Alphabet Snow Hunt

Materials

1. White packaging peanuts
2. Sensory table
3. Avalanche by Michael J. Rosen
4. Plastic alphabet letters
5. Plastic shovel
6. Plastic buckets

Instructions

1. Prepare the sensory table in advance by disinfecting it. After it dries, fill it with packaging peanuts.
2. Read the story Avalanche to prepare the children to hunt for missing letters in the "snow."
3. Empty uppercase and lowercase letters in the sensory table. Cover the letters with packaging peanuts.
4. Encourage the children to shovel out specific letters, such as all the letters of the alphabet, letters of their name, or letters that come before and after certain letters.