Bats Castle Alphabet Cards

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These FREE Bats Castle Alphabet Cards can be used for different literacy and math activities throughout the week, hoping to give your preschoolers something different to do and give you more options for your lesson plans.

Here in Florida, you don’t see changes in the leaves, and the colder temperatures only last one or two days, unfortunately, but we always try to help children see the differences that happen in other states and even countries. It’s a good social studies lesson, which adds to their education. Regardless of the weather, Halloween is an exciting time for young children, and a good opportunity to use their excitement and bring something new to the classroom.

This printable includes all the letters of the alphabet distributed over 13 pages with four cards each, two castle cards with uppercase letters, and two bat cards with lowercase letters. Make sure to grab your FREE set at the end of this post!

How to Prepare Your Cards

Print each page using white cardstock to make the cards strong enough to support daily use. Cut them out and laminate them to make them last longer.

I always print several sets, to be able to place them in different centers such as:

Small group activity.
Literacy activity.
Writing center option.
Take-home activity.
Quiet area option

It is a good practice since it gives preschoolers choices and invites them to use them.

How to Use the Cards

As a Phonemic Awareness Activity –to teach or review the letters’ sounds and names. You can also show a letter card and invite the children to say a word that starts with that letter.

As a literacy matching activity – have your preschoolers match uppercase and lowercase letter cards, and/or match each letter with plastic, wooden, or foam manipulative ones.

As a writing activity – have the children copy the letters using pencils, crayons, or markers, or trace them on top of them using dry-erase markers.

Benefits of this Activity

This activity will allow preschoolers to practice their:

Letter recognition or identification.
Name each letter and match it with its upper and lower-case written form.
Ability to distinguish between letters that look alike.
One-to-one correspondence.
Fine motor skills.
Pre-writing skills.

Related Storybooks

You know I never leave my storybooks behind. Reading to your children every day brings them an incredible number of benefits to extend their vocabulary and build up the base for the development of their reading and writing abilities.

These are some of the books you can use during this time. You can find them at your local library, used book store, and on Amazon. If you click on the titles my affiliate links will take you directly to the Amazon page, where you can purchase your favorites.

Noelle and the Haunted House: A Children’s Halloween Book by Mikaela Wilson. This is the perfect book to showcase children using their creative thinking and ingenuity to design and implement their own Halloween fun, encouraging creativity and mental development, fostering resourcefulness and imagination, and promoting ownership and follow-through of a project.

The Spooky Wheels on the Bus by J. Elizabeth Mills. Count from One Spooky Bus up to Ten Goofy Ghosts as this Halloween ride races through town picking up a few unsuspecting passengers along the way! Eye-catching art and a bouncy, countdown rhyme is sure to make this a read-aloud favorite!

The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing. Little monsters and goofy goblins take center stage in this silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore’s beloved poem. But what will happen on Halloween when the monsters come face to face with human trick-or-treaters in this fun-filled book?

Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell. This gentle story and beautifully detailed illustrations give an intimate look at the cycle of life, as a pumpkin named Jack begins to rot when Halloween is over. Tim set it out in the garden and watched it change.

Corduroy’s Best Halloween Ever! by Don Freeman. Halloween is almost here, and Corduroy is going to have a party. He and his friends will carve a jack-o’-lantern, bob for apples, and go trick-or-treating! But there is one problem-Corduroy needs to choose a costume. What will he wear?

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 it to your Literacy Pinterest board, so you can have it available when you need it.

I hope you enjoy these FREE Bats Castle Alphabet Cards and help your preschoolers learn or review letters.

Don’t forget to grab your FREE printable, by clicking on the link below.

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

Love,

P.D. Please let me know if 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 will love to post them as well.