Use letter activities similar alphabet collages or letter mats to assistance kids learn alphabetic character recognition and to reinforce letter-sound associations. Hither are over 200 material ideas that y'all can employ for your alphabet collages, letter crafts projects, or letter of the alphabet mats. A Gratuitous reference listing is included.

Letter Crafts

There is much contend in the world of early babyhood education about whether craft-making is advisable.  While I am definitely a proponent of process fine art, I believe that preschool craft activities can be beneficial in several means.  Crafts tin provide opportunities to work on strengthening fine motor skills and following step-by-step directions.

But, I like to ensure that there is room for self-expression within the project.

Alphabet Collage

Alphabet collage is a craft projection that tin also aid kids work on:

  • letter recognition
  • writing letters/ proper letter of the alphabet formation
  • reinforcing letter-sound associations
Letter activities like letter collages or letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter recognition, formation, & letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas to use for every letter of the alphabet for crafts and activities. A printable list for art and other materials are included. Better than worksheets, these are the perfect fun literacy activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans or for learning at home... a sensory activity that your kids will love!

PLUS the alphabet project can provide a bang-up sensory, tactile, and fine motor experience.    I have provided a large list of material ideas that will help yous create a collage or craft for each letter of the alphabet.   I fifty-fifty included a printable list that yous can use as a reference.

Fine Motor Activities

And then you don't desire to do a craft project?  No problem.  The materials listed below too work for fine motor activities.  Kids can place the materials on a printable letter to work on

  • letter recognition
  • letter germination
  • letter of the alphabet-sound associations
alphabet activities with loose parts

A Note About Letter of the Week Activities

Merely as the place of arts and crafts activities in the preschool classroom is up for argue, the use of a Letter of the Calendar week is likewise controversial.  If you lot do a letter of the week in your classroom, you will love the fabric list to assist you with ideas.  If you don't introduce a letter of the alphabet of the calendar week in your classroom, you will still find my material listing useful as you innovate letters and revisit letters throughout the year.

Make a Letter Page

To create a collage or letter of the alphabet mat you will first need to make a letter of the alphabet page or a page with large chimera letters on it. At that place are several ways to ready your letter pages.   Depict a big letter on a slice of construction newspaper or bill of fare stock. Make a design with a piece of cardboard or cardstock.  Then, trace the alphabetic character onto pieces of paper. You can too use printable bubble letters (I used editable ABC Collage Pages from my shop for many of the pictures here).

Letter activities like letter collages or letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter recognition, formation, & letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas to use for every letter of the alphabet for crafts and activities. A printable list for art and other materials are included. Better than worksheets, these are the perfect fun literacy activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans or for learning at home... a sensory activity that your kids will love!

At present, you tin create a collage by gluing some of the materials listed below to the page. This is the fun part!  If you want to make a letter of the alphabet mat that can be used over and over over again, just laminate the pages.  And so, kids can then place some of the items listed below inside the shape of the letter on each mat instead of gluing.

Letter of the alphabet Project Cloth Ideas List

You lot tin use just generic materials to fill in the letters, just sometimes it's fun to use a material that starts with the same letter equally the on the page.  This is where it gets tricky.  I know that you are super busy and y'all tin can't always think of things to use.  Then I have helped y'all out.

Here are a BUNCH of material ideas for every letter of the alphabet of the alphabet.  Wait at all these ideas for letter activities!

Some of the ideas piece of work well for arts and crafts projects, while others work ameliorate for a letter fine motor activity.  Scroll down to the bottom of the folio to go a printable listing that you tin can always accept on paw for reference.

Have fun and be creative!

Letter A Alphabet Activeness Cloth Ideas

  • apple stickers
  • animal stickers
  • small animals
  • ant stickers
  • plastic ants
  • toy ambulance
  • utilize the letter A every bit an air
    aeroplane rails for a toy airplane
  • animal crackers
  • avocado colored paint
letter activities with alphabet collage sheets and apple stickers

Letter B Alphabet Activity Fabric Ideas

  • blue paper strips/collage items
  • blue sticker dots, airship stickers
  • artificial berries
  • chaplet, buttons
  • dried beans
  • band-aids,
  • pocket-sized blocks
  • balloon painting
  • counting bears
  • bows
  • bubble paint
  • strips of bubble wrap
  • butterfly, problems, or bee stickers
  • plastic butterflies, bees, or bugs
  • blue torn paper
letter activities for the letter b. Alphabet collage sheets with beads.

Letter C Activities Cloth Ideas

  • motorcar stickers or stamps
  • crayons
  • torn cardboard scraps
  • candy
  • coins
  • cookies or crackers
  • modest cars
  • candles
  • cubes
  • corn kernels
  • print with an ear of small-scale corn on the cob
  • cotton (or clouds)
  • confetti
Alphabet activities for letter c

Letter of the alphabet D Materials for Alphabet Activities

  • dot markers or dot stickers
  • dinosaur counters or stickers
  • dominoes
  • dice
  • plastic ducks
  • pocket-sized plastic dinosaurs or dragons
  • domestic dog stickers
  • dog treats
  • donut holes
  • dandelions or daisies
  • daisies
  • strips of denim
  • dirt
letter d alphabet activity ideas with an alphabet collage sheet and a dot marker

Alphabetic character Eastward Cloth Ideas for Alphabet Activities

  • smashed eggshells
  • Easter egg stickers
  • erasers
  • small plaster eggs
  • googly eyes
  • impress with half a plastic Easter egg
  • Elmo stickers
  • elephant stickers or stamps
  • emoji stickers or erasers
Use emoji erasers and letter collage sheets for a letter E activity.

Alphabetic character  F Activitiy Fabric Ideas

  • feathers
  • dried or silk flowers
  • fingerprints
  • fish stickers
  • flag stickers
  • small flags
  • fruit loops
  • plastic frogs
  • plastic fish
  • photos of friends or family
  • foam
  • strips of foil
  • fur
  • fluffy, fuzzy or just plainly fabric
Alphabet activities with letter collage sheets. Use foil for a letter F activity.

Letter M Activities Material Ideas

  • use glitter pens
  • glitter or glitter paper strips
  • green collage items
  • goldfish crackers
  • Easter grass
  • grass clippings
  • drips or drops of glue
  • plastic grapes
  • pieces of glue
  • golf tees
  • game pieces
letter g alphabet activities with collage sheets and glitter foam.

Letter of the alphabet H Materials

  • smiley face stickers (happy)
  • heart stamps or stickers
  • pilus (apply doll hair from the craft store)
  • Monopoly houses
  • small plastic horses
  • equus caballus stickers
  • holes (make holes with a pigsty dial)
letter h activities with printable collage sheets and smiley face stickers.

Alphabetic character I Activities with these Materials

  • insect counters, stickers or stamps
  • water ice foam stickers
  • ink
  • plastic ice cubes
  • ivy
  • broken ice cream cones
  • plastic icicle ornaments
  • pigment with ice
letter I activities for preschoolers. Use silk ivy on a printable letter I sheet.

Letter J Action Materials

  • jingle bells
  • jellybeans
  • jewels or jewelry
  • jack-o-lantern stickers or erasers
  • junk nutrient wrappers
  • jigsaw puzzle pieces
  • jeans (denim material scraps)
  • jungle plants
  • jacks
  • pieces of bound rope
Make a letter j activity for your preschoolers with this printable and craft jewels.

Letter of the alphabet K Activity Materials

  • keys
  • cardinal prints
  • kite stickers
  • kale
  • kangaroo, kitten, or koala stickers/stamps
  • Hershey's kisses
  • lip-print stickers (kisses)
  • minor king playing cards
  • kettle corn
letter k activity with a printable and a key prrint.

Letter L Activity Materials

  • letter of the alphabet stickers
  • legos, lace
  • ladybug stamps/stickers
  • leaves (real or silk)
  • lentils
  • lids
  • lollipops
  • plastic lemons
  • lemon prints
  • Christmas lights
letter l activity with an alphabet sheet and silk leaves.

Letter Chiliad Activity Cloth Ideas

  • stale macaroni
  • marshmallows
  • play money
  • stick-on mustaches
  • markers
  • plastic mice
  • marble painting
  • thou&m's
  • monkeys (from a barrel total of monkeys game)
  • mud or mulch
  • magnets
alphabet activity for the letter m. Use mud paint on a letter m printable.

Letter N Activity Material Ideas

  • strips of newspaper
  • noodles
  • nest materials
  • number stickers
  • olfactory organ pictures
  • nuts (….every bit in nuts and bolts)
Use newspaper for a letter n activity for your preschoolers.

Letter of the alphabet O Activity Material Ideas

  • orange paper/collage elements
  • ovals (print with a squished newspaper towel scroll)
  • owl stickers/stamps
  • sea stickers or minor plastic bounding main creatures
  • oatmeal
  • mini Oreos
  • body of water animals
  • cheerios
  • stamp or paint with sliced okra
Letter o alphabet activity for preschoolers with a letter printable and an oval print.

Material Ideas for Letter P Activities

  • popcorn
  • imperial paper or collage elements
  • puzzle pieces
  • newspaper clips
  • post-it notes
  • pennies
  • pom-poms
  • Pez candies
  • paw print stickers/stamps
  • pencil
  • paint
  • torn paper
  • photos of pets
  • foam peanuts
  • pasta
  • pieces of plastic
Make a simple letter P activity with this alphabet printable and puzzle pieces.

Material Ideas for Alphabetic character Q Activities

  • squares of patterned fabric to look like a quilt
  • q-tips
  • quarters
  • question mark stamps
Make a simple letter q activity for preschoolers with this alphabet printable and squares of fabric.

Letter R Activity Materials

  • red paper or collage elements
  • rainbow stickers
  • rose petals
  • rough textures (sandpaper)
  • rocks
  • ribbons
  • rice
  • rainbow rice
  • safe bands
  • ribbon strips
  • toy rings
  • rhinestones
alphabet activities for the letter r - Use silk rose petals and this letter printable for a fun hands-on activity.

Letter S Action Materials

  • snowfall (cotton balls, white puffballs, or fake snowfall used for Christmas village displays)
  • white playdough
  • snowflake stickers
  • white glitter (snow)
  • smiley face stickers
  • spaghetti noodles
  • stamps
  • sand
  • stars
  • sequins
  • strips of string
  • drinking straws
  • straw
  • streamers
  • sticks
  • seeds
  • soil
alphabet activity idea for the letter s. Use a printable alphabet activity sheet with foam snowballs.

Cloth Ideas for Letter of the alphabet T Alphabet Activities

  • toilet paper
  • strips of tape
  • triangles
  • train stickers/stamps
  • toothpicks, tissue paper
  • tickets
  • turtle stickers
  • plastic turtles
  • pocket-sized toy tractors

Letter U Materials

  • letter u stamps/stickers
  • drink umbrellas,
  • arrow stickers or stamps (up)
alphabet activity ideas for the letter u with a letter printable and mini umbrellas

Material Ideas for Letter V Activities

  • violet newspaper or collage elements
  • artificial violet flowers
  • vegetable stickers
  • vegetable pictures from a seed catalog
  • print with vegetables
  • Valentine stickers
  • vines
Alphabet activity ideas for the letter V. Use Valentine's Day stickers on a letter V alphabet page.

Material Ideas for the Letter W

  • watermelon stickers
  • wheel prints
  • plastic worms
  • carriage wheel pasta
  • watercolor paint
  • water drops (on a laminated letter)
  • strips of washi record
alphabet activities for preschoolers for the letter W. Use these letter printables and paint them with watercolor.

Alphabetic character X Activity Material Ideas

  • alphabetic character X stamp
  • x-ray strips (I printed the 10-rays from my Doctor Dramatic Play set)
  • number six stamps
alphabet activities for preschoolers for the letter X

Letter of the alphabet Y Materials

  • yarn
  • yellow paper or collage elements
letter Y activities for preschoolers

Letter Z Materials

  • zig zags (cut small strips of zigzag paper using pinking scissors)
  • zoo animals, zippers
  • attach a zipper to a block to make a attachment print or stamp
  • small zoo animals or zoo animal stickers
  • zebra stamps or stickers
alphabet activities for preschoolers - ideas for the letter z

Become a Printable Materials List

Letter activities like letter collages or letter mats are a great hands-on way to teach letter recognition, formation, & letter-sounds. Here are over 200 material ideas to use for every letter of the alphabet for crafts and activities. A printable list for art and other materials are included. Better than worksheets, these are the perfect fun literacy activity for your preschool and pre-k classroom or lesson plans or for learning at home... a sensory activity that your kids will love!

Would you like a printable version of this list and then that yous will have it on hand when planning your letter of the alphabet activities? Click on the link beneath to download your copy.

Boosted Ideas

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  • Print a bunch of pictures of the kids in your class or pictures of your friends/family.  Kids can then paste the photos on letter pages.
  • Demark all the pages together into a family book or class book.
  • Make a book well-nigh a specific letter of the alphabet.  Use a unlike material for each page.
  • Create a name book featuring the alphabetic character in each child'due south name.

Purchase The ABC Collage Sail Printables

The editable printable ABC Collage Sheets shown in many of the pictures above can exist purchased at my shop.  Use the sheets to create a custom alphabet volume or use the pages individually.  Click on the prototype below to purchase the resource.

alphabet collage activity sheets

I hope that you accept fun using alphabet pages for letter activities.  Do you lot have additional cloth ideas that can exist added to the list?  Please let me know.