Alphabet Mats Printable

Our alphabet mats printable for playdough and our Alphabet Learning Mat Bundle are a fun way to work on fine motor skills while also practicing letter formation and letter sounds. Preschool and kindergarten students will have a lot of fun learning uppercase and lowercase letters in a hands-on way with these alphabet playdoh mats and letter recognition mats.

Both of these products are a pdf file that you can download right away. For the alphabet play dough mats, simply download the file, print, and slide the letters into sheet protectors and you’ve go a low prep alphabet activity.

These alphabet activities are a wonderful teaching tool for both homeschool moms and classroom teachers. Homeschool moms can use these abc mats as the perfect activity for extra practice with each letter of the alphabet.

Classroom teachers will find that these alphabet letter mats are a great hands-on alphabet activity for young children in centers or small group. They also make a fun, simple activity for early finishers who need an abc activity to work on while waiting on classmates.

I recommend laminating the Alphabet Learning Mat Bundle for durability (the abc play dough mats are best laminated as well). We add clear velcro dots to the back of the cut out pieces and to each of the uppercase letters on the mat.

I store each set of the cut out pieces in a little ziplock bag labeled with what is inside. This makes it so much easier to find what I want my kiddos to work on.

You can jump to the bottom of the post to grab the Alphabet Playdoh Mats and the Alphabet Learning Mat Bundle. The following sections will break down how I recommend using these two digital downloads with your little learners.

Alphabet Playdoh Mats

Playdoh is the perfect way for preschool and kindergarten students to work on their fine motor skills. My kids love playdoh, so I thought these alphabet letter mats would be a fantastic way for them to learn lowercase and uppercase alphabet letters. 

This bundle includes full-color alphabet mats for all twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Each mat has the upper case and lower case letters in large letters that provide the perfect size for your little learner to strengthen their hand muscles in an interactive way.

Each of the abc playdough mats also has multiple pictures that have the beginning sound for that letter. This provides an easy way to incorporate beginning sound practice while building letters.

These playdough letter mats are a fantastic way for young children to review multiple skills. Kids will have so much fun learning letter formation by rolling playdough to form each letter of the alphabet while also working on their fine motor skills.

While building letters young students can also work on letter recognition and practice identifying letter sounds. Throughout the activity ask children what letter they are working on, which one is uppercase and which is lowercase, and the sound the letter makes.

Have children say the name of the objects on the letter mat and isolate the beginning sound. You can even extend this activity by asking students if they can think of another word with the same beginning sound.

Another great way I have my kiddos practice letter formation with these alphabet letter mats is to give them dry erase markers and have them trace the letters. If the mats are either laminated or in page protectors a dry erase marker will wipe right off.

Markers always make writing more fun!

Alphabet Learning Mat Bundle

Are you a classroom teacher looking for a simple way to differentiate small group? Here ya go!

This bundle has one learning mat that can be used as a teaching tool for three different alphabet activities. The mat has all twenty-six uppercase letters of the alphabet and there are three pages of pieces to cut and match to the mat: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and beginning sound pictures.

Preschool children can use the cards with uppercase letters to match with the same letter on the mat. The letters are three different colors to help your little learner find the matching letters. (Homeschool moms, this is also a great tool to keep young children occupied while you work with your older students).

Pre-kindergarten students can use the cards with lowercase letters to match lowercase to uppercase letters. Again, the letters are three different colors to help students.

To practice letter identification have the student say the name of the letters as they match. Children can also practice letter sounds by identifying each sound as they place the lowercase letters on the mat.

Help kindergarten students work on sound recognition by isolating the beginning sound of a word and matching the picture cards to the uppercase alphabet letters on the mat. Have them say the name of the picture and then the sound they hear at the beginning of the word.

They can then identify what letter makes that sound. And finally they will match the picture to the corresponding uppercase letter. 

You can extend this activity by have students think of another word that starts with the same beginning sound of each picture as they place it on the mat. You can also discuss that the vowel sounds at the beginning of words can be different.

You can get the Alphabet Playdoh Mats here.

You can get the Alphabet Learning Mat Bundle here.

I hope you find these two alphabet activities to be a great tool to help your young children work on letter names, letter sounds, and letter formation.

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​If you have a little learner who wants to “do school” like my two year old, check out our Alphabet Coloring Pages. My daughter colors these many times a week while I work with my son.

Our Alphabet Maze Bundle is another great extension activity to work on letter recognition.

We also have other Learning Mat Bundles like our Number and Counting Bundles that are the perfect way to work on math skills with your preschool and kindergarten students.