Alphabet Fine Motor Activities-Play Dough
Help children learn to build the letters of the alphabet and strengthen fine motor skills using play dough in preschool and kindergarten.
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| Subject Topic | Alphabet |
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This pack is part of our Alphabet Fine Motor Activities series. In this series of resources you’ll find various tools to help children learn to recognize and build the letters of the alphabet.
The emphasis here is on providing a hands-on and playful way for children to interact with letters using a variety of multi-sensory materials.
Inside this set you’ll find:
Individual uppercase letter prompt cards (4 to a page)
Individual lowercase letter prompt cards (4 to a page)
Combined upper and lowercase letter prompt cards (4 to a page)
Combined upper and lowercase letter mats (1 to a page as shown below)
Tips for Use:
Print out the play dough building letter cue cards you’d like to use with your students. Consider printing on colorful paper.
You will find cue cards with uppercase only, lowercase only, and uppercase with lowercase.
Cut the pages apart into individual cards. Laminate the cue cards. If desired, you can hole punch the cards and place them on binder rings.
Encourage the children to reference the cue cards as they build the letters of the alphabet using play dough.
For added fun provide loose parts such as beads, small plastic gems, or mini erasers for kids to embellish the letters and get additional fine motor practice.
Extend the activity by challenging the children to build their names or other sight words with play dough.
If desired, the cards can also be left unlaminated.
This 52-page pack includes the following printables:
- Uppercase only cue cards
- Lowercase only cue cards
- Combined upper and lowercase cue cards
- Corresponding playdough building mats
We printed and laminated these to send home with a container of playdough as a summer packet with our pre k students to prepare for Kinder.
Andrea C. via TpT
My students love love love using these they have even used pebbles around the numbers! I love it because it is simple and effective!
Lisa H. via TpT
No better way than getting my son to work on strengthening his hands while learning his alphabet!
Nadine M. via TpT
Many of our resources address a wide range of topics. This way we can help you cover many skills in an efficient way that is still fun and engaging for children. In this section we’ve listed the key skills, not necessarily all of them.
The skills taught in this product include:
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