Alphabet activities take up a considerable amount of time in the preschool classroom. Therefore, it's important to have strong activities and plans for your students! These activities should hold student engagement, while also being meaningful to all students in the classroom. Fostering students' fine motor skills and letter-building skills should be at the top of the list when deciding on activities. Thankfully, we've put together a collection of letter activities for just that!
1. N is For Nest
Associating letters with prior knowledge is so important for students to be able to make connections. Using pompoms and maybe a story about birds will help students to understand this adorable activity! They will love to show off their hard work.
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2. N is For Newspaper
This is such a fun activity. Using a bubble letter, have students glue newspaper into the shape of both the upper-case and lower-case letters. This will help students to work with and understand the letter shape a bit better.
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3. N is For Numbers
Intertwining the curriculum is always helpful for student development. Bring some pre-math pattern skills into your student's letter learning! By using numbers they're learning or having them cut out numbers from a magazine, students will love this activity.
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4. N is For Noodles
A fun noodle activity that will have students so excited to learn their letters. Whether you're shaping letters using spaghetti noodles or searching through a noodle sensory bin, students will love this activity!
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5. N is For Night
Nighttime is a word students have been hearing in bedtime stories for years. Prior knowledge will be strong with this. Using such identifiable background knowledge is great for building students' letter recognition skills!
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6. Noodle Sensory Play
Pasta noodles are such a great addition to the classroom! Using these sensory buckets, color the noodles for more fun. You'll be able to have scavenger hunts and other activities to build student motor skills. This is also a great way to enhance student collaboration.
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7. Nighttime Sensory Play
This is a super cute nighttime activity using beans for sensory play. This can be used as an observational tool to assess learners' letter recognition skills and recognize where attention should be focused!
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8. Nature Sensory Sun Catcher!
N is for Nature, nature is filled with so many nice letter N crafts & activities. Using an activity like this one will be engaging and will also get kids outside and exploring.
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9. Rice Bin Alphabet
Rice bins are great for developing fine motor skills. Building letters in the rice is a great way to pre-practice writing skills in young learners. Students will quickly understand and be able to trace the letters they see.
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10. N is For Ninja Turtle
Ninja turtles are fun little creatures. If you've got a class that loves them, this is a great activity. You could make a ninja turtle N and glue it to a popsicle stick and have students make little puppets.
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11. Writing Practice
Prewriting skills are detrimental in preschool ages children. Using expo dry erase markers letter tracing can be easy! Students can practice over and over, while you're there to make corrections with them. They'll love drawing with these makers.
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12. Gem Nests
Nest crafts are super fun. Students should have some prior knowledge about bird nests but reading stories about them can really enhance student understanding. After reading a story make a cute nest like these with little gems as the eggs!
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13. Play-Doh Tracing
Play-doh is always an awesome letter activity. Students love to craft with play-doh. Using letter sheets have students try to fill in the letters with their play-doh. Students can do both uppercase letters and lowercase letters.
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14. N Crowns
Crowns are fun for students to make and for other students to view. Using cute crowns like this will enhance student letter recognition by not only tracing their own letters but by then viewing other letters on other students' crowns.
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15. Build Your N
Building STEM skills from a young age can be very beneficial to young learners. Using legos they will practice letter shapes, while also working on letter building.
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16. Paper Plate Nest
Nest crafts are always super cute and fun! Here's a great and simple nest craft that will use all different kinds of your student's skills. Creating this will be so engaging and enjoyable!
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17. Reading With N
A read-aloud like this is perfect for all of the nest alphabet craft ideas mentioned above. Students will love reading this story. They will especially love reading along with the read-aloud!
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18. Distance Learning N Practice
In a time when distance learning has unfortunately become a big part of our lives, we thought it was important to include a distance-learning option. This is a fun and engaging online activity for students to practice their alphabet letters.
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19. Drive & Draw
Drive and draw is something that can be done in school or at home. Fun letter alphabet crafts like this can be manipulated to fit each child. Whether they want to decorate their N cutout or drive the car!
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20. N is For Nuts Coloring
This can be colored using watercolor paints, crayons, or markers! It's a great way to connect letters to prior knowledge and real life. Students will love coloring this N-filled picture!
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