Our Touch & Feel Shapes and Touch & Feel Counting Cards were HUGE hits with my kids and with followers, so I made touch and feel letter cards too! (Newest addition: Touch & Feel Colour Cards)
These letter cards are perfect to teach letter formation if you add little arrows(to show direction) and/or use it with Rhymes like Teaching Mama did. We use it for spelling words as well.
To make these cards you only need the following materials:
- Cut Cardboard pieces 150mm x 100mm
- Pipecleaners
- Marker
- Glue gun or strong glue
- A ruler
- Wire cutter
- The FREE letter templates(download instructions below)
First, make lines on your cards. Measure 5cm between the lines. You can use any colour marker, I used a red chalk marker to get these bold lines.
Now use the FREE(See instructions at the end of this post to get access to our Freebies page with this free printable and many more!)
Printable Letter Templates and bend the pipecleaners accordingly. I did not add a ‘q’ and ‘p’ because you can use the ‘b’ and ‘d’ upside down. (Reason: I wanted all the letters to fit onto two pages.) Here is a preview:
Make sure your pipecleaner letters does not have sharp points and are bent proportionally.
Glue down the pipecleaner letters, making sure to use the correct line. We call these writing lines head, tummy and tail lines(the cat-method). What do you call it?
Oh, obviously you can use a variety of colour pipecleaners, or perhaps blue for consonants and red for vowels. (I only used white because I bought in bulk the other day.)
All set! Now the fun, multi sensory learning can begin! Trace the letters with a finger, close eyes and trace again. Play a guessing game by not looking at the cards and guess which is which by only touching it.
Build words with the cards and learn letters hands-on!
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Tere says
Thank you so much! We are building a sutdy room for our 4 year old and we are eager to try this! He’s learning to read and write, and we are trying to focus some activities around those, but specially around building words. I think that this touch feel letters are perfect because of that. Our kid will have the freedom to for words and his own name putting them next to the other.
Kayla F. says
I can see this was inspired by Montessori as I know she used sandpaper on hers. A pipe cleaner would be way more user friendly I imagine! Thanks for the twist!
Jannifer Heiner says
I love that making these are simple and that I have everything already. Thank you
maya says
love your post!
thank you!
Nadia van Zyl says
I have not. I will see if I can add it soon;)
Stephanie says
DO you have a letter template for capital letters? I noticed the template is for lowercase letters.
Noursine says
Simple and wonderful idea thank you ❤
Kornelia says
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful idea!
Nadia van Zyl says
At 3 years old he is not expected to know his alphabet and numbers. You can however start by making learning about it fun. These touch and feel cards(there are numbers and colours too, just search for it using the search button upper right hand corner) are perfect and then also use playtime to slowly introduce numbers and letters. Rhymes are a great way to start, like 5 little monkeys etc.
Elizabeth says
Need guidance with simple material to assist in helping with alphabets and numbers. My grandson is not talking as he should for 3 years old. Limited time with him and unusual hours.
Nadia van Zyl says
I’m sure it could, but I would rather suggest teaching Braille from the start because that will be the long term method the child will use. You can use a glue gun to make Braille cards.
Jess says
Hiya Nadia,
I was wondering if these cards would help the blind people? I’m teaching a preschooler to read who has lost his sight at birth.
Thanks!
India says
Sweet, thank you much!
Nadia van Zyl says
Apologies, it’s mm
India says
It says to cut the cardboard 150×100… what unit does that mean? Cm? Mm? ?
Jennifer says
I love this idea. I only wish I’d found it at the beginning of the year. Oh well, I guess I’m getting a head start for next year.