Dot Marker Alphabet Cards

These dot marker alphabet cards are great for working on fine motor skills as well as color matching and learning the alphabet!

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We first tried out our dot markers with our dinosaur play dough mats – which handily work well for the markers too! The markers are great for working on fine motor skills when the aim is to place the dot in a specific place. So I designed these alphabet cards for some more practice!

I used bright bold images for each letter (agonising over “Q” and “X” as usual – why is there so little choice of familiar words?!?!) and I coloured each letter so that it corresponded to the colours of our dot markers: purple, blue, green, yellow, red and orange. This introduced a colour matching angle to the activity too.

I set out the first three cards for F with the correct colors of dot markers. He immediately got started, getting the dot markers on the white circles pretty accurately. After he’d done A, B and C, I just kept supplying him with the cards! He used both hands to make the dots, and although he had an awkward-looking grasp of the marker at times, he had good control.

He went all the way through to R before pausing to wind me up by putting the orange lid on the purple marker. He *knows* I can’t deal with that! 🙂 He then continued all the way through to Z. I was really impressed with his concentration and he was so pleased with himself when he’d finished. When they had dried I taped them up onto our kitchen cupboard doors – they only just fit!

These cards have stayed up for several weeks now, sparking many alphabet recitals and conversations about the pictures!

Things to try with your alphabet cards:

Laminate the cards for repeated use
Use the cards as play dough mats
Print out only the cards needed to spell your child’s name or any other significant word

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These beautiful dot marker alphabet cards are available in my Craftulate!!!