Magazine Letter Hunt and Sort Activity

This letter hunt and sort activity was a big hit with my son! It was also a great way to develop scissor skills while learning to recognize letters. It was very quick and easy to set up, but extremely effective!

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My son can recognize most of the letters in the alphabet now, thanks to the many alphabet activities we’ve done, but there are a few letters that he still struggles with. This letter hunt and sort activity was an excellent way to give him more practice with identifying these letters. I also try to sneak fine motor practice or scissor skills into many of the activities we do. This activity was jam-packed with cutting practice!

 

Magazine Letter Hunt and Sort Activity

Supplies Needed:

• The Letter Hunt and Sort printable {free printable at the end of this post}
• A child-friendly magazine
• Scissors
• Glue stick

After I printed out the letter hunt and sort sheet, I picked a letter to have Evan work on. I chose the letter “g” because he has difficulty identifying it. I wrote “G” in the box on one side of the sheet and “g” in the box on the other side of the sheet. You could also work on two different letters.

I instructed my son to search through the magazine to find the letters, cut them out and then glue them to the correct side of the printable.

I was pleasantly surprised by how excited he was to do this activity! He loved looking through the magazine and searching for the letters. I worried that he may get tired with the concentration needed to cut the letters out, but he really enjoyed it. Even when I was ready to end the activity, he wanted to keep going!

 

One thing I did was rip the page out of the magazine when he found the letter. It was far too hard for him to hold on to the whole magazine and try to cut out the letter. For younger children, you might even try ripping out pages that contain the letters you are working on ahead of time. Then your child can search through the pages to find the letters.

 

 

The best part of this activity is that it was very effective at helping him recognize the letter “g.” We have done other alphabet activities since doing this one and he has had no problems identifying it. After searching around for the letter and cutting it out over and over again, he has committed it to memory. This is something we plan to do again very soon!

 

Danielle is a former elementary school teacher, a mom of two, and the blogger behind Mom Inspired Life. She enjoys doing playful learning activities with her kids and sharing them with her readers. You can connect with her by subscribing to her newsletter or following her on Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram.

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Becky