Alphabet matching board

Over the past few months both kids have really been working on the alphabet, at 2, my youngest has been trying to master the ABC song, which is absolutely adorable. My oldest can pretty much always identify the uppercase letters so we’ve been focusing more on lower case and let me tell you, I’ve never realized how confusing it must be that each sound actually has two corresponding letters. So to help him recognize both upper and lower case I created this alphabet matching game out of only three supplies, a cardboard box, some popsicle sticks and a marker!

The first thing you’ll need here is a cardboard box, which if your house is anything like our house it shouldn’t be hard to fine one! I wrote all the upper and lowercase letters on the box and then made a little slit above each one. Lastly, I grabbed 26 large popsicle sticks and wrote the upper case letter on one side, flipped it upside down, and wrote the lower case on the other side. That’s literally it! Once I handed the box and sticks to the kids they both LOVED it, I’m telling you, they played with it for about an hour helping each other by searching for the letters and matching them onto the board.

If you’re in need of a (very) easy DIY craft then definitely bookmark this blog! The time it takes to throw this together is nothing compared to the amount of time your kids will enjoy playing with it!