There are many fun ways to help your child learn the alphabet! The key word is FUN!
There are lots of great games, puzzles and books that help teach letter recognition. Here are some additional things that you can do with your child.
* Play games such as memory or go fish. You can make or buy alphabet cards with the upper and lower case letters and pictures.
* Add letters to wooden clothes pins from the dollar store. Give your child a piece of clothes line and put the pins in abc order.
This is also a great fine motor activity.
* Use your fingers to write the letters in all kinds of stuff - shaving cream, pudding on waxed paper, finger paint, colored sand in a box...
Use your imagination!
* Use alphabet cookie cutters in play dough. Or roll the play dough into "snakes" and form the letters.
* Play with magnetic letters on a cookie sheet. This activity is great for long car rides!
* String letter beads on a pipe cleaner.
* Watch Sesame Street with your child. Talk about the letters on the show.
The key is to surround your child with letters and sounds. Talk about them all the time!
Practice the sounds they make, as well as words that start with each letter.
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