Bees Alphabet Matching Game for Preschoolers
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This FREE Bee Alphabet Matching Game will be a great addition to your World Bee Day celebration this May 20th.
Preschoolers will love matching the letters in this hands-on alphabet game. It also makes a great addition to your Insects theme.
This Bees Alphabet Matching Game comes with two types of beehives: a flower and a honeycomb with uppercase letters and three different bees with lowercase letters. You can get this game at the end of this post.
Benefits of Alphabet Matching Games for Preschoolers
Alphabet matching games help preschoolers develop their ability to recognize the letters in both uppercase and lowercase forms and associate printed text with spoken language.
This type of game also keeps preschoolers engaged, entertaining them and helping them learn the letters of the alphabet easily and quickly. Once they recognize the letters and master their names, the children can learn the letter sounds more easily, mainly because the sounds of many letter names are very similar to the sounds those letters make.
How to Prepare and Use the Bees Alphabet Matching Game
You will only need a handful of materials to prepare this game. These are:
- Printer.
- White cardstock.
- Scissors.
- Laminator.
- Laminator pouches.
- Transparent Velcro dots (optional)
Since this is a hands-on alphabet game, you only have to print the pages on white cardstock and cut out the pictures. For durability, laminate everything. If you want to use it as a folder game, paste the items with uppercase letters into a manila folder.
You can also place transparent Velcro dots on top of the uppercase items and behind the bees. The pieces will stick together as the child matches the letters.
Bee-related Books
Read to your children every day, at least once. Books help children feel connected, better understand what you are talking about, and learn vocabulary, among many other essential benefits.
Many books address bees, both fictional and non-fictional. You can find books about these incredible insects at your local library, used bookstore, and on Amazon. You can access the book you want to add to your collection by clicking on the title, which contains my direct link. These are some of my favorite books about bees.
- National Geographic Readers: Bees by Laura Marsh. With beautiful, engaging, authentic photos and accessible text, kids will learn all about these incredible insects.
- The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall. Using Zooming, vibrant verse, this book celebrates the critically important honeybee.
- Five Bizzy Honey Bees by Lance Douglas. With its award-winning illustrations, this story takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the hive and explores the highly organized life of a honey bee.
- I Am a Bee by Rebecca McDonald. This excellent book teaches important bee facts, from the work that has to be done, their favorite food of honey and pollen, and the honeycomb where it’s all stored.
- Give Bees a Chance by Bethany Barton is a book for anyone who doesn’t quite appreciate how unique and vital bees are to the world and even humankind. It provides facts using cartoon-style illustrations.
- The Buzzy Bee Book for Kids by Alice McGinty uses amazing photos to teach kids about the honeybee, explore what happens inside and beyond the hive, learn what makes bees unique, and learn about the jobs bees have to keep the hive happy and healthy.
- The Rainbow Bee by Ricardo Gattas-Moras and Rob Jackson. The authors introduce surprise, conflict, and vulnerability in a way that children of all ages can understand and enjoy, using Rainbow, the main character in the story, to teach that differences can be beautiful and should be embraced.
- The Thing About Bees: A Love Letter by Shabazz Larkin is a tribute to the bees pollinating our food. Children are introduced to different kinds of bees, “how not to get stung,” and how we often fear things because we don’t fully understand them.
- Bee: A Peek-Through Picture Book by Britta Teckentrup. Through a hole in the book’s cover, a bee buzzing inside a flower shows how this little insect contributes to the beauty of the environment, from pollinating colorful flowers to buzzing through the bright, beautiful meadow.
- Amazing Bees: Buzzing with Bee Facts! by Sue Unstead. Using carefully selected photographic images to complement the text, this book teaches everything there is to know about bees, their vital role in the earth’s ecosystem, vocabulary, confidence, and fun facts.
- National Geographic Readers: Buzz, Bee! by Jennifer Szymanski. Through text features such as a vocabulary tree and a wrap-up activity, kids will be introduced to new words and concepts, helping them expand their understanding of the world.
- The Bee Book by Charlotte Milner. This is a perfect introduction to bee conservation for little ones, pollination, why they are declining, and what we can do to help.
- Beehive by Petra Bartikova. This charming book will educate, engage, and teach children about the bees’ meaningful lives and work by providing a unique look at life inside a beehive.
- Bees Like Flowers by Rebecca Bielawski. Watch the Honey Bee and learn why bees and flowers are good friends. Illustrations using vivid colors include many natural flower species that children may recognize from their gardens or have seen growing in the wild.
- Explore My World: Honey Bees by Jill Esbaum. In this charming picture book, kids will learn about the world of honeybees and the bees’ vital role in our delicate ecosystem.
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I hope you enjoy this game and help your preschoolers have fun while working on letter recognition. To get the FREE pack, just click the link below and enter your information for an immediate download.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
P.D. Please let me know if you like this game or if you think I should add or replace anything. My goal is to help you in any way I can by posting activities and ideas you might find useful.
