St. Patrick’s Day Find the Letter for Preschoolers
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I love using the holidays to spruce things up and change the classroom routine a little bit so my kiddos don’t get bored, and these fantastic St. Patrick’s Day Find the Letter worksheets are perfect for this purpose.
I have to say that St. Patrick’s Day was not on my radar for many years. See, I was born and raised in the tropics, and this holiday is not celebrated there. However, 23 years ago, it became a very important one for me when my first niece was born.
I have two nieces who are half-Irish. Their father, who was a great brother-in-law, was pure Irish, and he and my sister kept Irish traditions very close, even after his passing. Oh boy! You should see the girls dancing the Irish Step (the typical Irish dance). They are great dancers.
St. Patrick’s Day Find the Letter Worksheets
With St. Patrick’s Day as an excuse, I created some FREE Find the Letter worksheets using the letters Cc, Ss, Hh, Aa, Pp, Rr, Gg, and Ll, which are the beginning letters of some of the words that are typically used during St. Patrick’s Day.
Your preschoolers will love working on recognizing the uppercase and lowercase versions of those letters, among many other letters of the alphabet, in these adorable and FREE St. Patrick’s Day Find the Letter worksheets.
Each page has a white background to save on ink, but I wanted to include the featured image in color to make it more attractive and extra fun for your children. You can always print it out in black and white if you don’t want the color, but the image will be seen regardless.
This set of alphabet worksheets includes ten pages, one for each of the words clover, leprechaun, horseshoe, shamrock, harp, pot, rainbow, green, coin, and hat.
If you do the “letter of the week” activity in your classroom, you can use these printables with that in mind to teach them one letter at a time.
The St. Patrick’s Day Find the Letter Worksheets are an excellent resource to be used as an individual or sent-home activity, but also as an addition to different centers such as the Literacy center, writing center, and quiet area. You can prepare different stations using the other St. Patrick’s Day-related activities I created for you, which can be found at the bottom of this post. They all come with free printables.
Materials You Will Need
The materials will depend on how you want to use these printables and how long you want them to last. If you want to give them to your children to use them one time, you will need a printer, white paper, dot-to-dot markers, regular markers, and crayons. However, I always recommend giving the children options. So, if you want to be creative and change things around by adding a bit of extra fun for your kiddos, you can use other materials such as buttons, fingerpaint, counting chips, and pom-poms.
If you don’t print out different pages for your children but want to reuse the printables multiple times, you can print out the pages on cardstock and laminate them. To save on lamination costs, place the pages in dry-erase pockets and have your preschoolers use a dry-erase markers to make this activity reusable.
In that case, you will also need a laminator, white cardstock, laminator sheets, sheet protectors, and dry-erase markers.
How to Use The St. Patrick’s Day Worksheets
Give the child one worksheet at a time, and have him/her put a circle around the uppercase letter (using a green crayon or marker) and a square around the lowercase letter (using a yellow crayon or marker).
If you don’t want to use this idea, let your children use any of the manipulatives I mentioned above to mark the letter they seek. You might also use this opportunity to review the letters’ sounds and names with your children.
Benefits of These Worksheets
The use of these worksheets has many important benefits for your children’s learning process development such as:
- Work on pre-reading skills when they are focusing on the letters and working on their fine motor skills.
- Letter recognition reinforcement when they have to discriminate which is the letter they are looking for among the others.
- Uppercase and lowercase letter discrimination because they have to identify both cases of the letter they are working on, from the rest of the letters.
- Fine motor skills development when they use their hands to trace around the letter or their fingers to hold the manipulatives they are using to mark the letters.
- One-to-one correspondence when they place manipulatives on top of the letters.
- Eye and hand coordination when they find the letters they are looking for and trace a shape around them or place a manipulative on top of them.
- Concentration skills when they have to focus on looking for the letters to be able to do the activity.
Supporting the Theme with Books
If you know me a little bit already, you might know that I’m big on using books with every theme you talk about in your classroom, and to do that you don’t even have to read them all the time!
Just by showing your children the pictures of a book, letting them create the story in their minds, and talking about them, you are modeling how to hold a book the right way. Turning the pages gently and following the words with a pointer, you teach them how you read from top to bottom and left to right (the way you also write correctly).
Children adore stories. That time you spend reading to your children is special and will help you build a beautiful relationship with them. It will also help them develop important pre-reading and pre-writing skills that will be essential later in Kindergarten as well.
There are many books that you can use for St. Patrick’s Day. You can find some at your local library, used book store, and on Amazon. These are some I like. If you want to add some to your collection, just click on the titles and my affiliate links will take you to the right page in seconds.
- How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace. Start a St. Patrick’s Day tradition with this fun and lively children’s picture book and get inspired to build leprechaun traps of your own at home or in the classroom!
- Ten Lucky Leprechauns by Kathryn Heling. Count from one to ten as one little leprechaun looking for treasure magically becomes ten silly leprechaun friends at the end of the rainbow.
- The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day by Natasha Wing. It’s the night before St. Patrick’s Day, and Tim and Maureen are wide awake, setting traps to catch a leprechaun! When they wake the next morning, they’re shocked to find that they’ve caught a leprechaun. But will they find his pot of gold?
- The Secret Life of the Leprechauns by Luna James. A fun and silly picture book that allows children to enter the life of the leprechauns.
- The Berenstain Bears’ St. Patrick’s Day by Mike Berenstain. Join Papa, Mama, and the cubs as Gramps introduces them to some traditions most associated with the holiday, from gathering to enjoy a parade down Main Street to leprechauns and pots of gold.
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover! by Lucille Colandro. It’s spring, and the Old Lady is swallowing a clover, a butterfly, a daisy, and more! Herald spring with this joyful story, full of bouncy rhymes and bright art!
Tying It Up Together
Every holiday has an incredible amount of resources that you can take advantage of and use to make every day in your classroom a fun and learning experience that your kiddos will love to go to.
Simply don’t forget to tie this holiday or any other theme you might be using with different standards (Math, Science, Literacy, Art, etc.), to make the learning process more cohesive and complete.
Pit It for Later
If you don’t have time to download this printable right away, just pin it to your St. Patrick’s Day or any of your Pinterest boards, for when you need it.
I hope you have tons of fun with your preschoolers during St. Patrick’s Day week and remember to download your FREE printables. Just enter your email address in the box to confirm the subscription, and the pdf file will open instantly for you to print and save.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
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