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LEGO Alphabet Matching Game

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LEGO Alphabet Matching Game - This Reading Mama

Today, I’m sharing a VERY simple LEGO Alphabet Matching Game that I played with my 4 year old daughter. It’s super easy and is a fun way to play with letters and letter sounds. Plus, I’ll share a couple of other ways to adapt the activity for literacy learning at the end.
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Setting up the LEGO Alphabet Matching Game

  • Beforehand, I collected 8 objects from around our house (mostly toys), each starting with a different letter of the alphabet. I was careful to avoid objects that had blends at the beginning. For example, I didn’t choose blocks for b because there’s a b and l sound at the beginning. Ball for b would be a better choice.
  • Then I pulled 8 letters from our Melissa & Doug Chunky Puzzle, corresponding with the beginning sound of each object.

collect 2 of each color DUPLO LEGO brick

  • I also gathered up 8 different colored DUPLO LEGO bricks (2 of each color) and stacked them.’

 

Alphabet Matching with LEGO Bricks

setting up the alphabet matching game

  • I laid out all the letters on one side of our work space and the toys on the other side of our work space, in a column-like form.
  • First, we named all the letters and then identified all the objects by saying the name of each.

matching letters to letter sounds with LEGO bricks

  • I handed her the stack of DUPLO LEGO bricks and we matched the letter to the object beginning with that letter sound.
  • One by one, we made the sound of each letter and then said the name of each object in the column, listening for the object that started with that particular letter sound.
  • She placed one of the matching colored DUPLO LEGO bricks beside the letter and the other beside the object. We did this for each letter and object until we’d used all the LEGO bricks.

 

alphabet matching activity with LEGO bricks

  • Then, upon her request, we took up all the bricks and did it all over again! {You know you have a keeper when kids want to do it again.}

 

More LEGO Literacy Matching Ideas

matching rhyming words with LEGO bricks

Match rhyming pictures, such as cat and hat.

 

matching and listening for beginning sounds with objects

Match by beginning letter sounds using no letters, just listening and matching beginning sounds {a GREAT phonemic awareness activity}.

matching upper and lower case with LEGO bricks

Match upper and lower case letters.

Older kids and beginning readers can even match objects to beginning words. You can even adapt a matching kind of worksheet and make it hands-on!

 

 More LEGO Literacy Learning Ideas:

  • LEGO Syllable Counting
  • Spelling with LEGO Letters
  • LEGO Descriptive Writing Activity
  • LEGO Word Families

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Enjoy!

~Becky

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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