Looking for some fun, engaging and hands-on ways to teach ABC’s to your little learners? I have you covered! Preschool and Kindergarten are the most important years to build literacy and math concept in kids. One of the most important things is to build fine motor skills and sensory skills along with helping kids identify letters and sounds is providing plenty of repetitive fun alphabet activities on a regular basis. Along with letter and number practice, these fun STEM manipulatives centers also work on their fine motor skills and sensory skills. These fun day-to-day alphabet centers are just perfect for early learners to practice their uppercase and lowercase letters and number while playing.

Super Saver Mega Manipulatives Bundle

STEM Manipulatives help preschoolers and kindergartners utilize many skill sets. They use fine and gross motor skills to make the letters, shapes and numbers with the help of various manipulatives. They also are able to take decisions on which which matching piece to use and which to place. These also are used by special education teachers to engage the kids and help them concentrate.

Here are 15 hands-on fine motor and sensory based centers using STEM manipulatives which would be loved by your students:

Pop It Fidget Toy Activities

Pop It Fidget Toy Activities are all the rage right now! These quiet, entertaining fidgets are the perfect tool to add to your next classroom small group or center STEM activity! Pop Its can be used for Hands-On Math and Literacy Centers by adding uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or numbers to them.

To begin, students will need a Pop It labeled with letters on one side and numbers on the other. Students will use a variety of small manipulatives to pop and cover specific letters and numbers. Students can also make letters, numbers, or shapes using manipulatives to pop and cover the correct design. Let your mind go wild with all the different activities you can use these Pop Its for: simple addition and subtraction, recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters, making patterns, graphing, making shapes, and so much more!

Using Pop Its as a learning tool is becoming more and more common.
Students are engaged in hands-on learning activities that will keep them
begging for more! Our Pop It Math and Literacy Center Bundle provides all the tools you need for
students to begin learning immediately!

Letter, Number & Shape Road Mats

Letter and Number Road Mats are designed to engage students in correct letter formation, letter sounds, letter and number names, and more! Students can use mobile manipulatives like cars, trains, tractors, or anything else that “moves” for hands-on letter and number formation practice.

Students will need a mobile manipulative, letter, number, or shape road mat, a pencil, and a set of crayons or colored pencils. These Hands-On Letters and Numbers Road activities are the perfect addition to independent center activities or small group practice. While students are forming letters in small groups, remind them to practice the sounds each letter makes. For example, when students practice the letter ‘R’, they will say “Rrrrrrrr” while forming the letter.

There are basic road mat pages that contain
just the letter, number, or shape as well as road map pages that include a
variety of activities to practice identifying and engaging in the letter,
number, or shape featured on that page. Your students are sure to love our Road Maps Bundle featuring letters, numbers, and shapes.

Popsicle Stick Learning Mats

Popsicle Stick Learning Mats make learning letters, numbers, and shapes more fun! These adorable letter mats provide students with visual discrimination and perception skill-building activities.

Learning with popsicle mats is a great resource for your early elementary and preschool students. Simply print the learning mats (I suggest laminating the pages for durability) and provide students with popsicle sticks to start forming letters, numbers, and shapes.

Your students will love learning and engaging in letter recognition, number formation, visual discrimination, and shape recognition activities with our Popsicle Stick Bundle. Our bundle includes Build It, Trace It, Find It activities on each of the mats that are sure to excite young learners!