Beginning Letter Snacks

• If you teach a class, this activity is optimal. Pass around a list of each letter in the alphabet and have each student sign up for one letter. If there are too many students in the class, some can team up. If there are too few students, you can fill in the gaps. Each student brings a snack to class that begins with their assigned letter. Have an alphabet party with the snacks brought, arranging them in the order of the alphabet, and let each student introduce the snack he brought to class.

Alphabet Baking

• This activity is best for small groups, or for a single child. Buy or make dough for cookies, biscuits or pretzels. Cover a free counter top or the kitchen table with flour and instruct your group to roll out each letter of the alphabet and set the letters on a greased baking pan. When the letters bake, let them cool and scramble them up. Have your group arrange them in alphabetical order, then get them to spell some simple words. When your activity is finished, children can eat the letters they made.

Soup and Cereal

• If you want a simple alphabet snack for children to play with and eat, alphabet soup or cereal may be what you're looking for. Alphabet soup and cereal can be bought in grocery stores, and alphabet soup can be made with a vegetable broth and alphabet pasta. Give your child a bowl of alphabet soup or cereal and have her spell out simple words with the letters. She can eat her words until she finishes her snack.

Themed Alphabet Snacks

• Linking your alphabet snack with a lesson plan or theme can help students learn letters and basic spelling while learning about the world. For example; if the theme is healthy diet, all alphabet snacks can be explained in terms of the food pyramid. Other themes can be alphabet snacks that are all fruits or vegetables, or you can even have students bring in alphabet snacks based on history, culture or a time period they are learning about.