Fall is the perfect time to work on alphabet practice with your students. School has just started and you’ll need to assess where your students are as far as knowing and writing their letters. And there’s just so much interesting material you can incorporate for Fall!
We always want to have our students be engaged in learning but also having fun! It just makes learning so much easier and much less painful.
Your students will enjoy these fun activities!
Fall Alphabet Practice FUn
What would Fall be without the beautiful leaves? Bring some of that beauty indoors with this Fall Leaf Letter Match activity. Students will practice letter matching and recognition, and build up some hand strength by opening and closing the clothes pins.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- various colors of fall leaves (you can use real leaves or felt leaves)
- clothespins
- pen or marker
Start by using the pen or marker to write a letter on each leaf. You can do all uppercase, all lowercase, or a combination. Do the same thing on the clothes pins, again writing the letters the way that you want your kids to practice.
Then just let them start clipping the clothes pins onto the correct leaf. A note: if you’re using real leaves, they should be fairly “fresh.” If they’re too dry the clothes pins will just make the leaves crumble.
A suggestion for the youngest students: give them only 5 or 10 leaves at a time so that they won’t be overwhelmed in trying to sort through the clothes pins.
You can also incorporate some science into this activity by talking about why leaves change color, or use the leaves and/or clothes pins to spell out their names or some simple words.
homemade Alphabet book
Students learn and retain knowledge when we can make it personal. Making an Alphabet Book of their own is a fun way to achieve this.
All you need is 26 pieces of paper that can be stapled together into a book. Another option to make the book is to hole punch the pages and tie them together with a ribbon. If you’d like to add back and front pages you’ll need 2 more sheets of paper.
Students will write an upper and lowercase letter on each page. They can use crayons, markers, pencils, or any writing utensil they like. Then they can either draw or cut out a picture of something that starts with that letter. Making the books will usually take several days for most young students.
These alphabet books are a personal connection to letters and words for students. They’ll enjoy looking back at them later on.
fun fall tree alphabet match
This alphabet practice activity is similar to the Fall Leaves Match above, but if leaves aren’t available or practical to gather, then this activity would be a great replacement.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- this free tree printable or this blank customizable one
- round stickers in fall colors
- a black marker or pen
Print out the tree printable that you’d like to use. Write uppercase letters on the stickers. Then have students match the sticker letters to the lowercase letters on the tree. There are some stickers that are removable, which would help with mistakes. You can also laminate the printable for reuse.
There are several options for customizing this activity. You can make both sets of letters uppercase or lowercase. Or instead of using letters you could use numbers or shapes for matching.
Letter recognition powerpoint game
Young students enjoy games. Powerpoint games are great because students can work on their own once they understand how to play.
This Letter Recognition Powerpoint Games resource contains 3 different games for students to get fun practice in letter recognition. There is a lower case game, an upper case game, and a mixed case game. Students find the matching letters, with appropriate sad or happy sounds and faces when they choose incorrect or correct letters.
One advantage to this resource is that it can also be used as a printable making it perfect for remote or face to face teaching.
You might also like to read Letter Recognition Activities for Young Learners.
If you have a fun alphabet practice activity, share it below!
