Make several grids on paper or card. You can draw them by hand or print them from the computer. You need at least one grid per player but if you make more you’ll be able to swap cards and . . . → Read More: Literacy games: bingo

Play Academy #16

Welcome back to the Play Academy community – come and add your link.

L is in love with letters this week. She has been thrilled to discover there is such a thing as a kicking k and a curly c. She is sounding out lots of words and spotting the letters . . . → Read More: Play Academy #16

make an alphabet chart

While we were making our first autumn craft of the year on Monday we also added to the sensory alphabet we’re working on. Once she’d satisfied her need to do some sticking, L made some leaf rubbings using wax crayons. We cut them out and used them as the background for our ‘l is . . . → Read More: make an alphabet chart

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