Turn learning letters into alphabet sensory play! Around here we enjoy hands-on play to learn our letters and this type of sensory play is wonderful for early learning. I hope you will enjoy some of the creative ways to play with the alphabet and practice letter recognition and sounds!
LEARNING LETTERS WITH ALPHABET SENSORY PLAY!
LETTERS ACTIVITIES
Check out these simple letters activities below for helping children learn their letters. Follow the links provided in blue to read more about each sensory play idea.
Alphabet Letter Recognition with Cornmeal Sensory Play & Drawing
We smoothed cornmeal on a baking tray and my son enjoyed feeling the textures and making squiggles in the cornmeal. This is also great for early writing practice! I wrote the letters on a bag of craft store shells and had him work on identifying each one and placing them in order! You could also write the letters on rocks!
WASH AND PLAY
Foam letters, soapy suds and a funny sponge make learning letters with this sensory bin lots of fun!
Shaving Cream Hide & Seek Letters
Hide letters in foamy shaving cream and play hide and seek for a great letter recognition activity.
Letter A Sensory Bin
Some children enjoy sensory bins that contain a single letter and all the items that start with that letter. It’s great for building vocabulary and eliminating thinking of the same word each time for a single letter. Of course making it into a sensory bin is even more fun! Make a bin for each of the 26 letters! 
Build LEGO Letters
Use your favorite building blocks like LEGO or Unifix Cubes to build letters! Add construction trucks too.
M is For Messy Sensory Play
This is a very fun letter recognition activity with a sprinkle of counting play too. Take a look at the post for the full description on how to get started!
Alphabet Sensory Bin Hunt
A simple sensory bin filled with corn (or filler of your choice), tongs and a fun book!
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Letters Search & Find
Add letter beads to rice for an awesome early learning sensory bin!
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Alphabet Puzzle Search
Simply add alphabet puzzle pieces to a large colored rice sensory bin and off you go searching.
Icy Letter Sounds
Combine literacy and science for a neat alphabet sensory play idea that is easy to set up!
Simple and fun ways to learn letters today! Use what you have to make the ideas work for you and your child. Letter recognition can be fun and exciting when you combine it with sensory play.
HAVE FUN LEARNING LETTERS WITH HANDS-ON PLAY!
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Amy @Wildflower Ramblings
May 7, 2013 at 7:59 pmThanks for linking to my post today 🙂 I love all your ideas here — I will have to get the sidewalk chalk out — a great, simple idea 🙂
littlebins
May 7, 2013 at 10:24 pmThanks for the extra ideas. I had gotten a whole bunch of stuff ready to go late last night with the intent of early literacy focus over the next few months and then first thing this morning I saw your post!
Lisa @ Farm Fresh Adventures
May 7, 2013 at 8:55 pmI love that table of yours! My youngest is VERY interested in the alphabet these days…but we don’t really WORK with him on anything. He prefers just holding up letters and saying them or finding them in books. I too plan on using the Confessions of a hOmeschooler program as well as the 1+1+1=1 program for letters too.
littlebins
May 7, 2013 at 10:23 pmThanks for the comments. The table is really awesome and great for all sorts of set ups. I got it for a steal on craigslist 🙂 How old is your youngest? Liam has special needs so I have to really think about what he can be successful at and still be challenging enough for him to progress. His attention is very limited. Good luck. I am going to post A in a day or two and I will have a little A bin. Just picked up alphabet pasta for my alphabet sensory bins.
Michelle
March 18, 2014 at 4:14 pmI love this my daughter would especially love catching the letters with a net!!
Suzanne Holt
September 26, 2014 at 8:39 pmWhat great ideas to make the alphabet come alive for children. Pinned.
littlebins
October 2, 2014 at 12:17 pmThanks so much!