25 alphabet activities for toddlers and preschoolers

Here’s a super fun collection of alphabet activities for toddler and preschoolers that focus on learning through play.

25 alphabet activities for toddlers and preschoolers

All learning for toddlers and preschoolers should be based around play. They are curious about the world and keen to learn new things and we can support this enthusiasm by providing lots of opportunities for them to use their bodies and senses to explore and discover.

All this is also true when we’re introducing the alphabet. While I would never push young children to learn academics before they’re ready, having a fun environment that includes letters, and numbers, gives the opportunity to meet letters slowly and gentle as part of their play.

They can see, feel and have fun with the letters, so that when the time comes later to learn in a more structured way, they’re friends with letters already.

Here’s a great collection of alphabet activities for toddlers and preschoolers, that include letters in sensory, imaginative and active play, and give them their first introduction in a fun way.

 

Fun alphabet activities

:: Make alphabet soup

:: Hop round the alphabet

:: Rescue letters from a block of ice

:: Transport letters with your digger

:: Play a letter sorting water game

:: Make your own alphabet chart

:: Write letters in play dough

:: Eat an alphabet snack

:: Drive your cars around an alphabet road

:: Make mud pie letters

:: Explore letter and sounds sensory tubs

:: Hang the alphabet in your garden

:: Play a letter sounds matching game

:: Add shell letters and words to your sand pit

:: Play with these printable letter cards

:: Feed the bear his alphabet snacks

:: Eat your own edible alphabet

:: Trace tactile letters

:: Play letter jumping games

:: Match letter stickers

:: Give the alphabet a bath

:: Play with an alphabet sensory tub

:: Explore letter jelly

:: Park your cars in their letter parking spaces

:: Explore a letter stickers sensory pack