Doughnut Alphabet Puzzles

Alphabet puzzles shaped like doughnuts: students join two halves to match each capital letter with its lowercase letter, from A to Z.
Year groups
Nursery–Reception (Early Years), Year 1 (Key Stage 1)
Pages
9
File type
PDF
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Updated Feb 01, 2026

Subject
Holidays, Phonics, Holiday & Seasonal, Language Development, English
Topic
Alphabet Puzzles, Letter Recognition
Resource types
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Teach your Nursery and Year 1 students the letters of the alphabet with a wonderful doughnut themed activity with these letter puzzles. Designed to reinforce letter identification skills, these puzzles provide a fun and interactive way for students to practise recognising and matching capital and lowercase letters. As students piece together the two halves of each doughnut, they will develop their letter recognition abilities. These alphabet puzzles are a great educational tool to enhance early literacy and also make learning the alphabet an enjoyable experience for young learners.

What is Included:

This resource contains 26 two-piece alphabet puzzles for matching capital and lowercase letters for each letter of the alphabet.

The hands-on nature of these puzzles gives students a tactile way to practise matching uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet. Students can complete these puzzles independently or with a partner.

When to Use

  • Early Finishers - If students finish their work early, they can use these puzzles for extra practice.

  • Small Group Work - Teachers can use these puzzles to target small groups of students who need more practice.

  • Literacy Centre - Students can practise building words individually or with a partner in a literacy centre.

  • Morning Tub or Basket - Students can work independently or with a partner to complete the puzzles while waiting on classmates to arrive at class.

  • Task Boxes - These puzzles fit well in task boxes making literacy centres easy to set up and put away.

Skills Assessed:

  • Letter Recognition and Identification for Capital and Lowercase Letters

  • Matching Capital Letters with their Corresponding Lowercase Letters

  • Ability to place single letters in alphabetical order

These doughnut alphabet puzzles are a low prep option for teachers. They just need to be printed out and cut apart before being added to the desired activity location. The puzzles can be laminated for durability if desired.

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Core concepts

  • Letter recognition

  • Uppercase and lowercase letters

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