👉🏻 10 Fun Alphabet Activities To Try Today!

Sometimes, getting students to master the alphabet is tricky, whether it’s the order of the letters or the names of the letters. The alphabet song can only go so far!

I’m here to help with 10 suggestions for fun alphabet activities that will keep your students engaged and on the road to alphabet mastery in no time!

Textured Touch and Trace Letters

These are from Key Education and they have been a game changer for my kindergarteners who don’t know the letter names mid-year. The tactile element helps students retain the letter name – I have my students trace the letter with their fingers, while saying the letter name, our Fundations keyword, and the sound of the letter. For example “b-bat-/b/”. It is one of their favorite alphabet activities!

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My letters are at school, so I had to do a screen grab, but trust me, they are terrific!

Jumbo Magnetic Animal Letters

Want to know the next in my list of alphabet activities? It’s these fun jumbo animal letter magnets! They are super sturdy and adorable. Students can learn the letter names, formation, and practice saying the sounds of each letter too. Have students tracer the letters with 2 fingers (better for the brain) and say the letter name, animal name and sound, ie “t-tiger-/t/”.

If that link for the magnets didn’t work, try this one for Amazon!

Wikki Stix

In my second year of teaching, someone told me about Wikki Stix. I think they were originally created as a no glue craft option but they are terrific for practicing making letters. You can either make the letters and ask your students to name them, or have your students make them, using a model.

Concentration/Memory Game

What’s the next of my alphabet activities? Well you can easily make your own memory/concentration game with letters! This is what I did – I took index cards and a pencil, and wrote some of the capital letters and their matching lower case letters (I didn’t do all 26 letters because it would have been overwhelming). Then I mixed them up and put them face down on the table. Kids had to turn two cards over and name the letter (or letter and sound). You know how it works – if they have a match they keep them.

Pro tip: I use a pencil so the students can’t see the letter through the card while choosing two cards to turn over!

Go Fish

Easy! Take the cards for the Memory Game, mix them all up, give everyone 5 and put the rest in a draw pile. Then play Go Fish!

Letters in Sand

Put some sand ( I like this colored sand) in a plastic tub and have students make the letters in the sand with their fingers. For students who don’t like the feel of sand, they could use a marker to make the letter (with the cap on, of course)! Put out an alphabet strip for a model for students who need the model.

Fidget Poppers for Letter Formation!

The next of the alphabet activities uses those popular fidgets/ pop its! Students make the letters by popping bubbles on a fidget popper. If you want this in task card form or with recording sheets, grab my Pop It Letter Formation Activities on TPT!

All you need is a rectangular fidget popper like this one! I got this in a set from Amazon – you can find it here.

Here’s a peek at some of the materials. The task cards show the students exactly which poppers to pop to make the letter, then they can practice tracing and writing the focus letter!

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ABC Order Clip Cards

For my suggested alphabet activities, you might want to check out the brand new ABC order Clip Cards over at TPT!

They just might be the perfect literacy center activity for kindergarten and first grade! Designed to build sequencing skills and reinforce letter knowledge, this resource keeps learning fun and engaging while strengthening fine motor skills.

Check out some examples! They include cards for capital letters, lower case letters, and both. And they come in 2 sizes, and color and black and white.

Kindergarten Letters and Sounds Activities

Some kindergarteners need to learn letter and do some practice alphabet activities, bt others are ready to work with sounds. That’s where this resource comes in handy.

This was created with the science of reading in mind and includes sound and alphabet activities such as:

How many sounds? task cards
Write the starting letter
Letter writing practice pages
Color the pictures that start with the target letter
Informal letter and sound identification assessment… and MORE

Ready to make a difference in your students’ skills? Grab this resource and watch their skills soar!

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Letter Mats for Playdoh

Kids love to use Playdoh, so why not incorporate into letter formation practice? If your students are just learning the letters, you may need to give them an example to look at. Thats where these Playdoh Mats come in handy. And there are two different fonts for the mats – A Playdoh specific font and a more traditional font. You also can choose from lower case only, capital letters only, both, or short VC or VC words to use with your students!

Check out one of the mats! Easy to use and you probably already have Playdoh in your classroom.

Letter ID Assessment

Ok, this is a bonus option for the suggested alphabet activities and it’s not really “fun” but it’s pretty important! This is great to see if your students know the capital and lower case letters (and sounds). It is easy to use and efficient! And inexpensive. Grab it over at my TPT Store – or put it on your wishlist and grab it during the next sitewide sale. But it is super useful at the beginning of the school year.