Pirates Find the Letter for Preschoolers

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Since I was a little girl, I was very intrigued by pirates, what they did, how they looked, and what type of life they lived. You see, I’m from the Dominican Republic which together with Haiti forms La Hispaniola, the first land where Christopher Columbus set foot when he first came to America in 1492. By the early 17^th century, this and other nearby islands like La Tortuga, located on the northwest coast of La Hispaniola, became regular stopping points for Caribbean pirates. I grew up listening to these stories which are part of our history books.

Talk Like a Pirate Day is celebrated on September 19, and I wanted to use the opportunity to change once again the routine and provide my preschoolers with a hands-on literacy activity, to help them learn their ABCs.

Pirate Find the Letter Activity

Your preschoolers must have every opportunity they can to recognize the letters of the alphabet, to be able to read, and later on, use engaging letter-based activities like this one to practice their visual discrimination, fine motor, concentration, and one-to-one correspondence skills, and overall to get familiar with the shape of the letters, in both, lowercase and uppercase versions.

They will love to work on specific letters of the alphabet, with these hands-on adorable, and FREE Pirates Find the Letter worksheets.

Each page has a white background to save on ink in two different versions, one that features a big image in color to make it more attractive and extra fun for your children, and another one that has the same image but in a very small size in the right corner of each worksheet. You can always print it out in black and white if you don’t want the color. The image will be seen regardless.

This set of alphabet worksheets includes 16 pages, two for each of the letters Pp for pirate, Tt for treasure, Mm for map, Ss for ship, Ii for island, Cc for crow’s nest, Hh for hook, and Ss for swords.

Pirates Find de Letter Activity with Full Pictures

Pirates Find de Letter Activity with Tiny Pictures

The Pirates Find the Letter Activity is an excellent resource to be used as an individual and/or as a send-home activity, but also as an addition to different centers such as the Literacy Center, Writing Center, and Quiet Area.

Materials You Will Need

The materials will depend on how you want to use these printables and how long you want them to last. If you just want to print them and hand them to your children to use, you will need a printer, white paper, dot-to-dot markers, regular markers, crayons, or pencils.

However, if you want to be creative and change things around adding a bit of extra fun for your kiddos, you can add other materials such as buttons, fingerpaint, counting chips, pom poms, and/or coins.

If you don’t want to use different pages for your children but want to reuse the printables multiple times, you can print out the pages on cardstock and laminate them. If you want to save on lamination costs, you can stick the pages in a sheet protector and have your preschoolers use a dry-erase marker to make this activity reusable. In that case, you will also need a laminator, white cardstock, laminator sheets, dry-erase pocket sleeves, and dry-erase markers.

How to Use Pirates Find the Letter Activity

Give the child one worksheet at a time, and have him/her find the appropriate letter and draw a circle or use a dot-to-dot marker to mark the uppercase and lowercase versions of that letter. If you don’t want to use this idea, you can let your children use any of the other materials to mark the letter they are looking for.

Supporting the Theme with Books About Pirates

If you have read some of my posts you might know that I’m big on using storybooks in the classroom with every theme and placing them in most of the centers. That will give your kiddos more opportunities not only to look at them and learn from them but also to ask you questions that will increase their knowledge and vocabulary.

Just by showing your children the pictures of a book, letting them create the story in their minds, and talking about it, you are modeling how to hold a book the right way and turn the pages gently, how you read from top to bottom and left to right (the way you also write correctly).

Children adore stories and that special time you spend reading to your children not only will help you build a beautiful relationship with them but also will help them develop important pre-reading and pre-writing skills that will be essential later on in Kindergarten.

These are some pirate books that you can use. You can find them at your local library, used book store, and on Amazon, where you can go quickly through my affiliate links, by clicking on the titles.

Where Do Pirates Go on Vacation? by Kim Ann. This story is a fun adventure sure to delight any child, featuring pirates, guessing games, rhyming adventures, and vividly illustrated scenes.

Pirates Don’t Knit by Melinda Kinsman. This book has bright, full-page illustrations that kids will love including flowing rhymes, a fun story about being yourself, short verses, a few challenging words, and a look-and-find activity and other puzzles.

How to Be a Pirate by Sue Fliess. Children get to earn their sea legs on a pirate ship amidst the goofiest pirates ever, learn pirate lingo and rules, and choose a pirate look.

The Berenstain Bears Pirate Adventure by Mike Berenstain. With well-known characters and beautiful illustrations, this book is perfect for little adventurers.

Pete the Cat and the Treasure Map by James Dean. When Captain Pete discovers a treasure map, he and his crew are ready to set out and sail the seas to find the buried gold and jewels. But they weren’t expecting to find a giant sea monster along the way!

Pirate Boy by Eve Bunting. After reading his favorite book about a pirate boy, Danny wonders what would happen if he sailed away on a pirate ship. Luckily, his mother reassures him that she will find him no matter what. Children will love this adventurous and ultimately reassuring tale of a mother’s love.

Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC by June Sobel. Hilarious text and adventurous animal pirates harmonize in an irresistible book for alphabet-learning, pirate-loving kids everywhere.

Go, Go, Pirate Boat by Katrina Charman. Join two seafaring pirates and their captain on a nautical adventure to find a treasure chest, in this read-aloud to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat song.

Pin It For Later

If you are in a rush and don’t have time to read the post and download the printable but want to save it for later, pin this to your Literacy board on Pinterest for later.

I hope you enjoy this free activity and help you have fun during Talk Like a Pirate Day with your preschoolers. To get the FREE Pirate Letter Find Activity, you just have to click on the link below.

Then check out other FREE literacy activities I have and get them too, to expand your collection, and help your preschoolers have fun while learning.

Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.

Love,

P.D. Please let me know if you like any of these ideas worked for you, or if you think I need to add or replace something. My goal is to help you in any way I can and I don’t like anything better than to post something that you might find useful. Also, if you came up with different ideas and want to share them, I would love to post them as well.