Materials
Small cookie sheet or pizza pan
Magnetic letters
A large sheet of construction paper
Felt-tip marker
Directions
Assemble a dozen or so magnetic letters (more for older children) and stick them to the cookie sheet. Use the felt-tip marker to make several, but not all of the letters on the cookie sheet. Try to make your letters resemble their magnetic letter counterpart as closely as possible! Invite your toddler to look at a letter you point out on the sheet. Describe the letter to your child—”It looks like a circle with a monkey tail on the side.” Let your child look at the letters on the cookie sheet, picking up the matching letter and laying it on top of the letter on the paper. Your child does not have to know the letters of the alphabet to do this activity. This is purely a matching game. But it’s also a good introduction to beginning letter recognition!