Alphabet Letter Collage Material Ideas

To assist children in learning letter identification and reinforcing letter-sound relationships, alphabet letter collages helps children to learn and recognise letters in a fun way. It also provides a great sensory, tactile, and fine motor experience. The following article lists collage materials that can be used for each individual letter. 

Alphabet collage can also help children work on:

• letter recognition
• writing letters/ proper letter formation
• reinforcing letter-sound associations

Materials List For Letters Collage

Here are some ideas about the Alphabet Collage of each letter:

A

• apple stickers
• animal sticker
• ant stickers
• avocado coloured painting
• plastic ant pasting

B

• balloon painting
• pasting stickers of butterflies, bees, or bug
• pasting of dried beans.
• pasting of buttons or beads
• blue colour finger painting.

C

• pasting car stickers
• pasting scarps of crayons
• pasting small cars
• pasting of candies
• imprinted coins

D

• making dots with the crayons
• pasting dinosaur sticker
• imprinting dice
• paste dog stickers
• create doughnut holes with crayons on the letter

E

• smashed eggshells and paste the same on the letter
• paste googly eyes
• paste Elmo stickers
• paste the easter eggs stickers
• eraser printing

F

• feathers pasting
• dried or silk flowers pasting
• fingerprints
• fish stickers pasting
• flag stickers pasting

G

• pasting green glitter paper strips.
• use green colour for thumbprint
• can paste grasses
• stickers of grapes can be pasted
• small plastic grapes pasting

H

• smiley face sticker (happy)
• pasting of horse stickers
• making holes with a punching machine
• doll’s hair pasting
• heart stamps

I

• insect stickers
• ice-cream stickers
• pasting plastic ice cubes
• pasting broken ice cream cones
• cotton dabbing printing with ink.

J

• pasting small jingle bells
• pasting old denim jeans scrab
• pasting pieces of jump ropes
• pasting of junk food wrappers
• jewellery pasting

K

• making prints with keys
• pasting stickers of kangaroos
• pasting kite pictures
• pasting kitten pictures
• making a print with lips (kissing)

L

• pasting small pieces of Legos
• pasting leaves (real/plastic)
• lemon print
• pasting lentils
• pasting ladybug stickers

M

• paste dried macaroni
• paste plastic mice
• marshmallows pasting
• marble painting
• mud painting

N

• strips of newspaper pasting
• Noodles pasting
• nest materials pasting
• number stickers pasting
• nose pictures pasting

O

• orange paper tearing and pasting
• small Oreo pasting
• orange colour earbud painting
• ocean animal sticker painting
• print impression with a slice of Okra

P

• Simple painting with colour of preferences
• Pompom pasting
• Popcorn pasting
• Pasting pieces of puzzles
• Paste photos of pets

Q

• squares of patterned fabric to look like a quilt
• Q-tips
• quarters
• question mark stamps
• Picture of queen pasting

R

• red paper or collage elements pasting
• rainbow stickers pasting
• rose petals pasting
• rough textures (sandpaper) pasting
• Rice pasting

S

• snowflake stickers pasting
• white glitter (snow) pasting
• smiley face stickers
• spaghetti noodles pasting
• sand pasting

T

• toilet paper pasting
• strips of tape pasting
• triangles making
• train stickers/stamps
• toothpicks, tissue paper pasting

U

• letter u stamps/stickers
• drink umbrellas,
• arrow stickers or stamps (up)
• picture of unicorn pasting
• picture of uniforms pasting

V

• violet paper or collage elements
• artificial violet flowers
• vegetable stickers
• vegetable pictures from a seed catalogue
• print with vegetables

W

• watermelon stickers
• wheel prints
• plastic worms pasting
• Strips of washi tape pasting
• Watercolour paint

X

• letter X stamp
• x-ray strips
• number six stamps
• make a small x-mark with dots
• Picture of xylophone pasting

Y

• Yarn pasting
• yellow paper tearing and pasting
• Yellow painting
• Pasting of Yak pictures
• Picture of Yacht pasting

Z

• zig zags (cut small strips of zigzag paper using pinking scissors)
• zoo animals, zippers
• attach a zipper to a block to make a zipper print or stamp
• small zoo animals or zoo animal stickers
• zebra stamps or stickers

Further Reading 

Alphabet Printables - A variety of different alphabet printables that will help children in recognising and learning numbers. 

Fingerprint Alphabet Art - Fingerprint Alphabet Art is a simple activity for children to create objects using their fingerprints starting with each letter of the alphabet. There is an example of fingerprint art for each letter that children can follow.

Alphabet Colouring Pages -Alphabet Colouring Pages provide each letter of the alphabet along with four images that match each letter. This is a great way for children to recognise and learn the letters of the alphabet.

Letter Of My Name - These letters enable children to begin to recognise the first letter of their name. These are great for preschool children who are learning to write their names and for letter recognition.

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Alphabet Collage Activities, Early Learning Ideas