Ice Cream Letter Match Activity for Preschoolers
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This fun and pretty hands-on Ice Cream Letter Match activity is perfect for the Summer and will allow your preschoolers to work on letter recognition and matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
This activity is great for helping preschoolers develop their concentration, visual discrimination, letter knowledge, one-to-one correspondence, creating sets, eye-hand coordination, fine motor skills, interactive play, and language development.
It is essential to give children plenty of opportunities to work on their ability to recognize and name the letters of the alphabet and say the letters’ sounds so that later on they are able to put sounds together to make syllables, then words, and finally put words together to form phrases.
Getting Your Ice Cream Letter Match Activity Ready
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
- Quiet area option.
It comes with 10 pages with upper-case ice cream scoops and lower-case cones. This low-prep activity is very easy to put together. You only need a handful of materials which are:
- Free Ice Cream Letter Match printable found at the end of this post.
- Printer.
- White cardstock.
- Scissors.
- Laminator
- Small basket or Zip-lock bag.
To prepare for the activity, fill out the form below to download and print out the free printable. Print each page using white cardstock, then cut out and laminate the scoops and cones, to make them last longer. Place them in a small basket or a Zip-lock bag, to protect them.
How To Use Ice Cream Letter Match Activity
This activity can be played individually or with a partner. To begin, preschoolers will get the basket or Zip-lock bag with the pieces. They have to identify the letter on each scoop, find the cone that matches that letter, and place the scoop on top of the cone.
If your kids are starting to learn the names of the letters, let them begin with just a few pairs. Then you can add 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 the scoops and the cones.
Other Ideas
- You can use this activity as a folder game. Just cut out the cones and paste them into a manila folder. Then cut out the scoops and place them in a manila envelope or a Zip-lock bag, to keep them safe.
- You can have the children match the 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 ice cream.
- Prepare centers using this one and my other Summer activities. You can find them below.
Ice Cream Related Books
I have said multiple times that there is no such thing as too much reading. The more you read to your children, the better, and to keep them interested in books, it is important to change your library periodically according to the theme and season.
These are some good suggestions you can use. You can find all these books at your local library, a used books store, and on Amazon. You can use the links in each title to get them through my Amazon links, so you can grow your library fast for years to come.
- The Ice Cream Shop by Saffia Abdul-Haqq. This rhyming book gives a child the opportunity to imagine the experience of going to the ice cream shop and having an exceptional taste sensation.
- Milk to Ice Cream by Lisa M. Herrington. Using vivid photos and engaging text, this fun and fact-filled book lets kids follow the exciting step-by-step process as milk goes from farm to factory where it becomes a cold, creamy ice cream.
- Isaac’s Ice Cream Tree by Angela Henderson. This sweet story and its magical exploration through the colors of the rainbow, the days of the week, and some of our favorite fruits, talks about Isaac, a boy who loves the sugar maple in his yard, and decides to give it a gift, because its branches are winter-bare and he’s sad about it. Then the tree returns the favor in the new morning snow, presenting him with balls of ice cream!
- Do Turtles Like Ice Cream? By Latisha Y. Langston. Baby Bear is about to find out if turtles like ice cream, as she and her friend Turtle, learn the importance of sharing with friends.
- Curious About Ice Cream by Bonnie Bader. This excellent Smithsonian book explains where ice cream came from, how its popularity spread, and many other interesting facts about ice cream.
- I Like You More Than Ice Cream Finger Puppet Board Book by Brick Puffington. This fun book features a fun finger puppet toy built into the board book, encouraging interactive play, hand-eye coordination, and language development in children.
- Splat the Cat: I Scream for Ice Cream by Rob Scotton. This Level One I Can Read book it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences, using short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts to support success for children eager to start reading on their own.
- Ice Cream: The Full Scoop by Gail Gibbons. The author details the many firsts in ice cream history, from the earliest ice cream crank to the original waffle cone, helping children follow the ice cream’s journey from farm to factory to freezer.
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 Summer board on Pinterest.
I hope you find that this Ice Cream Letter Match activity helps and entertains your kiddos, and makes your lesson planning a little easier, during summer. Don’t forget to get your FREE printable! You just have to click on the bottom below to download it and start using it.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
P.S. Let me know if this activity works for you, and don’t forget to write me if you would like to see an article or get a free printable about something specific. I will try my best to create it for you, so I can reach my goal of helping you in any way I can.
