Snowflakes Letter Match for Preschoolers

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Invite your preschoolers to match the uppercase and lowercase letters with this FREE Snowflakes Letter Match hands-on activity, ideal for the Winter season.

This activity will help preschoolers develop concentration, visual discrimination, letter knowledge, one-to-one correspondence, creating sets, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor skills. It includes a little over four pages with six snowflakes each, including all the alphabet letters. Each snowflake is divided into one uppercase and one lowercase letter.

Importance of Recognizing Letters

When children learn to identify and name the letters and their sounds, they develop the necessary pre-reading and pre-writing skills to learn how to read and write later in kindergarten. That way, they can put the letters’ sounds together to make syllables, then words, and finally, words together to form phrases.

Snowflakes Letter Match

This FREE Snowflakes Letter Match activity can be used in different areas and ways, such as:

Small group activity.
Writing center option.
Reading area option.
Take home game
Quiet area option.

To prepare the activity, print the pages using white cardstock, cut the snowflakes out, cut them in half, and laminate all the pieces. Then, place the cutout snowflakes inside a basket and put them on a table. Let your preschoolers have fun trying to find the matching letters. It’s okay if they want to do it with a partner.

To extend the activity, you can:

Ask children to say the name and sound of each letter they match.
Use it as a folder game. Cut out the snowflakes, divide them in half, and paste one half on a manila folder. Laminate the other half of the snowflakes and place them in an envelope or a Ziploc bag to keep them safe.
Have the children match the letter with magnetic, foam, or wooden letters to give them another option.
Copy the letters using pencils, markers, or crayons.
Identify each letter and find a word that starts with each letter.
Place the matched letters in alphabetical order.

Books About Snowflakes

As usual, I recommend including fiction and nonfiction books about snowflakes. This will allow your preschoolers to learn new vocabulary and tie this activity with science, math, and other domains, which is ideal for a comprehensive learning process. These are some of the books about snowflakes I like. You can find those books at your local library, a used bookstore, or on Amazon. Click on my affiliate links to get them faster and add them to your collection.

Ten Sparkly Snowflakes by Tiger Tales uses the woodland animals playing snowy games to teach children to subtract snowflakes from 10 to 1 with each page turn.

The Ordinary Snowflake by Ashlee Ridlon is a heartwarming story full of bright and colorful illustrations, humor, and self-discovery that teaches children how our differences make us each unique.

Curious About Snow by Gina Shaw uses full-color photographs and real snowflake photos to teach the science behind snow, the history of record-setting blizzards and snowstorms, and how people have fun in the snow.

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin is a biographical tribute to Wilson Bentley, who used his camera and microscope to catalog hundreds of snowflake photographs, give slideshows of his findings, and publish a book of his photos. His work became the basis for all we know about beautiful, unique snowflakes today.

The Tiny Snowflake by Arthur Ginolfi is a beautiful and touching picture book filled with bright illustrations and simple language to teach children that everyone has a special purpose in life.

Pin It For Later

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Then check out my other activities for Christmas and Winter. They are educational and fun and come with FREE printables to enjoy and add to your collection.

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

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