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September 10, 2014

Alphabet Soup Early Literacy Activity

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Making alphabet soup with your preschoolers is a great way for them to move and learn!  They can have fun while mixing and pouring water and work on letters at the same time. It’s a fun early literacy activity that also super simple to set up.

Alphabet Soup Letter Activity for Kids! Ways to learn and play in the post.

Alphabet Soup

  • water
  • alphabet magnets or plastic letters
  • blue liquid watercolor (optional)
  • ladle (metal is fun with magnets)
  • bowls, spoons, etc

 I filled a large plastic container 2/3 of the way full with water and added blue liquid watercolor (affiliate link) to make it more fun. Then I added a bunch of our magnetic letters and a large metal ladle.  Next to the bin I set out extra bowls and spoons and called my preschooler over to play.

Practice Letters by Playing with Alphabet Soup!

She went right to work scooping and pouring and making us alphabet soup! As we played we worked in some early literacy skills like letter identification and phonemic awareness.

Early Literacy Practice:

  • Work on letter naming by identifying the letters you scoop out or calling out letters to find in the soup.
  • For kids who are just starting to work on letters you can talk about them as you eat, “This J is so yummy!”
  • Talk about the sounds the letters make and try to think of a word that starts with that sound.

ABC Practice for Kids with Alphabet Soup!

We are so excited to be bringing back our Move and Learn series for the school year!

The other Move and Learn co-hosts were busy putting together ABC Move and Learn Activities for kids this week too, make sure to check them out!

Other Ways to Move & Learn this week:

  • ABC Pumpkin Hop from The Pleasantest Thing
  • S is for Spider Web Activity from Hands on : as we grow
  • Alphabet Apple Stomp from Toddler Approved
  • Check out all our Move & Learn activities
  • Lots of ideas on our Pinterest board!

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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  1. adria l janni says

    September 11, 2014 at 9:55 am

    Love your ideas! Thank you!

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