I love being able to repurpose things that would otherwise end up in the trash. And if you have children in your house, chances are the two items needed for this activity are plentiful: bottle caps (from milk and other drinks) and a baby wipes container! I shared this bottle cap sorting activity a few years ago and recently found a stash of bottle caps leftover as I was cleaning out a closet. I decided to make this Feed the Alphabet Monster activity to help Little Brother practice identifying lowercase letters.
The title of the post was inspired by Toddler Approved’s Feed the LEGO Monsters post. :)
Here’s what you’ll need: a plastic baby wipes container, bottle caps, and 1″ stickers.
These 1″ labels are perfect for the tops of bottle caps! Just peel and stick! 
1. Write letters (either capital or lowercase) on the stickers. 
2. Have your child place “feed” the caps to the monster one at a time while saying each letter. 
I love that this activity can be easily packaged and stored in the wipes container! 
JP says
July 18, 2014 at 9:25 pmI love this! You can even do sight words for the more advanced child,
Jenae says
July 18, 2014 at 10:05 pmGreat idea!
Christina Martinez says
July 21, 2014 at 2:11 amThis is such a cute idea. I would like to use this idea in my art class at a preschool I teach. I could use it for color recognition with the little ones!
Jenae says
July 21, 2014 at 1:46 pmAnother great idea!
Chris Kunze says
July 24, 2014 at 12:45 pmSuper cute idea! My 16yo is making it for a 4H project Child & Development area, with a few changes.
She needs to figure out a secure way to attach the eyes–the judges would definitely flag that has a choking hazard.
She’s using the metal lids from juice cans and 2″ labels to do uppercase letters on one side and lower case on the other. The kids don’t fit through the hole (of course) so she’s going to enlarge the opening.
She’s got duct tape and adhesive foam to decorate the entire wipes container. If she’s proud of her final project, I’ll try to share a picture!
Teresa says
July 24, 2015 at 6:38 pmUse clear contact paper for eyes
Iva says
July 28, 2014 at 12:47 pmI love your site and ideas. I have a similar site that helps mommies as well under Precious Years Blogger @ website listed
K says
August 6, 2014 at 11:27 pmFun! And we go through SO much milk in our house, it’ll be easy to get a hold of enough caps.
For kids that aren’t necessarily that advanced yet, you could play this game I came up with a couple weeks ago, also using a wipes container and letters: http://mypinnedlife.blogspot.com/2014/07/repurposed-wipes-container-turned.html
Grace Houle says
October 4, 2014 at 9:18 pmlove, love , love, can’t wait to try this!
Marie says
November 25, 2014 at 3:58 amWhat a good idea!
I”m going to create the same for my preschool class in France!
Thanks ;-)
Carrie Wible says
March 19, 2015 at 12:27 pmThis is genius!
Jenae says
March 19, 2015 at 8:57 pmThanks so much, Carrie! :)
Stéphanie says
June 4, 2015 at 4:46 amThis is a genius idea!! thanks for sharing. I love all of your ideas!
Jenae says
June 4, 2015 at 2:01 pmThank you, Stéphanie! I appreciate you taking the time to leave such an encouraging comment! :)
Jenny says
June 26, 2015 at 4:26 pmI love this! This is recycling to create
Nancy says
February 21, 2016 at 8:18 pmLove this idea, I can’t wait to start using this idea with my home childcare business!
Jenae says
February 22, 2016 at 9:14 amSo glad you like it! Thanks Nancy!
Jessica says
June 16, 2016 at 1:34 pmSo cute! I am going to do upper case letters on the other side of the cap! that way they can practice upper and lower case letters! :) thanks for the fun idea!
Robbin says
August 9, 2018 at 12:45 amThis is an awesome idea, I am going use this in my preschool class, the lil ones will love it…
Kristi says
September 11, 2018 at 6:56 pmThank you for the idea! I’m using this idea for a busy bag exchange I am organizing for our homeschool support group!