Santa Letter Match for Preschoolers

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

This activity will help preschoolers develop concentration, visual discrimination, letter knowledge, one-to-one correspondence, creating sets, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor skills.

Importance of Recognizing Letters

To learn how to read and write later on, children need to develop the necessary pre-reading and pre-writing skills by learning how to identify and name the letters and their sounds. This will help them develop the ability to put letters’ sounds together to make syllables, then words, and finally put words together to form phrases.

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.

The Santa Letter Match activity comes with nine pages with six cards each, including all the letters of the alphabet. Each Santa card comes with one uppercase letter and each sleigh card has one lowercase letter.

To prepare the activity you just need to 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/or sound of each letter they are matching.
Use it as a folder game. You just have to cut out the cards and glue the Santa cards on a manila folder. Laminate the sleigh cards and place them on an envelope or a Ziploc bag, to keep them safe.
Have the children match each letter with magnetic, foam, or wooden letters, to have another option for them to do.
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 would recommend to include 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 the faster and add them to your collection, just click on my affiliate links to get directly to the Amazon page.

All I Want for Christmas Is Ewe by Ross Rossner. Combining 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 in 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 leaves a note for her family and helps her elderly neighbor prepare for the holiday, then she straps on her skis and heads 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. There are only five days until Christmas, and the Littlest Christmas Tree is still waiting for a home, then, 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. Follow Santa Claus’s journey from his workshop in the North Pole to his magical sleigh and flying reindeer as he brings gifts of every shape and size!

How to Catch Santa Claus by Alice Walstead. Poised to become a new holiday tradition, this merry picture book is filled with silly rhymes and illustrations sure to delight young readers and educators alike with STEAM concepts and 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 and/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.

Don’t forget to download your FREE Santa Letter Match activity. You only have to type your information on the link below, for an immediate download.

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.