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9 FUN and Sensory ways of Learning how to Form the Letters of the Alphabet

I love Alphabet workbooks for helping children to learn to form letters correctly. They often provide excellent guidance and are good fun.

But there are other ways of learning! 

Here’s my 8 fun and Sensory ways to practise letter formation:


  1. Kinetic Sand- its no secret that I love Kinetic Sand (see my review here). It was only recently that I thought it would be brilliant for moulding and shaping letters

 

2. Lollipop Sticks! A quick and easy way of making letters with very little prep work.


3. Pipe Cleaners! 


4. Duplo/Lego 


5. Sequins and glue 


6. Stickers 


7. Pom Poms 


8. Using home made pretend snow (click here to find out how to make!)


9. Play Foam, see our review here

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Which are your favourite? What other ways have you tried? Comment below!


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21 responses to “9 FUN and Sensory ways of Learning how to Form the Letters of the Alphabet”

  1. Karen, the next best thing to mummy Avatar
    Karen, the next best thing to mummy

    As an ex early years practitioner ( child minder) I found this really interesting #dreamteam@_karendennis

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    1. cheshiresentutor Avatar
      cheshiresentutor

      Pleased you found this interesting, thanks for stopping by 😊

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  2. cheshiresentutor Avatar
    cheshiresentutor

    Thank you! Pleased you found it of interest. We had great fun! Think our favourite is the Pom poms.

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  3. The Queen of Collage Avatar
    The Queen of Collage

    Some lovely ways in which to form letters. I particularly love the pom pom idea. #DreamTeam

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    1. cheshiresentutor Avatar
      cheshiresentutor

      Thank you! Pom Poms were our favourite too!

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      1. The Queen of Collage Avatar
        The Queen of Collage

        Returning via #ablogginggoodtime

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        cheshiresentutor

        Thanks

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  4. Rhyming with Wine Avatar
    Rhyming with Wine

    I love the sparkly foil sticky letters, in fact we might do some Christmassy craft with this idea. Thanks for linking to #DreamTeam x

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  5. The Pramshed Avatar
    The Pramshed

    This is great and my daughter is now learning the alphabet, I’m now going to start doing some of these activities at home. The duplo one looks really simple. Thanks so much for linking up at #fortheloveofBLOG. Claire x

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    1. cheshiresentutor Avatar
      cheshiresentutor

      Thank you! Would love to see what you create! I think as much exposure and fun with the alphabet as possible at an early age is great for building the foundations of learning to read and write

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  6. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    Seems obvious now you have highlighted it, any opportunity to reinforce learning in a fun way is to be commended. Our next play dough session will include making letters!

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    1. cheshiresentutor Avatar
      cheshiresentutor

      So lovely that it’s inspired you! Enjoy! Would love to see your playdough letter creations 😊

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