Valentine’s Beginning Sound Clip Cards for Preschoolers
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These FREE Valentine’s Beginning Sound Clip Cards are perfect for helping your preschoolers develop their literacy skills further during February. They will strengthen the children’s phonological awareness, letter recognition, literacy, fine motor, and one-to-one correspondence skills.
This Valentine’s Beginning Sound Clip Cards pack includes three pages with six cards each. It is available at the end of this post.
Valentine’s Beginning Sound Clip Cards
The best way to teach the alphabet is through fun, hands-on activities that keep children engaged and interested. These clip cards are easy to use and help preschoolers develop fine motor skills when pressing the clothing pins or using dry-erase markers to mark the correct letters.
To prepare this activity, you will need the following materials:
- Valentine’s Beginning Sound Clip Cards, found at the end of this post.
- Printer.
- White cardstock.
- Scissors.
- Dry-erase markers or clothespins
- Laminator or Dry-erase pockets.
- Small basket.
Print the clip cards on white cardstock. Cut them apart and laminate them for multiple uses. Place them on a tray or basket with clothespins or dry-erase markers, and invite your preschoolers to name some pictures and find the beginning sound letters.
I like to make several sets and place them in different centers to entice the children and allow them to use this activity in various ways.
It is better to introduce the clip cards to your preschoolers and explain how to use them. You can even use the cards during circle time to review the names of the objects in each one and the letter names and sounds before you let them explore on their own.
How to Use the Activity
I like to give my preschoolers options. That is why, many times, I combine an activity with different related ones to set up multiple small group activities that run simultaneously. It will depend on your particular group.
Give the child the cards and clothespins or dry-erase markers. The child needs to name the objects on the cards and place a clothespin or use the dry-erase marker to mark the letter representing the beginning sound of that object’s name.
To set up multiple groups, check my other Valentine’s activities at the bottom of this post. They all come with FREE printables ready for you.
Extension Activities
To extend the activity, you can:
- Add manipulatives such as mini erasers, gems, pom-poms, buttons, and any other material to have the child mark the beginning sound using manipulatives instead.
- Have the child trace or copy the letters.
- Match each letter with magnetic, foam, or wooden letters.
- Find other words that start with the same sound.
Valentine’s Storybooks
Adding quality storybooks to enhance any preschool theme and reading them to your students during circle time and/or storytime is always important. Here are some of my favorite Valentine’s books that could be nicely paired with these beginning sounds clip cards.
These are some good suggestions for Valentine’s Day. You can find all of these books at your local library, at a used books store, and at Amazon. Use the links in each picture to get them through my Amazon links so you can grow your library for years to come.
- How Many Do I Love You? by Chery Lord-Byrd is a counting book full of love. Each flip of the page allows you to practice counting to ten, discovering fun-loving messages and cute animal illustrations.
- How to Catch a Loveosaurus by Alice Walstead blends exciting traps and STEAM concepts with hilarity and chaos to encourage reading, learning, and imagination; this charming adventure will delight young readers, families, and educators alike.
- The Night Before Valentine’s Day by Nathasha Wing invites you to join in on the colorful fun and then come to school the next morning for a day of parties and games!
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose! by Lucille Colandro. With rhyming text and hilarious illustrations, this wacky version of the classic song will appeal to young readers as they follow the Old Lady on a wild Valentine’s Day adventure.
- Monster Valentine by Diana Murray. Follow Groggle Monster on his Valentine’s Day card-making for Snarlina, his best friend worldwide.
- The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond. One day starts raining hearts, perfect for making Valentine’s Day cards, and Cornelia Augusta catches them to send cards to her animal friends.
- I Love You More, Babysaur by Rose Russner. Filled with cute dinosaur puns, beautiful illustrations, full names and pronunciations, and a heartwarming message, this story is perfect for sharing with someone you love.
- Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff is a board book with sturdy pages perfect for preschoolers. It provides a simple introduction to the fun of Valentine’s Day.
- Little Critter: Happy Valentine’s Day, Little Critter! by Mercer Meyer, has gatefold flaps that readers can pull back to discover all the fun Valentine’s Day surprises.
- I Love You Like No Otter by Rose Russner. This book combines a warm message of love with beautifully illustrated animals.
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 later, pin it to your Literacy or Valentine’s Day Pinterest board.
And then check my other Valentine’s Day activities. They all come with free printables and can be found below. That way, you can set up multiple small group activities for your preschoolers.
I hope you enjoy this free Valentine’s Beginning Sounds Clip Cards activity and that it helps you with your lesson planning for February. Don’t forget to grab your FREE pack by clicking on the link below and typing your information for an immediate download.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
P.D. Please let me know if this activity worked for you or if you think I need to add or replace something. 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. Also, if you come up with different ideas and want to share them, I would love to post them.
