Ever since we tried playing musical letters several months back, my children have been asking to play it again, but I kept forgetting to make the letters up for them, until now, so here is our fun afternoon of dancing, music and learning.
Musical letters is such a fantastic game. It provides exercise, dance, music, fun and learning all in one!
It is basically musical islands or musical bumps, only with letters.
- First you need to write out letters on pieces of paper or card.
- Place the letters around the floor for the children to dance around.
- The music plays. When the music stops, shout out a letter and the children have to find and sit on that letter. What better way could there be to learn letters?
- It is best to use easy letters first, then as the children learn, you can introduce more difficult letters like B and D.
- You could also use this game for numbers instead of letters, or maybe sight words once they’ve got their letters sussed.
I highly recommend this game, my girls love playing it and are really starting to remember their letters now.
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Sarah
That’s a great idea, I will give it a go, my eldest starts school in sept and can already recognise many letters (and a few words) so this will be fun learning for her without trying.
BakedPotato Mummy
What a great idea! A fun way of learning letter and numbers. You could even adapt it to colours for even younger kids!
TwoBoysOneMum
aww that looks so fun 🙂 can’t wait til the boys are big enough to play proper games! peekaboo is getting old 😉
Helen Porter
what a fabulous idea my boys are always running round in circles will be great to give them something to run too I will definitely be trying this
Amanda
Great idea! I so this with animals (find an animal when the music stops and act like it…I guess) and colours!
Diane
Great idea! It would be difficult with the whole class, but I think I can do it in small groups and differentiate the game. Thanks
Paula
So thankful I saw this on a cousin’s Facebook timeline. I am doing this in no time. Classes for school year 2014-2015 here in the Pilippines start June. Starting this tomorrow is just right in time! 🙂
Mummy to boyz
Thank you for sharing this – I think this is what my boys needs to get him interested in learning his letters!
Tracey @ MummyShire
What a brilliant idea, so simple but easy and we all know that children learn thru play. You could do this with numbers too, such a great idea. Thnx for sharing