Learning the Letters of the Alphabet with Block Letters

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When we first start introducing the letters of the alphabet in our home preschool, we like to print off a few copies of large block letters and find various ways to play with them.

We usually laminate one so that we can use it as a play dough mat. On another, we use either crayons or markers in all of the colors of the rainbow to trace the letter inside the outline, or we use them as a template for some of our alphabet letter crafts, but one of our favorite things to do with these giant block letters is to fill them with objects that begin with that letter.

They are so incredibly versatile and can be used with so many different materials and today, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorites!

Make teaching your preschooler the letters of the alphabet fun and hands-on with these printable block letters! Both upper and lowercase letters included!

Fillers for Alphabet Block Letters

Letter A

Ants (small plastic ones)
Aluminum Foil
Acorns
Paper Apple Cutouts
Alphabet Stickers
Animal Stickers
Airplanes (small plastic toys or stickers)

Letter B

Balloons (smaller, water balloon sized)
Bubbles (painting with bubbles)
Band-Aids
Buttons
Birdseed
Beans
Beads
Bugs (small plastic toys)
Blocks
Butterfly Stickers

Letter C

Candles (small birthday candles)
Toy Cars
Cereal
Chocolate
Celery (use it to make prints)
Cotton Balls
Candy Corn
Cat Stickers

Letter D

Dinosaurs (again, plastic toy ones or stickers)
Daisies
Dots (either made with bingo daubers or a hole punch)
Dirt
Diamonds (clear rhinestones)
Dandelions
Dominoes

Letter I

Ice Cubes (real if laminated, plastic if not)
Plastic Icicles
Ivy
Insect Stickers

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Letter J

Jelly Beans
Jack-o-Lantern Stickers
Jacks
Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces

Letter K

Keys
Kazoos
Kite Stickers

Letter L

Leaves
Lace
Ladybug Stickers
Toy Ladders
Plastic Lizards
Locks
Lollipops
Lobster Stickers
Lids (plastic)

Letter M

Macaroni
Play Money
Magnets
Marbles
Marshmallows
Monster Stickers
Moon Stickers or Shapes
Toy Motorcycles
M & M’s

Letter N

Nickels
Nuts
Number 9 Stickers or Stamps
Newspaper
Noodles

Letter O

Oatmeal
Octopus Stickers
Oval Shapes
Owl Stickers
Orange Manipulatives

Letter P

Paper Clips
Pennies
Pom Poms
Pretzels
Packing Peanuts
Popcorn
Pencils
Penguin Stickers
Pine Cones
Plums

Letter Q

Q-Tips
Quarters
Quilt Squares (fabric or from patterned paper)
Question Marks

Letter R

Raisins
Ribbons
Rocks
Raspberries
Rice
Toy Robots
Rope

Letter S

Sand
Star Stickers
Snowflake Stickers
Sandpaper
Sea Shells
Seeds
Plastic Spiders
Spoons
String
Safety Pins
Squares

Letter T

Toothpicks
Triangles
Toy Tractors
Toy Trains
Toy Trucks
Turtle Stickers
Toothbrushes

Letter U

Umbrella Stickers
Unicorn Stickers
Unifix Cubes

Letter V

Velcro
Velvet
Vegetables (pictures or stickers)

Letter W

Washers
Watermelon Seeds
Whistles
Worms
Walnuts

Letter X

X-Ray Stickers
Letter X Stamps

Letter Y

Yarn
Yellow Manipulatives
Yo-yos

Letter Z

Zippers
Zero Stamps
Zoo Animal Stickers