Children often (and unsurprisingly) find it complicated that we have upper and lower case letters in our alphabet. It can be tricky learning which ones are which.
Here’s a fun and simple way of helping children to learn which Upper case letters match with which lower case letters:
Alphabet Cars
What do you need:
- Various toy vehicles
- Pen and Paper
- Sellotape
1.Draw out a ‘carpark’ for the toy vehicles, labelling each space with an Upper Case letter of the alphabet (ideally in order to start with). Or you can download my Free Printable to cut out here.
2. Start by supporting children to remember the names of the alphabet by asking them to park the vehicles in the letter spaces. For example, “Park the ambulance at letter A please”.
If you have any letter shapes as well, like our wooden ones from Toys of Wood Oxford you could use them to support the task.
3. Once they are confident with their upper case letters write the corresponding lower case letters onto pieces of paper and stick them to the tops of the vehicles.
4. Play! Encourage children to match the cars to their correct parking space.
Extension: You can also extend children’s learning by challenging them to spell out simple words using the vehicles.
FREE PRINTABLE here
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Brilliant, I love this idea. Thank you.
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Super cute idea for learning their letters and putting toys to use! Very inventive. #dreamteam
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Thank you! Very kind of you to say so. We really enjoyed it 😊
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This is such a good idea! We recently did something similar to aid number recognition (Baby Lighty is only two) with parking cars in numbered spaces. Great idea to do this though with the lower case letters stuck to the cars! Thank you for linking this to #DreamTeam!
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Thanks- pleased you liked it. Good idea parking you cars in numbered places- love it!
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What a super cute idea! I see some of this when in our future when the little cousins come visiting! TY for sharing! #ablogginggoodtime xoxo
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Thank you so much Lisa, hope they enjoy it- you will have to let me know if they do! Thanks for the comment.
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That is an absolutely fantastic idea, what a great way to help teach them. Thank you so much for sharing this with us on #abloggingggodtime
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Thank you. That really means a lot. Really pleased you liked it.
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What a fab idea! I’ve been wondering how to help Dee learn the difference between cases – she loves cars so this will be great 😀 #BlogCrush
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Thank you so much, hope she enjoys it- you’ll have to let me know how you get on. Thanks for your comment
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I absolutely love this play activity! Such a brilliant way to teach the alphabet, I’m going To give it a try x #fortheloveofBLOG
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Thank you so much, means a lot, let me know what you think when you’ve given it a try 😊 would love to hear how you’ve got on
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