Kindergarten Activities

Create your own alphabet book

Listen to some of these published alphabet books for inspiration:
ABC An Amazing Alphabet by Dr. Seuss
LMNO peas by Keith Baker
Click, Clack, Quackity- Quack by Doreen Cronin
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert
- Include a few items for each letter.
- Be sure to use drawings, labels and words on each page of your book.
- Try to work on one or two pages a day!

Label it!
Your classroom uses labels to show you how words and print connect. Some of the things in
your class that are labeled are the cubbies, the bathroom, the smartboard, the word wall.
Choose a room or rooms in your house that you would like to label. Use sticky notes or index
cards to create labels. Use what you know about letters and sounds to stretch out each word as
best you can. Draw a picture of the item to go with each label.

Letters are EVERYWHERE!

Build your own alphabet collection! Search for items in your house that start with each letter of
the alphabet. Talk to your family about all the items you find. Did you find a lot of one letter over
the others? What letter did you find the least amount of? Why do you think that is?

Storytelling with pictures

We can tell our own stories by just using the pictures in a book! Choose a picture book you have
at home. Look at the pictures and think about what is happening in each one. Tell your own
story using what you see in the pictures. As you tell the story, have an adult write down what
you say or record your story. Practice reading your story back.

Let’s Eat!
What kind of restaurant do you like to visit? Burgers, sandwiches, Asian, Italian, American,
Sushi, Ice cream shops… there are endless possibilities! Create your own menu for your
restaurant. Be sure to write each food item and a description of it. (Example: Chocolate chip ice
cream- vanilla ice cream with giant chocolate chunks). You may want to include some
illustrations to match too!
How-to Recipes
Make yourself a snack or something for lunch (apples and peanut butter, a sandwich, fruit salad,
etc.). Afterwards, write out a how-to book in order to teach someone else how to make it.

Watch me grow!
Plant a seed of your choice. Take care of it by providing it with water, air and sunlight. Watch
how your plant grows over time. Keep a journal of observations to show the changes your plant
makes over time. Be sure to write the date on each journal entry, draw pictures, include labels
and write words to show what’s happening to your plant as it grows!

Free choice research

What is a topic that you are really interested in learning more about? Maybe it’s bears. Maybe
it’s the Solar System. Maybe it’s George Washington. Visit PebbleGo (username: guilford
password: lakes) and choose a topic to learn more about. After reading, create a poster, book or
video to teach someone else about that topic.

Hometown Heroes
There are so many people working hard to keep us all safe. Write a letter to a police officer or
firefighter in our town, thanking them for all of their hard work. Have a grown up mail the letter!

Sensory Walk
On a beautiful day, go for a walk outside. Notice the smells and sounds. Look closely at the little
things. Feel the fresh air and the wind. When you return, describe your walk in writing. What did
you hear? What did you see? What did you feel? What did you smell?

Spring has Sprung

Watch the Brain Pop Jr video on spring:
https://jr.brainpop.com/science/weather/spring/
Signs of Spring are popping up all around us! Spend some time keeping a springtime journal.
Add an entry every few days that tells and illustrates what new signs of spring you see.

Who Are You?

Write your own All About Me book. Teach the reader everything there is to know about you!
Where do you live? When were you born? Who is in your family? What are some things you
love? What are some things you don’t like? What are your hopes and dreams?
 Great Ideas for Practicing Letters!
(adapted from weareteachers.com)

Write letters on dried beans

Large dried white beans are inexpensive

to purchase and easy to write on. Grab a
sharpie and write all the upper and lower
case letters on them. Then put each set
in a pile (or baggie) and ask your kids to
match them. You can even practice
building sight words with the beans.

Letter sort with sticky notes

Write individual letters on sticky notes and

then place them all over your house or
just on every stair in a staircase. This
practice game has a lot of variations—all
tied to sorting. Ask kids to sort by:

● lowercase/uppercase
● letters in their name
● straight lines (H)
● curved lines (c)
● both curved and straight lines
(B)
● consonants
● vowels

For even more practice: have them sort

their finds into ABC order, match
lowercase letters to uppercase letters,
and then, find a way to sort them that’s
new.
Write letters in shaving cream

Squirt shaving cream on a table and let

your kids write letters in the cream.
Smooth it out to erase and start again.
Bonus: their hands and your table will be
cleaner than ever!

Find invisible letters with watercolors

This is a classic. Using a white crayon,

draw letters on a piece of white paper.
Give your kids watercolor, let them paint
the paper, and watch the letters appear.

Play musical alphabet

Set up letters in a big circle on the floor. You can use magnetic letters or just write
them on index cards. Put music on and have your child walk around the circle to the
music. When the music goes off, your child tells you the closest letter. Expand on it:
ask your child to name three things (colors, animals, etc) that start with that letter.
Make letters from nature

Find the alphabet right outside. Choose

natural objects that already look like
letters, or arrange them to look like them.

Make tactile letter cards

There’s lots of research (and experience)

to support the value of using all the
senses to learn. Making these tactile
alphabet cards will be fun and have
lasting benefits.
Trace letters in spices

This one combines touch, smell, and

sight. It gives you an opportunity to talk
about what we use spices for as well. Put
the bottle in front of a child and have
them write the spice name in the spice to
make things a bit more challenging.

Do the yoga alphabet

Show kids this video and take the time to learn each yoga pose. Connecting the mind
and the body is great for learning.

https://youtu.be/O0Bb5T2-b1A

Highlight letters on a page

Print a page of text or grab your favorite magazine and a highlighter. Ask kids to
highlight as many of one letter as they can find. This is also great for sight word
recognition.
Create loose part letters

What are loose parts? Loose parts are

exactly what they sound like—a collection
of loose materials or objects. These can
be small pebbles, bottle caps, random
LEGO bricks, seeds, keys, anything.
Draw big letters on a piece of paper and
have kids line up loose parts to make the
letter.