Find Your Letter

Teaching the ABC's to your child does not have to be hard, it is actually simple and can be loads of fun for your child!  Check out this FUN and EASY activity idea to teach your child the alphabet letters!  Watch the Video

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Activity: Find your letter!!!

Materials Needed:

1. Flash light
2. Dark (lights off) room or bedroom
3. Sticky Notes
4. Marker

What to do:

1. Write the alphabet letters, or the letters in your child's name, on sticky notes using the black marker. (I only did ABC to teach at this time)
2. Post them up on blank wall around the dark room you have chosen to do this activity with your child in your house. (We chose the hallway)
3. Give your child a flash light.
4. Explain to them to use the flash light to point and find the letter you are asking them to find.  Such as: Parent says to child: "Can you find the letter A?"  Child would turn on flash light and point the light to the letter A on the wall.
5. Continue teaching and learning like this until all letters have been "found" or your child no longer shows any interest.

Milestones this activity teaches child:

1. Hand-eye coordination
2. Literacy and Alphabet letters
3. Early print recognition
4. Spatial awareness
5.  Listening skills
6. Following verbal directions
7. Object permanence
8. Trial and Error

Modifications of activity:

1. For younger children (1-2 years old), just let child use the flash light to find and shine on the letters. Once they see one, parent would say/teach the letters name to child.  Help child learn how to shine the light onto the letters to find them.  Assist their hands/arms to do so.
2. Write the same letters on index cards, put inside a brown bag.  Have child pull one out one at a time and then use the visual letter card to tell child which one to find on the wall using their flash light.
3. Preschoolers - Have child find letters in a specific order, pull it off the wall when "found" with flash light, then put on another wall, building specific, easy, short words! Such as "MOM"!  Great phonics activity to teach word-building!