ABC Stew! Letter, Sound, Name & Sight Word Cooking Games | Alphabet Recognition Activities for PreK, Kindergarten & 1st Grade

Let’s cook up some letters! 🍲

ABC Stew! is a hands-on letter and word game that my kinders ask for over and over (and over) again. The magic is that every version plays the same way — pick a card, say it, find it on the tray, stir it into the pot. So once you teach the routine, you’re done. Just swap out the cards and the SAME game carries you through letters, sounds, names and sight words all year long.

No fancy prepping, no complicated rules, nothing to explain 47 times. 😅 Print it, laminate it, stick each set in a labeled bag, and it literally runs itself during centers.

**What’s inside (42 print-ready pages, 8.5 x 11 in):**
– Teacher tips, organization ideas + bag labels (because we all need the storage thing sorted)
– Differentiation ideas — uppercase only, lowercase only, or mix it up
– Alphabet & sound chart
– Uppercase and lowercase letter trays
– 2 song cards for circle time
– Letter stew cards (uppercase AND lowercase)
– Sound stew cards — 2 picture sets: real foods AND easy-to-identify picture clues with a little star on the corner so the sets never get mixed up
– Recipe cards + sorting stews (uppercase/lowercase, vowels/consonants)
– Name stew — blank name cards + “my initials” cards
– 5 sight word sets: Fry Lists 1, 2, 3, Pre-Primer and Primer + blank word cards for your own list
– 7 no-prep practice pages

**Perfect for:** PreK, Kinder and 1st grade — small groups, literacy centers, morning tubs, RTI, intervention, or that tricky transition time before lunch. 😉

The best part? Watching a kid finally nail a letter sound because they “cooked” it twenty times this week. That’s the good stuff. 🎉

Happy cooking!