• Child finds A’s in Alphabits Cereal. He can use the A’s he’s found and glue them onto a pre-traced A.
• Use Applejacks, and glue onto a pre-traced A.
• Have the child try arranging the cereal pieces to copy an A without the tracing.
• Of course, child can eat some when he’s done.

B

• Write a bunch of Bb’s on the Blacktop and some letters that are not B and student must bounce a ball on each Bb and name letter while doing it.
• Make a B with the wooden unit Blocks. Have a pattern of rectangle and curved blocks traced out onto a large piece of bulletin board paper. He finds the right blocks and fills in the B just like a puzzle.
• Child makes own Bb out of wooden blocks without pattern.
• Paint Black Bb’s on light blue paper.
• Have a bunch of Boxes and put Bb on most of them and another letter on other boxes. Have student stand fairly close to the boxes and throw a ball into the boxes with a Bb on them.
• Glue Black Beans on a pre-written Bb written on Blue or Brown paper.

C

• Bite Cookies into C shapes, I use the ring shaped cookies (a circle with a hole in the middle like a donut), they’re easier then the solid circle shapes to make into c.
• Make a c with Candy Corn (or other candy) and glue them onto a pre-written c.
• Eat some Candy and Cookies.

D

• Dig for Dd’s in the Dirt. Put only Dd’s in the dirt (I use our Ellison di-cutting machine to cut out D’s with foam.)
• Dig for Dd’s in the dirt putting mostly Dd’s in the dirt and a variety of other letters in the dirt. Have two Dishes (paper plates), one for Dd’s and one for other than Dd’s. Student sorts the letters into the appropriate dish as they are pulled out of the dirt.
• Put some Dirt in a Dish and student uses finger to make Dd’s. Student can freeform the Dd’s or he could follow a pre-traced Dd on the dish.

E

• Erase chalk Ee’s with chalk Erasers.
• Erase chalk Ee’s by using his fingers to trace over Ee’s written in chalk.
• Erase dry-erase-marker Ee’s on white board by tracing Ee’s with their fingers by tracing the letters.
• Erase penciled Ee’s with pencil Erasers.

F

• Use French Fries to form into F’s.
• Use a Flashlight to trace a huge F (written in chalk on a chalkboard or on a piece of bulletin board paper hung on the wall will work).
• Paint F with Fingers using Finger paint.
• Find F around school (I have 26 pointers, paint sticks, each one has a capital foam letter glued at the tip that can be used for this type of activity.).

G

• Put Green Glitter on one cookie sheet and Gold Glitter on another. Have child make Gg in the Glitter.
• Put Glue on prewritten Gg’s on Green paper and sprinkled Gold or Green glitter on top.
• Child could trace Gg’s with Glue and when dry, child could use the dried glue Gg’s and make crayon rubbings.

H

• Hunt for Hh’s that are hiding in the school using the H pointer and dressed up as a Hunter with a Hat and binoculars. (You could just use toilet paper tubes taped together and hung on a string if you don’t have toy binoculars).
• Have student glue paper Hh’s to an origami style paper hat that you have already made.
• Write Hh’s on the sidewalk and/or black top and have him ride a stick horse to follow the H trail.
• Use a clear plastic container that you get at the deli department with lid. Make sure it is the thicker kind of lid; some places have a thin lid. You may have to test this out to see if you have the right kind of lid. Make an H or h on the lid using a permanent marker. Put the lid on the container tightly then the child Hammers Holes into the H.

I

• Using water colored with food coloring that was frozen into Ice cubes have the student trace I’s that were written onto paper. You could also just freeze the water in paper cups. If you have alphabet sand molds, you could freeze water in the I mold.
• Use the colored Ice cube to trace a big sheet of paper cut into an Ii shape.
• Eat ice-cream.
• Make Ii in Ice cream using softened ice-cream, sort of like finger-painting. Child just makes I’s in his plate of ice-cream.
• Have the child dress up as one of the “Incredibles” using a red t-shirt and a black construction paper “I” glued to his shirt (or written on shirt) with a mask and investigate the school for Ii’s.

J

• Write a bunch of J’s on the blacktop and some that are not J’s and he has to Jump his way across the blacktop jumping only on the Jj’s.
• Glue Jellybeans onto a pre-written J, eat a few at the end, and drink Juicy Juice.

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