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 routine in the classrooms 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 over there. However, 23 years ago it became a very important one for me when my first niece was born.
I have two nieces that 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 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 to work 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. The image will be seen regardless.
This set of alphabet worksheets includes 10 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 and/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 just want to print them and hand them to your children to use, 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. If you want to save on lamination costs, you can stick the pages in a sheet protector and have your preschoolers use a dry-erase marker to make this activity reusable.
In that case, you will also need the following materials: 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 upper case letter or use the color green, and a square around the lower case letter or use the color yellow.
If you don’t want to use this idea, you can let your children use any of the manipulatives I mentioned above to mark the letter they are looking for. 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 ones.
- 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 is when they place manipulatives on top of the letters.
- Eye and hand coordination, when they look and the letters they are looking form and trace a shape around them or place a manipulative on top of them.
- Concentration skills, because 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 and letting them create the story in their minds and talking about them, you are modeling how to hold a book the right way and turn the pages gently, 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 on in Kindergarten as well.
With this in mind, these are some of the books that I like to use with St. Patrick’s Day in mind.
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 don’t forget 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,
P.S. If you would like to see an article about how to make something specific, please let me know and I will try my best to write 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.
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