| Learning the alphabet letters is an important part of | | | | kangaroos. |
| early childhood education but it can be fun, too. Here | | | | L Fun: Make a lollipop tree with Styrofoam. Paste |
| are some fun suggestions to make alphabet fun for | | | | cotton on a lamb picture. Make a "love" collage of |
| your child. | | | | things they love. |
| A Fun: Make paper airplanes and fly them around, or | | | | M Fun: Make masks. Make a "Me" book. Make or play |
| line up chairs in 2 rows and pretend it's the inside of an | | | | with magic wands. Make macaroni necklaces. |
| airplane. Make up your own tickets, provide flags to | | | | N Fun: Have some fun with names. Make necklaces. |
| wave when the runway is clear. Pretend to be | | | | Make a "night" collage. Make up a bedtime story for |
| alligators in a swamp. | | | | the night. |
| B Fun: Make bead or button necklaces. Play with | | | | O Fun: Trace a big O and a little O on a piece of |
| balloons or beach balls. Paint butterflies: Fold white | | | | paper then glue Fruit Loops inside the O's. Make an |
| construction. paper in half - cut out a butterfly shape. | | | | opposite book. Have an orange day (wear orange |
| drop small amounts of tempera on one wing - fold and | | | | clothes) and find orange colored items around you. |
| press together. | | | | Make owl puppets or color owls. |
| C Fun: Make cotton ball art projects. Paint clown faces | | | | P Fun: Make puzzles out of cards, postcards, photos |
| on you and child. Play with clay. Play with cars. | | | | or artwork. Make popcorn. Paint. Have a pajama party. |
| D Fun: Color or paint pictures of dinosaurs. Play with | | | | Q Fun: Make a Queen for the day. Paint with q-tips. |
| stuffed dogs or real dogs (if you have them). | | | | Quack like a duck. Play quiet and loud. |
| E Fun: Decorate envelopes to mail to a friend or | | | | R Fun: Let the child draw/color rabbits and add a |
| grandparent. Pretend you are elephants. Pull out an art | | | | cotton ball tail. Make rabbit ear head bands and give |
| easel and make art. Make up your own episode of | | | | your child a cotton ball tail and pretend to be rabbits for |
| "Elmo's World". | | | | a day. Paint with radishes. Make rainbows. Have a |
| F fun: Go fishing (for real or pretend). Pretend to be a | | | | "Red" day. |
| frog. Decorate fish. Make foot prints. | | | | S Fun: Sprinkle a painting with salt so it dries all sparkly. |
| G Fun: Cut a green sponge in the shape of a G. Wet | | | | Make cloud pictures with white chalk or cotton on blue |
| the sponge and place in a shallow pan. Add water as | | | | paper. Play Simon Says. |
| needed to keep the sponge wet, but not soggy. Let | | | | T Fun: Decorate T-shirts with fabric paints or do |
| the child sprinkle on the grass seed and watch the | | | | Tie-dye. Have a tea party. Build a tower with blocks. |
| grass sprout and grow. Make art with glue and glitter. | | | | Play with trains, pretend to be trains, color pictures of |
| Make gingerbread people out of paper or cookies. | | | | trains, tell stories about trains. |
| H Fun: Make hats from construction paper and | | | | U Fun: Make "U" shapes with pipe cleaners or play |
| decorate them with stickers or cutouts of things | | | | dough. Throw balls underhand. Go up stairs. Draw |
| beginning with the letter H. Play a hopping game (frogs, | | | | pictures or tell stories about uncles. Listen to the story |
| rabbits, whatever you like) | | | | of The Ugly Duckling. Draw, color or glue a unicorn |
| I Fun: Go on an insect hunt and record your finds by | | | | picture |
| drawing pictures. Have them make an "I" collage that is | | | | V Fun: Make Valentines. Find various velcro objects in |
| all about them and their favorite things. Ice cookies or | | | | your home. Make vests from the large size paper |
| freeze juice to make special ice cubes. Make or play | | | | shopping bag or an old piece of cloth and decorate |
| with musical instruments. | | | | with glitter, ribbon, fabric scraps, vegetable stamping, |
| J Fun: Make jewelry by stringing beads. Paint or finger | | | | etc. Talk about, color and/or eat different vegetables. |
| paint with Jello. Play jumping games such as jumping | | | | W Fun: Make a mural using wallpaper samples. Make |
| races, jumping rope, jumping over things, jumping jacks. | | | | a "W" using watermelon seeds. Using pipe cleaners |
| Pretend to be jet planes and zoom around. | | | | and googly eyes, and lots of other imaginative |
| K Fun: Make paper kites and decorate. Crown a "King" | | | | doodads, make a pet/monster/whatever that has |
| for the day. Make "kisses" on paper. Color or pain | | | | Whiskers using the "W" anyway they want. |