Mother’s Day Cactus Letter Match for Preschoolers
If you looking for an alphabet activity for your preschoolers to do on Mother’s Day week, this fun and pretty hands-on Mother’s Day Cactus Letter Match activity will allow your preschoolers to work on letter recognition and matching uppercase and lowercase letters.
This activity is great to help preschoolers develop their concentration, visual discrimination, letter knowledge, one-to-one correspondence, creating sets, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor skills.
Getting Your 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 6 and a half pages with uppercase letter cups, and 8 and a half pages with lowercase letter cactus. Each cup and cactus have a circle in the middle with one of the letters of the alphabet. The idea is to match the letters “planting” a cactus in the cup with the matching letter.
Materials needed:
- Free Cactus Letter Match printable found at the end of this post.
- Printer.
- White cardstock.
- Scissors.
- Laminator or Dry-erase pockets.
- Small basket or Ziploc 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 ornaments and letter circles, to make them last longer. Place them in a small basket or a Ziplock bag, to protect them.
How To Use Mother’s Day Cactus 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 cup, find the cactus that matches that letter, and “plant” it on top of the cup.
If your kids are just starting to learn the names of the letters, let them start with just a few letter pairs. 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 pieces.
Other Ideas
- You can use this activity as a folder game. You just have to cut out the cups and paste them into a manila folder. Then cut out the cactus and place them in a manila 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.
- They can write the letters on paper using pencils, markers, or crayons.
- They can find words that start with all or some of the letters and match them with the appropriate cactus or cup.
- Prepare centers using this one and my other Mother’s Day activities. You can find them below.
Mother’s Day Books
For me, there is no such thing as too much reading. The more you read to your children, the better, so don’t forget to your library periodically according to the theme and season.
These are some good suggestions you can use for Mother’s Day. You can find all of these books at your local library, at a used books store, and at Amazon. You can use the links in each picture to get them through my Amazon links, so you can grow your library for years to come.
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 Mother’s Day board on Pinterest.
I hope to make your lesson planning a little easier. 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. 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.
