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PSPKK123August 28, 2016 •  33 Comments

Letter A Activities for 2-year-olds

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Are you teaching the alphabet to your toddler? Check out these fun letter A activities for 2-year-olds!

Letter A with a 2-year-old

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Shortly after she turned two, I began a Letter of the Week series with my younger daughter. After seeing her big sister and three older brothers do activities at the kitchen table, she was ready for her turn!

I started with A, but not because it’s the first letter of the alphabet. I began with all the letters in her name before we moved on to the rest of the letters.

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For her birthday, I’d given my toddler her own set of alphabet books. I printed the books, stapled them, and store them in a little tin lunchbox. She calls these her “ootcase books” and asks me to read them often! (Print letter A for free here.)

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I decided to mix letter recognition with something she enjoys – sensory play. I printed a set of bright letters (get them at the end of the post) and buried them in a bin of colored beans. She and my Four had fun digging around. As they played, I talked about the letters. “Did you find an A?  Look! An A!”

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Since this was our first alphabet activity, my Two didn’t have a concept of letters. She just enjoyed digging around in the dried beans and finding the cards. But you have to start somewhere, right?

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At the end of this post you’ll also find letter A pictures in the download. I printed a double set and helped my Two find matches. For the easier pictures, I asked her to find them. “Where is the apple? Can you find the alligator?” The rest were good for building vocabulary. (P.S. I changed the cards a bit, so they’re not exactly what you see pictured.)

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Since she likes putting small things into containers, I cut a slit in the top of a yogurt container so my Two could drop the cards inside. I talked about the pictures as she worked.

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I like this craft because most toddlers enjoy sticking paper onto paper. My Two enjoyed helping me with the glue stick and pressing down pre-cut squares to make this apple.

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Of course we couldn’t forget the classic apple printing activity. If you try this, be sure to put a fork in the apple so it’s easy to work with. In the past, my kids have gotten very frustrated about working with a slippery apple. But this apple printing was a success!

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I wanted to help my Two become familiar with the shape of letter A, so I printed a block letter (get yours here) and gave her some alphabet stickers to stick inside it.

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These alphabet play dough stampers were a bit pricy just for home use, but we love them! I’d definitely consider them if you teach a large group. You’ll get a lot of use out of them!

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I wrote the letter “A” on sticky notes and hid them around the room (in obvious places). My Two enjoyed collecting them and sticking them to the door. I decided early in the week that we’d focus just on capital A, since she didn’t show a quick ability to remember either the upper or lowercase letter.

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Later in the week I pulled out two printables from This Reading Mama’s Learning the Alphabet. She enjoyed using Do-a-Dot markers to (sort of!) fill in the circles.

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We did this one too, even though I didn’t focus on lowercase a this week.

You can grab your printable letter A cards and photos by clicking on the link below. And stay tuned for lots more alphabet learning in the coming months!

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