Earth Day Letter Match for Preschoolers
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This FREE Earth Day Letter Match activity gives you the opportunity to bring in what looks like a brand-new alphabet activity for your preschoolers, during Earth Day week. It is a fun and pretty hands-on activity that will allow your children to work on letter recognition matching uppercase and lowercase letters while developing pre-reading skills necessary to learn how to read when they go to kindergarten.
This activity is great to strengthen the children’s concentration, letter knowledge, one-to-one correspondence, and creating sets skills.
It comes with nine pages with three blue cards for uppercase letters and three green cards for lowercase letters each and includes all the letters of the alphabet. You can get it at the end of this post.
Importance of Recognizing Letters
A child needs to recognize and name the letters of the alphabet and distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters. Only then that child will be able to say the letter sounds, then put sounds together to make syllables, later words, and finally put words together to form phrases. In other words, it is impossible for a child to read if he or she doesn’t know the letters and the sounds they make when they are together.
How To Prepare The Earth Day Letter Match Activity
This low-prep free printable can be used as a small group activity, writing center option, take-home game, and Quiet area option.
Materials needed:
- Free Earth Day Letter Match printable.
- Printer.
- White cardstock.
- Scissors.
- Laminator.
- Laminating pouches.
- Small basket or Ziploc bag
- Optional: chain links.
To prepare the Earth Day Letter Match activity, fill out the form below to download and print each page using white cardstock, then cut out and laminate the cards to make them last longer. Place them in a small basket or a Ziploc bag, to protect them.
How To Use The Earth Day Letter Match Activity
This activity can be used individually or with a partner. Your preschoolers gather the cards, select one, identify the letter on it, and find the matching pair among the rest of the cards.
If your kids are just starting to learn the names of the letters, let them start with just a few letter sets. Then you can and two or three more every time they use it.
When your kiddos know all of the letter names, have them say the sound that each letter makes as they match the cards.
Other Ideas
- You can use this activity as a folder game. You just have to print, cut out the cards and paste the ones with uppercase letters on a manila folder. Laminate the folder and the rest of the lowercase letter cards to make them last longer. Then place the cards in an envelope or a Ziploc bag, to keep them safe.
- You can have the children match the letter with magnetic, wooden, or foam letters, to have another option for them to do.
- You can use a hole puncher to make a hole in the middle of the right-hand side of the uppercase letter cards, and one in the left-hand side of the lowercase letter cards, and have the children use chain links to put the pairs together.
Enhance Their Learning Using Storybooks
Remember that reading to your preschoolers allows them to get involved in the theme, expand their vocabulary, and work on their pre-reading and pre-writing skills, among other benefits.
These are some fun books related to Earth Day you can use. You can find them at your local library, used book store, or on Amazon. Clicking on each picture will take you directly to Amazon through my affiliate links, to save you time looking for them.
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 or Earth Day board on Pinterest for later.
I hope you enjoy this idea, and help your preschoolers have fun while learning, during Earth Day week. 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 this activity worked for you, or if you think I need to add or replace something.
