Simple Crafts and Activities for Early Literacy Skills

Maximize love and manage stress

• Calm down jars
• Cuddle and read
• The gratitude game
• Routine is good
• Make a squishy stress ball

Talk, sing and point

• Conversation
• Old McDonald
• Primary language
• Puppets
• Recipe sequence
• Rhyming words

Count, group and compare

• Egg carton count
• Food sort
• Mix a recipe
• Pompom sort
• Shapes
• Sock sort
• Tower building
• Walk
• Whose pile is biggest?
• Writing in rice

Explore through movement and play

• Dance party
• Kitchen band
• Letter scavenger hunt
• Movement dice
• Obstacle course

Read and discuss

• Alphabet books
• Books of all shapes and sizes
• Discover people and places
• Look for shapes
• Take a color walk