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Letter B Activities for 2-Year-Olds

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Check out our fun collection of letter B activities for 2-year-olds!

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Each week, I do a set of hands-on activities with my Two to help her learn a new letter. We keep it light and simple, and on the days we do “formal” learning we spend about 15 minutes. Sometimes she plays longer if it’s a sensory activity.

These ideas are meant to inspire you to do a little learning with your toddler, if he or she is willing and interested.

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Threading beads onto pipe cleaners is such a relaxing and satisfying fine motor activity. Both my Two and Four were busy for quite some time

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I printed this color sorting mat and pulled out our tub of bear counters. I was surprised how much fun my Two had with this color sorting activity. You can see that the yellow bears are in a circle. “They’re sitting at a table, Momma.”

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To review all the letters we’ve learned so far, I wrote them on tiny dried beans so my Two could sort them in a muffin tin. Dried lima beans would be a better choice because they’re larger, but I couldn’t find them in the store.

She really enjoyed this, and my Four sat close beside her to help as needed.

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With my older kids I remember tracing a letter into play dough and having them put beads on top of the lines to form the letter. I tried that with my Two, but she wasn’t ready for that kind of a structured activity. Instead, she just enjoyed poking beads into play dough.

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Here’s a super fun, low-mess sensory activity. Just make a sink of bubbles using some dish soap. Grab a layer of bubbles and put them on a towel or plastic table cloth. Add some building toys (like our Duplos), and your child can build with bubbles. My Two and Four loved this. I was able to get the breakfast dishes clean while they built.

And you’d be surprised at how low mess this is. Bubbles make very little water.

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I like this simple butterfly craft from No Time for Flashcards.

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We also did this cute butterfly craft from Red Ted Art. The fun part was using an eye dropper to decorate the butterfly wings, so I’d call the process a win.

However, I waited too many days after the wings dried to add the clothespin, eyes, and antennae.  I have to say that by then my toddler had no interest, and she didn’t even recognize the finished butterfly as hers. So I guess this was for me. 🙂

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We used these pictures for a vocabulary builder. I named each picture, and my daughter covered each one with a counter. (Get the printable in the free download at the end of this post.)

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We sang our Little Letter B Book a few times (get it for free here).

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We had a lot of fun playing and learning this week, but I should note that my daughter didn’t remember the name of letter B at the end of the week. She often confused it with R, which isn’t surprising.

To help her, I chose six of the letters we’ve learned so far so she could sort them. This was helpful, but she still didn’t have a firm grasp of letter B at the week’s end.

No problem.

My goal is not to drill the letter names into her head, but just to have fun doing fine motor, sensory play, crafts, and more. I know she’ll learn the letters the more we talk and play with them.

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9 Comments

  1. Tania

    January 3, 2021 at 3:39 pm

    This is so great! Thank you very much

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    • Heather Groth, Customer Support

      January 4, 2021 at 3:19 pm

      You’re very welcome, Tania!

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  2. Ali

    March 19, 2020 at 8:52 am

    It’s basically impossible to do activities with stuff just hanging around the house! I have paper and that’s about it. Hard to find stuff when we are closing a house and have corona quarantine on top of it, I can’t just run to the store for more ink or little bears! 🙁

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    • Anna G

      March 19, 2020 at 10:20 am

      Yes, these days we have to make do with very little supplies. Hang in there!!

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  3. Monica Portelli

    May 24, 2019 at 12:20 am

    thanks for the good ideas
    looking forward for more

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  4. May N. Guinita

    June 23, 2017 at 4:03 am

    I’m dying to start all of these with my preschool-4 year old homeschooler. Thanks a lot for sharing!

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    • Anna G

      July 1, 2017 at 6:50 am

      I think you’ll have a lot of fun, May!

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  5. Kelly

    June 15, 2017 at 6:41 am

    I love this thank u so much, I was going out my mind on how to introduce letters and activities .

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    • Anna Geiger

      June 15, 2017 at 8:31 pm

      You’re welcome, Kelly – I hope you find lots of useful ideas in this series!

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