Back to School Alphabet Activities
The first weeks of school are very busy! While you’re learning names, setting routines, and managing All. The. Transitions.— your students are getting used to the idea of “school” and learning the ABCs.
Make teaching letters easier and way more fun at the start of the year with 9 hands-on Back to School Alphabet Activities that engage students and support essential skills.
You’ve got a wide range of learners—some who already know their letters and others who don’t yet recognize their name yet.
What you really need is a bundle of alphabet activities that’s:
✅ Easy to differentiate
✅ Flexible for small groups, morning tubs, or centers
✅ Fun and engaging for kids
✅ Skill-packed for letter recognition, matching, and tracing
Back to School Alphabet Activities:
These school-themed alphabet activities are a fun way for your preschoolers and kindergartners to work on recognizing letters by their shapes and names.
Back to School Letter Recognition Activity
Make learning lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and letter sounds fun with this Back to School Letter Recognition and Beginning Sounds Activity!
As your students “feed” the crayon box the crayons, they will review and practice naming letters and sounds.
Back to School Alphabet Sensory Bins
Practice letter identification and sounds with these low-prep Back to School Alphabet Sensory Bins!
It’s a hands-on way for your students to learn or review uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and beginning sounds.
Back to School Letter Find Activity
Get your students excited about recognizing uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and beginning sounds with this fun, low-prep Back to School Find the Letter Activity!
In this alphabet hunt, they will pick a card, identify the letter or letter sound, and find the letter on the mat or worksheet.
Back to School Cut & Paste Mystery Pictures
Make matching uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and beginning sounds fun with these Back to School Cut and Paste Mystery Picture Puzzles!
As your students match the alphabet puzzle pieces to the letters or pictures on the worksheets, they will reveal a school-themed mystery picture.
Back to School Letter Maze Worksheets
Get ready for the start of the new year with these printable Back to School Letter Maze Worksheets!
Your preschoolers and kindergartners will love going through the mazes from start to finish, identifying capital and lowercase letters along the way.
Back to School Color By Letter Worksheets
Challenge & excite your students with these engaging Back to School Color by Letter Worksheets!
They will practice identifying uppercase and lowercase letters and develop their fine motor skills as they use the code to color the spaces on these coloring pages.
Back to School Letter Search Activity
Challenge your students to find the letters in this low-prep Back to School Letter ID & Search Activity!
They will practice recognizing uppercase & lowercase letters, identifying letter sounds, and much more.
Back to School Find the Letter Worksheets
Make learning letter recognition engaging at the beginning of the year with these no-prep Back to School Find the Letter Worksheets!
This letter search activity is a hands-on way for your students to practice identifying, finding, and coloring uppercase and lowercase letters.
Learning uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and beginning sounds is so much fun with this Back to School Letter Game!
Your students will build alphabet and first sound fluency as they try to find the hidden pencil card under the paper cards in these engaging games.
Back to School Letter Formation Cards
Practice uppercase and lowercase letter writing with these low-prep Back to School Letter Formation Cards.
Your students will practice their handwriting as they work on forming and tracing the letters of the alphabet.
Use these Back to School Alphabet Activities at the start of the new year to help your students learn and review uppercase and lowercase letters. Save over 30% when you buy the bundle!
More Back to School Resources:
If you are looking for more resources for the beginning of the school year, you may also like these fun activities.
Back to School Fine Motor Activities
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Use these alphabet activities to help your preschoolers and kindergarteners practice letter recognition, matching letters, letter formation, writing letters, and so much more!
These hands-on, low-prep letter identification resources can be used for literacy centers, morning tubs, small groups, fine motor journals, intervention, or as enrichment activities for early finishers.
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