This hands-on game helps children develop letter recognition. Draw fish shapes on construction paper, and cut them out. Print the letters of the alphabet in lowercase on the fish. Punch a hole in each fish, and place paperclips in the holes. Lay the fish on the floor. Create a fishing pole by attaching a magnet to the end of a piece of yarn, and tie the yarn to the end of a yardstick. On index cards, print the uppercase letters of the alphabet. Show children an index card. Children fish for the lowercase counterpart of the letter displayed on the index card. The child to collect the most fish wins the game. This game is ideal for two to four children.
This game provides children with letter writing practice and letter sound recognition. On a cookie sheet, place a dollop of shaving cream, and instruct children to use their hands to spread it out. Say a word aloud. Children write the letter that the word begins with in the shaving cream. For example, if you said the word apple, children would write the letter A in the shaving cream. The first child to write the correct letter earns a point. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. This game is ideal for two to four players.
Children will have fun searching for objects that begin with different letters while developing letter sound recognition. Have children assemble together. Inform them that you are going to state a letter and that their job is to search around the room for an object that begins with that letter. Say a letter--for example, C. Children look around the room searching for something that begins with the letter C--for instance, a crayon or a car. The child who first finds an item that begins with the letter you stated earns a point. The child with the most points at the end of the game wins. This game can be modified to review letter sounds at the end of a word--children search for items that end with the letter you stated.