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Water Gun Letter Squirt {101 Ways to Teach the Alphabet}

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Summer is here so it’s time to take the learning outside into the warm sunshine. In this installment of my 101 Ways to Teach the Alphabet Series I am sharing an activity that combines a water gun with some letter learning. I call this activity water gun letter squirt.

Grab a water gun and some sidewalk chalk, then head outside to enjoy some letter learning fun. What a fun alphabet activity for summer! || Gift of Curiosity

We’ve owned our Super Soakers for about a year now. And with the weather heating up, I thought it was time to dig them out of the garage again for a letter learning exercise.

So I wrote some letters on our backyard fence using sidewalk chalk.

Grab a water gun and some sidewalk chalk, then head outside to enjoy some letter learning fun. What a fun alphabet activity for summer! || Gift of Curiosity

Then I armed with my son with a Super Soaker.

Grab a water gun and some sidewalk chalk, then head outside to enjoy some letter learning fun. What a fun alphabet activity for summer! || Gift of Curiosity

I named a letter, and then let him take aim at it with his water gun.

Grab a water gun and some sidewalk chalk, then head outside to enjoy some letter learning fun. What a fun alphabet activity for summer! || Gift of Curiosity

Mission accomplished!

Grab a water gun and some sidewalk chalk, then head outside to enjoy some letter learning fun. What a fun alphabet activity for summer! || Gift of Curiosity

Then repeat until your child has practiced all the letters on your list.

101 Ways to Teach the Alphabet: Hands-on, multi-sensory activities for teaching the alphabet to children ages 2 to 7.

More ways to teach to the alphabet

More alphabet posts from Gift of Curiosity:

  • Road Letters
  • Letter hunt sensory bin
  • Erasing letters with a Q-tip
  • Making letters with straws and play dough
  • Spaghetti letters
  • Letter puzzles
  • Making “alphabet soup”
  • Smash the puffy letters
  • Mini letter hunt with a magnifying glass
  • Kinetic sand letters
  • Letter hopscotch
  • Letter hop
  • Yarn wrapped letters
  • Letter tic-tac-toe

You can find more ways to teach the alphabet on my Literacy Activities for Kids page and my Letter Learning Pinterest board.

Filed Under: Alphabet, Preschool, Kindergarten

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  1. Po Tim

    July 1, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    I can totally see that would be super fun for my kids. Thanks for sharing.
    I tink we can also put sight words, Words Family… and since I don’t have any yard living in HK now. I may try to get some makers for using in the bathtub. Then, I can write Chinese words or English ABC for my girls to play with a mini-size of a water gun.

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