Alphabet Activities Inspired by Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

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Colorful plastic letters hit the floor with a soft clatter.  “Again! Again!”  It was our second time to act out our latest favorite book with a simple alphabet activity for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and the kids were begging to read it again.

alphabet activities to go with the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

 

The kids loved the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom  from the moment I first read the book to them.  I decided then that it was a great book to inspire some fun alphabet activities.

 

Alphabet Activities for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

 

For our first activity we started off by cleaning all the artwork from the front of the refrigerator.  After all, we were going to need a big space to reenact the story.  Then we put together our own paper coconut tree, taping each piece to the fridge.

As I read each page of the story, they had fun hunting through our magnetic letters to find the right ones and having them “climb up” the coconut tree.

 

book activity for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

 

Then came their favorite part — all the letters came tumbling off the tree (with a little preschooler help).

 

activity for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

 

They continued having fun with the magnetic letters long after we finished reading the story.

 

Then I pulled out our second alphabet activity:   lower case and upper case letter cards.

 

learning lower case letters with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

 

They practice matching up the lower and upper case letters together.  It was a great way to get them to recognize some of the lower letters they aren’t as familiar with.

 

It wasn’t long before they returned to the plastic letters and the coconut tree on the refrigerator.  We had lots of fun with our alphabet activities for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and look forward to more book activities in the future.

 

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Comments

    • Some of their favorite books, which look like that, I am pretty sure I will have to keep to share with the grandkids one day…

    • LOL – looking at our tree you can tell I had some preschool help. 🙂 It’s actually still on the fridge and being played with.

  4. Wow I love this! My daughter absolutely adores that book, we read it all the time. She’s only 2 but she could definitely do this activity! FUN!

    • Oh, yes, I’m sure she would love putting the letters on the friege and knocking them off at the right spot! My son wanted to do it again and again. (He’s 3)

  9. That looks like a lot of fun for kids to learn their letters! My boys love magnets…

    I’m going to have to check out that book!

    • Magnets are always a hit! (The biggest problem was a few getting kicked under the fridge, but then they got to fish them out with a long stick…. ) Definitely rec. checking out the book!

  10. Love the idea of the large tree on the fridge! This book is the one we are going to be doing activities with this coming week so it’s great to hear that your kids enjoyed it.

  11. I’ll have to check that book out! Do you have any suggestions for good books for 11 month olds? My baby loves books, but has a very short attention span. I’m impressed by your creativity!

    • My son’s favorite author when he was that age was Sandra Boynton. He loved all her books! Definitely would suggest checking them out!

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