Santa Letter Match for Preschoolers

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With Christmas around the corner and even when your preschoolers are on winter break, you can continue their learning process by inviting them to match the uppercase and lowercase letters with this FREE Santa Letter Match hands-on activity, which is ideal for this season.

The Santa Letter Match activity pack includes nine pages and six cards each, including all the alphabet letters. Each Santa card has one uppercase letter, and each sleight card has one lowercase letter.

Importance of Recognizing Letters

Children must develop the necessary pre-reading and pre-writing skills to learn to read and write later. This involves learning how to identify and name letters and their sounds. This will help them develop the ability to combine letter sounds to make syllables, then words, and finally, words to form phrases.

This activity will help preschoolers learn how to identify and name letters and their sounds and develop other multiple skills, such as:

Concentration.
Visual discrimination.
Letter knowledge.
One-to-one correspondence.
Creating sets.
Eye-hand coordination.
Fine motor skills.

Santa Letter Match Activity

This FREE Santa Letter Match activity 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.

To prepare the activity, you will need the following materials:

Santa Letter Match pack (found at the end of this post).
Printer.
White cardstock.
Laminator and laminating sheets.
Scissors.

Print the pages using white cardstock, cut the cards out, and laminate all the pieces. Then, place the cutout cards inside a basket and put it on a table. Let your preschoolers have fun trying to find the matching letters. It’s okay if they want to do it with a partner.

Extension Ideas

To extend the activity, you can:

Say the name and sound of each letter they are matching.
Use it as a folder game. You cut out the cards and glue the Santa cards on a manila folder. Laminate the sleight cards and place them in an envelope or a Ziploc bag to keep them safe.
To give the children another option, have them match each letter with magnetic, foam, or wooden letters.
Copy the letters using pencils, markers, or crayons.
Identify each letter and find a word that starts with each letter.
Place the matched letters in alphabetical order.

Christmas Storybooks

As usual, I recommend including storybooks. Below are some of the books I like. You can find those books at your local library, used books store, and on Amazon. To get them faster and add them to your collection, click on my affiliate links directly to the Amazon page.

All I Want for Christmas Is Ewe by Ross Rossner combines beautiful illustrations, charming animal puns, and the evergreen message of love. This book is a marvelous way to celebrate the season and share your love for each other.

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas on the Farm by Craig Manning. In this Christmas picture book for kids, readers will love sharing the excitement before Santa Claus arrives in this charming twist on the classic holiday story, filled with sweet farm animals, delightful rhymes, and beautiful illustrations.

The Christmas Wish by Lori Ever. Long ago, a brave little girl named Anja wanted to be one of Santa’s elves. So, she left a note for her family and helped her elderly neighbor prepare for the holiday. Then, she strapped on her skis and headed out into the snowy landscape. A generous trim size, matte cover, extraordinary photographs, and foiled title make this a special book for the holiday season.

Little Red Sleigh by Erin Guendelsberger. This heartwarming book is full of winter joy and Christmas magic and will remind you and your kids that no dream is out of reach if you believe.

The Littest Christmas Tree by R. A. Herman. Only five days until Christmas, the Littlest Christmas Tree still awaits a home. On Christmas Eve, its wish comes true when the man who runs the Christmas tree stand takes it home to his family.

A Silly Milly Christmas by Sheri Wall. With plenty of rhyming and repetition, this book is perfect for reading aloud, early learning, and animal lovers everywhere.

Llama Llama Jingle Bells by Anna Dewdney. With short and simple rhyming text, the Llama Llama board books introduce Llama Llama to children before they’re ready for longer full-length stories. And their small size and durable pages are perfect for little hands.

Goodnight Santa: A Bedtime Christmas Book for Kids by Michelle Robinson follows Santa Claus’s journey from his workshop in the North Pole to his magical sleigh and flying reindeer, where he brings gifts of every shape and size!

How to Catch Santa Claus by Alice Walstead is poised to become a new holiday tradition. This merry picture book is filled with silly rhymes and illustrations that delight young readers and educators alike with STEAM concepts, classic hilarity, and chaos.

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 when you need it, pin this to your Christmas or Winter board on Pinterest.

Then check out my other activities for Christmas and Winter at the end of this post. They are educational and fun and come with FREE printables for you to enjoy and add to your collection.

Remember to download your FREE Santa Letter Match activity. To do so, type your information on the link below, and it will download immediately.

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.