Mother’s Day Cactus Letter Match for Preschoolers
If you are looking for an alphabet activity for your preschoolers to do during Mother’s Day week, this FREE, 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 for helping preschoolers develop their concentration, visual discrimination, letter knowledge, one-to-one correspondence, set-making, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills.
The Mother’s Day Cactus Letter Match pack comes with 6 and a half pages with uppercase letter cups, and 8 and a half pages with lowercase letter cacti. You can get it at the end of this post.
Getting Your Mother’s Day Cactus Letter Match 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.
Each cup and cactus on this printable pack has 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 Ziploc 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 Ziploc 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 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 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 as another option.
- 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 visit 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 title to get them through my Amazon links, so you can grow your library for years to come.
- I Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. This is my favorite Mother’s Day book. It is the story of a mother who has a baby boy that she takes care of until it is his turn to return the love.
- Is Your Mama a Llama?” By Deborah Guarino. This book uses riddle rhymes and six lovable baby animals to help Lloyd the llama discover just what kind of animal his mama is.
- Just Me and My Mom by Mercer Meyer. Little Critter is spending a special day with his mom in this classic, funny, and heartwarming story.
- Llama Llama Mother’s Day Present” by Anna Dewdney talks about how Llama Llama is determined to make Mother’s Day as special as possible for his mama.
- The Night Before Mother’s Day” by Natasha Wing. It’s the night before Mother’s Day, and Dad and the kids are determined to show Mom just how much they love her.
- Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman is the story of a baby bird who goes in search of his mother, but not knowing what she looks like makes it a challenge. The timeless message of the bond between mother and child makes this precious book a treasure.
- Clifford’s Happy Mother’s Day by Norman Bridwell talks about how Emily Elizabeth is gathering together some surprises for her mom: candy, flowers, and a card she’ll make herself for Mother’s Day, and how Clifford accidentally knocks over the ink and tracks pawprints over the card and Emily’s sweater!
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! Just click the button 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 posting something you might find useful.
