Can you name 10 Ways to Build Preschool Letters?
Letter recognition is fun right now because we are making it all hands-on. We’re spending a lot of time creating letters, forming letters, shaping letters, and spotting letters!
I hope you will capture every opportunity to love teaching your little ones – through the mess and even the repetition. Oh the repetition!! Friend, it goes by too fast!
A loving suggestion, do not make it a big deal if the letters are backwards. Just sweetly change them to the correct position with positive words, “remember B faces this way”. Much nicer than barking, “how many times do I have to tell you B goes this way”. Let’s inspire an appetite for learning not stomp & spit all over it.
Build Preschool Letters
Here are just a few ways to Build Preschool Letters and make it all F.U.N.
- Play Doh
- Legos
- Paint letters on tile floor (our favorite, use washable paint!)
- Letter Construction Activity Set
- Trace letters in shaving cream
- Match letter magnets to letter flashcards
- Side Walk Chalk
- Foam Bath Letters
- Put snacks into letter shape
- Print letters & laminate to trace w/ dry erase markers. Scotch Thermal Laminator
Gross Motor fans? You can PLAY Preschool Letters too by trying to make their shapes (think YMCA). Or for visual kids rather than play I Spy colors, play I Spy letters! This is a great game to play especially in the car!
How are you making letter recognition for little ones fun? I’d love to hear more ideas! Don’t forget to print my free Preschool Letter Hunts!
Are you working on a Tactile Learning project? Link up a post or share an Instagram shot! You never know how you will inspire another homeschool family!
Those are some very good ideas and thank you for sharing them.
The other day my son came to me with a string and put it onto the table and told me that was a ‘R’ that he is made. I was so thrilled that he did that all by himself, he was willing to make letters( even though the truth be told I could not for the love of my God understand how that looked like an R). I think now I can use these activities with him and I am sure he will like doing it.
This, too, what make a great post to include at LWWD. -Savannah http://www.lookwhatwedid-homeschool.blogspot.com