Learning Letters!

     I made a set of alphabet cards that cost me almost nothing. I used stuff I had around the apartment: cardstock, magazine pictures, stickers, photographs, some letter cut-outs, and a laminator I borrowed from a friend. One side of the cards have letters on them and the other side have a picture with a simple word.

     I use them to teach my son (and his cousin) their letters and letter sounds, and recently we came up with a fun game to play!
 
     First, I made four big letters on the floor with masking tape. You could also do two to make it easier. 

     The first level of this game is just calling out a letter and your child being able to identify and stand on the correct letter.

     The next level of this game is to match cards to the letters. Start out with just matching letters to letters.

     Then move on to matching the words to the letters they start with.  

 
     It’s a pretty simple game, and lots of fun! We have tried games where I just have him match cards in piles, but this game always goes much better. I think my son enjoys being active and actually moving his body... like most kids his age :-)

     Do you know of any good learning games that don't require sitting still?