Dogs Alphabet Matching Game for Preschoolers
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In celebration of National Dog Day this August 26th, I wanted to offer you this FREE Dog Alphabet Matching Game.
Preschoolers will love to match the letters in this hands-on alphabet matching game. It also adds greatly to your Dogs National Day activities pack or your pet theme.
This FREE Dogs Alphabet Matching Game comes with uppercase houses and balls, lowercase food bowls, and puppies, so you can decide to have your preschoolers match the uppercase letters, the lowercase letters, or upper to lowercase letters. You can get this game by clicking on the bottom at the end of this post.
Benefits of Letter Matching Game for Preschoolers
Since the letters are the base for any language, matching letter games help preschoolers get more familiar with the alphabet, and develop their ability to recognize the letters in both forms, uppercase, and lowercase. In other words, recognizing the letters will enable preschoolers to associate printed text with the spoken language.
Another advantage of this type of game is that keeps preschoolers engaged because they don’t feel bored doing them, and helps children learn alphabet letters easily and quickly. Once they recognize the letters and master their names, the children can learn the letter sounds easier, especially because the sounds of many letter names are very similar to the sound the letter makes.
How to Prepare and Use the Dogs Alphabet Matching Game
You will only need a handful of materials to put 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 in white cardstock. You can keep the houses’ pages together if you want or cut them out. Cut out the puppies, food bowls, and balls. Laminate everything for durability. If you want to use it as a folder game, just paste the houses into a manila folder.
You can also place transparent Velcro dots on top of the houses and behind the puppies, food bowls, and balls. That way the pieces will stick together as the child matches the letters.
Books About Dogs
It is always good to read story books about what you are talking about and add them to your library and other centers, to give children wide learning experiences and variety to choose from. These dog-related books could be an excellent source of knowledge for your preschoolers. You can find them at your local library, used book store, or on Amazon. I’ve added my direct Amazon links to each picture to make it easier for you.
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I hope you enjoy this game and help your preschoolers have fun while working on recognizing their letters. To get the FREE pack, you just have to click on the link below and put 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 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.
