Looking for a fun and hands-on way to teach letters and their sounds? Then these printable alphabet puzzles for uppercase and lowercase are a fun activity!
My daughter {age 3.5} loves working puzzles and is still working on her letters and sounds with Learning the Alphabet. These free, printable alphabet puzzles have been a big hit for her. I love that they sneak in practice with letter names and letter sounds.
Download links can be found towards the END of this blog post.
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Printable Alphabet Puzzles
NSis {age 3.5} would sometimes walk by the computer while I was working on my Spelling Activities and Games ebook and ask, “Is that for me, mommy?” Every time I’d answer with no, she’d sigh with disappointment. So it was time to make something for her!
As soon as she saw these alphabet puzzles, she asked me to print them out and do them right away! I love it when my kids start off eager. It makes teaching much easier when the motivation is already there, doesn’t it?
To start her off, I printed off the letter A mat and pieces onto cardstock. You might have a child who can work the puzzle without the base letter mat, but it is a challenge. I cut out all the letter a pieces with images on them (all the vowels have short and long sounds included) and mixed them up.
As she picked up a piece, we identified the image together and I said, “Acorn starts with an a,” emphasizing the sound like this: “/a/-/a/-acorn.” While I was doing this, she put the piece in the puzzle.
If you have an older child who is ready for more of a challenge, place two alphabet puzzles and mats out at one time.
Ask the child to sort each picture by its sound onto the correct mat. Because the mats are self-checking, this makes for a wonderful independent activity!
Download the UPPERCASE set here
Download the lowercase set here
Enjoy!
~Becky
These are awesome! I have been looking for printable alphabet puzzles. I don’t usually comment but I love all your resources. Thank You!
Thanks! So glad you stopped by to comment.
I love all the great things that you have created and have used all of the ones that I printed. A while back I downloaded your binder where you started with one letter and it had three letter words where the child would sound out. I used it and used it andI lent it to someone and can’t find my thumb drive that I had it on. Is it still available? Again, thank you for all you do for parents and teachers.
Wonderful resource. A bit young for the pupils I work with, but excellent all the same.
Thank you for creating this. I love it. It has been very helpful.
ooo these are so awesome !! i actually printed them for my little 5y old but my 9y old also played with it 🙂 he called them super cool. will you be making some number puzzles as well? Have a great day!
I will put the number puzzles on my list of things to create. 🙂
This is just brilliant . Thank you for sharing .
You’re very welcome.
These are fantastic! Love all your activities, Reading Mama!
Thank you! 🙂
FUNtastic!! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Thank you some of these will be very good for Speech-Language Therapy teaching initial sounds. i always like to teach them other things along the way and this reinforces the visual as well as the sound. I would love you to add ch,sh,th !
Margaret Hunt
New Zealand
I’ll see what I can do… 😉
Thank you so much! These are great! Your site has been really resourceful for me, first year teacher, and has saved me lots of time and money. So thank you again.
You’re welcome! So glad to hear you’ve been able to use it! 🙂
Perfection! Thank you for sharing this amazing resourse I will use it in August for my students but first I will use it with my four year old cousin and a game that is fun and reinforces letter recognition and inital sound differentiation 🙂 Thank you
You are very welcome! Thanks for stopping by to comment. 🙂
These are great! Any chance you have french copies?
No. Sorry.
Just finding these now, but they are wonderful. Thanks
Thank you for sharing all this increible work!!! I am from Colombia and I am a Pre-k and K Teacher. Everything that you have done helps me A LOT!!! Muchas gracias!!! I wish you had this puzzle in spanish!!! 😉 Take care!!!
You are welcome! Not sure if I’ll be making Spanish ones, but I’m glad you can use what I have. 🙂
These are amazing…thank you so much!
You’re welcome! 🙂
Thank you so much. I love the idea!!!
You’re welcome! 🙂
Thanks for the alphabet puzzle! Just what I had in mind to put together.
You’re welcome! 🙂
thank you so much for sharing free pintables. these are amazing
thank you so much for sharing free printable. these are amazing. so happy to meet you
You’re welcome!
I love these~
I was looking for like these.
Thank you so much!!
Wow!Love these. I’ve been looking for alphabet puzzles that I could use for kids. God bless you real good for these.
I love the resources that you offer. My granddaughter is 3.5 years old and these resources are very helpful. She has learned to count to 50 and recognize her alphabets out of order.
Thanks
Betty
amazing printables! thanks!
Thanks for these free and marvelous printable puzzles! I also want to share with others free printables for kids: puzzles, flashcards, etc. I’ve found on this website https://kids-printables.com/product-category/free-printable-worksheets/
I hope it can be useful for parents like me))
Just too good… It surely will help out. Thanks
I love these alphabet puzzles! They’re so much fun to play with and they’re great for practicing letter recognition.