• Use a white board marker to write letters on glass in your home, sliding glass door or a window.

• tell your child a letter or a sound of a letter and have them find it and erase it with a paper towel or an eraser as quickly as they can.

put sand or even sugar in a plastic container or on a small cookie sheet. Say a letter and have your child write the letter. You can also say a sound and have them write the letter that makes the sound. They can gently shake the container to erase their writing.

• You will need colored paper, a dice, black marker and a cereal bowl to trace a circle with

• trace 26 circles on colored paper and cut them out.

• Write either an upper or lowercase letter on each circle.

• Have you child help you lay them out in a rainbow pattern - they can say the letter names or sounds as they lay them out.

• Starting at one end of the rainbow, roll the dice. That is how many jumps the need to take. When they land on the letter they need to either say the name of the letter or the sound.

• To add more fun they can compete with someone to see who can get to the end of the rainbow first.

Write letters on plastic cups. Your child can roll the ball or kick the ball to try to knock over a letter cup. They can say the letter or the sound as they try to knock it over. You can also use a nerf gun and shoot at cups with letters.

• To make the puffy letters whip up a batch of super simple puffy paint by mixing together approximately equal parts white glue and shaving cream. Then dropped dollops of the mixture onto a tray and let it dry over night.

• Take a marker and write letters or numbers on each of the dry puffy balls

• The puffy letters with feel wonderful to the touch and will bounce back after they are squished or smashed. You can even take them off the tray.