Give children old magazines and rounded-tip safety scissors. Have them go through the magazines and identify objects that start with a particular letter to cut out. For instance, you may start with the letter A one day and have them cut out objects beginning with that letter. After they've gone through the entire magazine, have them take all the cutouts and glue them onto a blank sheet of paper. The following day, have them repeat the exercise with the next letter in the alphabet.
Have children write down their names on a piece of paper with a marker. Then pull up alphabet flash cards one at a time. When a letter that is part of a child's name comes up, that child can cross it out. When all the letters in a name are crossed out, the child wins. If you're teaching just one child the alphabet, you will need to recruit other players. Get older children or a spouse to play along.
Choose a letter each day for 26 consecutive days, starting with A and ending with Z. Tell the child what letter corresponds with each day at the start of each day. Then instruct the child to tell you what he would like as a snack later in that day. The snack, however, has to be something that starts with the letter of the day. He may need a few hours to think this over.
Make or buy a set of alphabet cards. Choose three or four that make an age-appropriate word. Now tell the child what the word is without showing him the word. Scramble the cards and ask the child to put them in the right order. Help him by sounding out the word slowly as he tries to arrange the cards into the correct order.
To make this game even more fun for the child, hide all of the cards in the alphabet deck around the house. Tell the child what word you want him to make, then have him go find the letters needed to form that word.
Lay down a deck of alphabet cards in order on the floor in front of your child, but withhold several of the cards. Then let the child try to determine what letters are missing. For more advanced children, lay the cards out in a random order.