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Sensory Alphabet Cards with Pipe Cleaners

Learning to Read· Writing

15 Nov

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Just like our other sensory alphabet cards, your child can make this set alongside you. In this activity, we are making some pipe cleaner letter cards. These are easy to make and your child will love to make them getting the pipe cleaners all bent out of shape! So here goes How to Make your Own Pipe Cleaner Letters for supporting your child as they learn to read and write.

Step 1 of creating pipecleaner sensory letter cards bending the pipecleaner in shape

Page Contents

  • Materials Needed for Pipe Cleaner Alphabet for Kids to Make
  • How to make your Pipe Cleaner Letters
  • Using and Extending your Sensory Pipe Cleaner Letters to Make with your Child
    • Why not try one of our other sensory cards too like these Pom Pom Sensory Alphabet Card set?

Materials Needed for Pipe Cleaner Alphabet for Kids to Make

Letter Template Cards -> Download here

Printer

Pipe Cleaners (any choice of colour or colours)

Pom poms (to dot your i, j)

Glue gun

How to make your Pipe Cleaner Letters

  1. Print out the letter template cards onto the strongest card that your printer will handle.
  2. Starting in the place you would start a letter when writing, bend your pipe cleaner over the letter template. See our video for when lines in a letter overlap.
  3. Carefully, use the glue gun (always under adult supervision) to glue the letter joints together.
  4. Continue to use the glue gun to glue the pipe cleaners securely to the letter templates.
  5. Leave aside to dry.

Finished pipecleaner letter sensory cards

Using and Extending your Sensory Pipe Cleaner Letters to Make with your Child

You may want to add a dot and arrows around the letter to show the direction that a pen would move to form the letters. Although that isn’t essential, as you could just use the letters to make a nice visual representation of the letters that they are learning each week in their phonics programme.

As you work with the letters, don’t forget to use both the letter name (as you would sing the alphabet or spell a word out to an adult) and the letter sound that they will be using as they will be doing learning to read.

You could finish it off by getting them to ‘air write’ the letter, use their finger to draw it in the ground, draw it in sand, paint it, write the letter on paper or a whiteboard copying – the way that they traced the letter on the sensory letter card.

Why not try one of our other sensory cards too like these Pom Pom Sensory Alphabet Card set?

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