Easter Basket Letter Match Activity for Preschoolers

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If you looking for an alphabet activity for your preschoolers to do on Easter week, this fun and pretty hands-on Easter Basket Letter Match activity will allow your preschoolers to work on letter recognition and matching uppercase and lowercase letters, which will help them develop pre-reading skills necessary to learn how to read when they go to Kindergarten.

This is a great activity to strengthen the children’s concentration, letter knowledge, one-to-one correspondence, and creating sets skills.

Importance of Recognizing Letters

If a child doesn’t identify and name the letters and their sounds, it will not be possible to create the necessary base for him/her to start reading.

When a child can recognize and name the letters of the alphabet, that child can distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters. After that, that child will start to be able to say the letter sounds, then put sounds together to make syllables, later words, and finally put words together to form phrases.

Getting The Activity Ready

This free printable can be used in many ways such as small group activities, writing center options, take-home games, and Quiet area options.

It comes with five pages with baskets, one for each uppercase letter of the alphabet, and three pages with eggs, one for each lowercase letter of the alphabet.

Materials needed:

Free Easter Basket Letter Match printable (found at the end of this post).
printer
White cardstock
Laminator and Laminating pouches
Scissors
Small basket or Zip-lock bag

What to Do

To prepare for the Easter Basket Letter Match activity, fill out the form below to download and print out the free printables. Print each page using white cardstock, then cut out and laminate the baskets and eggs to make them last longer. Place them in a small basket or a Ziploc bag, to protect them.

How To Use The Activity

This activity can be played as individuals or with a partner. To begin, your preschoolers gather the baskets and eggs and identify the letter on them as they match the uppercase letter in each basket with the lowercase letter in each egg.

If your kids are just starting to learn the names of the letters, let them start with just a few baskets and letters. Then you can then two or three more every time they play.

When your kiddos know all of the letter names, have them say the sound that each letter makes as they match baskets and eggs.

Other Ideas

You can use this activity as a folder game. You just have to cut out the basket and paste them into a manila folder. Then cut out the eggs and place them in an envelope or a Zip-lock bag, to keep them safe.

You can have the children match the letter with magnetic letters, to have another option for them to do.

Prepare centers using this one and my other Easter activities. You can find them below.

Enhancing Their Learning With Books

Don’t forget to add some quality storybooks to the library and other centers’ baskets, and read them to your preschoolers during circle time and/or story time. Here are some of my favorite Easter books. You can find them at your local library, used book store, or Amazon. For your convenience, I added my affiliate links to each of the titles. You just have to click on your favorites and that will bring you to the Amazon website in seconds.

The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story by Mike Berenstain. Young readers will understand the real meaning behind Easter with this book.

A Very Happy Easter by Tim Thornborough. This book is a great way to make story time interactive and explain Easter to young children in a way that connects emotionally and builds empathy.

5-Minute Easter Stories by Disney Books. This book brings stories about spring-time fun or Easter Egg hunts. Every story is a delight, perfect before bedtime, storytime, or anytime!

The Story of the Easter Bunny by Katherine Tegen. With gorgeous and peaceful art, this fresh, innovative story describes how one little rabbit became a legend.

Turkey’s Eggcellent Easter by Wendi Silvano. This cute book talks about a turkey trying to win the eggstra-special Easter egg hunt! A fun book that will encourage your children’s imagination.

Good News! It’s Easter! By Glenys Nellist. The Easter season is an exciting time of growth and reflection as both nature and our human hearts anticipate the hope of new beginnings. Through playful illustrations in nature, this author introduces children to the gift of salvation.

It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny by Marilyn Sadler. This book encourages children to read all on their own, using simple words and illustrations, perfect for practicing readers ages 3-7, and lucky parents too!

Pete the Cat: Five Little Bunnies by James Dean. Sing along with Pete the Cat in his fun adaptation of “Five Little Monkeys”. Fans of Pete the Cat will love rocking out to this classic tune with a groovy Easter twist in this hardcover picture book.

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 Easter board on Pinterest for later.

I hope you find this Easter Basket Letter Match will help entertain your kiddos and make your job a little easier, during this Easter month. Don’t forget to get your printable! You just have to click on the bottom below to download it and start using it.

By the way, since St. Patrick’s Day is also coming, take a look at the FREE activities I created for that theme. You can find all of them at the end of this post.

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

Love,

P.S. Please let me know if this activity works for you, and if you would like to see an article or a printable about how to make something specific, please let me know and I will try my best to create it for you. 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.