Alphabet Light Table Play & Fine Motor Activity

Dollar store ice cube trays look fantastic on the light table (see here). 

Yet, they're even more fun when you turn them upside down. 

These particular ice cube trays are like buttons just waiting to be pressed (so you could pop out the ice cubes that I will never make - haha). So I decided to turn them into a keyboard of sorts to practice matching uppercase and lowercase letters, spelling words, and searching for particular letters. It may be a simple light table activity for kids, but it also encourages literacy and fine motor skills. And seriously, what kid doesn't like pressing buttons?!

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Fine Motor Alphabet Activity for the Light Table

For this activity, I used three translucent ice cube trays from the dollar store and some dry erase markers. I wrote uppercase and lowercase letters on the ice cube trays with the dry erase markers. I can easily wash the marker off so that I can reuse the trays for another activity in the future.

I just love how these ice cube trays look on the light table, but they're even more irresistible when they are alphabet buttons waiting to be pushed. We played a few different games with these:

• I would call a letter and then K would press the letter that I called.
• K would match uppercase and lowercase letters by pressing the letters at the same time.
• I would help K spell words by dictating the letters while he pressed them.

He had a lot of fun with it!

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