Hearts Letter Match for Preschoolers
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This fun and hands-on Hearts Letter Match FREE activity complements your lesson plans for February. It will allow your preschoolers to work on letter recognition as they match the uppercase and lowercase letters. This activity is excellent for helping preschoolers develop their concentration, visual discrimination, letter knowledge, one-to-one correspondence, creating sets, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor skills.
It has five pages with different colored hearts, ready to be divided in half, one with an uppercase letter and the other with a matching lowercase letter.
Hearts Letter Match
This FREE printable can be used in different areas and ways, such as:
- Small group activity.
- Writing center option.
- Reading area option.
- Take home game and Quiet area option.
To get this easy-to-prep activity ready, you will only need:
- The free Hearts Letter Match printable can be found at the end of this post.
- Printer.
- White cardstock.
- Scissors.
- Laminator or Dry-erase pockets.
- Small basket.
Fill out the form below to download for an immediate download, and print each page using white cardstock, then cut the hearts in half using the dotted line and laminate them to make them last longer. Place them in a small basket or a Ziploc bag to protect them.
How To Use Activity
This activity can be played individually or with a partner. To begin, preschoolers will get the basket or Ziploc bag with the pieces. They have to identify the letter on each half heart, find the other half that matches that letter, and place it next to it to complete the heart.
If your kids are starting to learn the names of the letters, allow them to begin with just a few hearts. Then you can add two or three more every time they play.
When your kiddos know all the letter names, have them say each letter’s sound as they match pieces of the hearts.
Other Ideas
- You can use this activity as a folder game. You have to glue half of each heart on a manila folder. Then, place the other halves in a manila envelope or a Ziploc bag to keep them safe.
- You can have the children match each letter with magnetic, foam, or wooden letters to have another option for them to do.
- They can find words that start with all or some of the letters and match them with the appropriate heart.
- Prepare centers using this one and my other FREE Valentine’s activities. You can find them below:
- Valentine’s Animal Letter Match.
- Valentine’s Bears Counting Mats.
- Valentine’s Beginning Sound Clip Cards.
- Valentine’s Day Bingo.
- Valentine’s Day Find the Letter Activities.
- Valentine’s Day Memory Game.
- Valentine’s Day Math Puzzles.
- Valentine’s Day Word Wall Cards.
- Valentine’s Day Tracing Activities.
- Valentine’s Day Beginning Sounds.
Valentine’s Day Storybooks
I firmly believe that there is no such thing as too much reading, and keeping your preschoolers interested in books by changing your library periodically according to the theme and season is also a good way to encourage them to love books.
These are some good suggestions you can use for Valentine’s Month. You can find all these books at your local library, a used books store, and Amazon. You can use the links in each title to get them through my Amazon links and grow your library for years.
- How to Catch a Loveosaurus by Alice Walstead Blending exciting traps and STEAM concepts with hilarity and chaos to encourage reading, learning, and imagination, tell the story about how the kids are on the chase again, this time to trap a dinosaur that escaped from the museum and wants to spread love and kindness.
- Dr. Seuss Lovey Things uses the signature Dr. Seuss rhyme, featuring how Thing One and Thing Two are about sharing, caring, smiling, hugging, and blowing kisses.
- The Littlest Valentine by Brandi Dougherty tells the story of Emma, the littlest in the Valentine family. Still, she knows she has what it takes to help the family business prepare for the holiday.
- Little Blue’s Truck Valentines by Alice Schertle tells how Little Blue Truck delivers Valentine’s Day cards to all his farm animal friends.
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose by Lucille Colandro uses rhyming text and hilarious illustrations to tell how The Old Lady is swallowing a rose, some lace, some glitter, and more…to make a special gift for her Valentine!
- Pete the Cat: Valentine’s Day is Cool by James Dean is about when Pete the Cat realizes how much fun Valentine’s Day can be, and he decides to make Valentine cards for his family and friends.
- Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff uses his signature character, Mouse, as he makes valentines for all his friends, representing what he loves most about each of his friends.
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 or Valentine’s board on Pinterest.
This Hearts Letter Match activity will help entertain your kiddos and simplify lesson planning during Valentine’s month. Don’t forget to get your FREE printable! You must click on the bottom below to download and start using it.
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, 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 helpful.
