Valentine’s Day Find the Letter for Preschoolers -

Valentine’s Day Find the Letter for Preschoolers

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These FREE Valentine’s Day Find the Letter activities are perfect for your literacy and writing centers, as a Quiet area option, or as a take-home activity during this holiday season.

This Valentine’s Day Find the Letter pack includes 12 pages, one for each of the words heart, key, cupid, potion, arrow, letter, lock, gift, flower, cake, mailbox, and chocolates, using the letters Hh, Kk, Cc, Pp, Aa, Ll, Gg, Ff, and Mm, which are some of the beginning letters of words that are typically used during Valentine’s Day. You can get it at the end of this post.

Valentine’s Day Find the Letter

Your preschoolers will love working on recognizing the uppercase and lowercase versions of those letters, along with many other alphabet letters, in these adorable activities.

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 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 type of activity will help preschoolers develop their letter-recognition skills. Letter recognition is important for preschoolers for several reasons. Some of those reasons are:

Helps them develop the skills to recognize letters, connect letters to sounds, and blend sounds to form words, laying the foundation for reading and writing.
Builds the foundation for learning to read and write later on.
Enhance their ability to express thoughts and ideas.
Develop their vocabulary by learning new words.
Upper-case and lower-case letter discrimination
Fine motor skills development.

Concentration skills

These activities also work well for your “letter of the week,” learning one letter at a time or in combination with my other Valentine’s Day activities, which you can find below for your convenience. They all include free printables.

Valentine’s Animals Letter Match.
Valentine’s Bears Counting Mats.
Valentine’s Beginning Sounds Clip Cards.
Valentine’s Day Bingo.
Valentine’s Day Memory Game.
Valentine’s Day Number Puzzle.
Valentine’s Day Tracing Activities.
Valentine’s Day Word Wall Cards.
Valentine’s Letters Beginning Sounds.

How to Prepare the Activity

This low-prep activity is very easy to prepare. You only need a handful of materials, depending on how you want to use these printables and how long you want them to last.

If you want to print them and hand them to your children for one-time use, you will need:

However, if you want to be creative and change things around, adding a bit of extra fun for your kiddos, you can use other materials such as:

If you don’t want to print multiple pages for your children but want to reuse the printables, print them on white cardstock and laminate them. To save on lamination costs, put the pages in a dry-erase pocket and have your preschoolers use a dry-erase marker to make the activity reusable.

How to Use The Activity Sheets

Give the child one page at a time, and have him/her say the letter name at the top of the sheet and try to “read” the word by looking at the picture. Then, circle the uppercase and lowercase letter features on the sheet using a crayon, dot-to-dot marker, regular markers, or a pencil.

To make the activities more challenging for advanced children, you can have them circle the uppercase letters in red and the lowercase letters in pink, for example.

If you don’t want to use this idea, you can let your children use other materials to mark the letter they are looking for, such as buttons, finger paint, counting chips, pom-poms, or mini hearts.

Valentine’s Day Books

If you know me a little bit already, you might see 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, and how you read from top to bottom and left to right (the way you also write correctly).

These are some good suggestions you can use for Valentine’s. You can find all these books at your local library, a used bookstore, and Amazon. You can use the links in each picture to get them through my Amazon links and grow your library for years.

How Many Do I Love You? by Chery Lord-Byrd. This children’s counting book is full of love, and each flip of the page allows you to practice counting to 10, discover fun-loving messages, and look at cute illustrations of animals.

How to Catch a Loveosaurus: A Valentine’s Day Adventure by Alice Walstead. This charming adventure will delight young readers, families, and educators by blending exciting traps and STEAM concepts with hilarity and chaos to encourage reading, learning, and imagination.

The Night Before Valentine’s Day by Natasha Wing. This story invites you to join in the colorful fun, 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.

Groggle’s Monster Valentine by Diana Murray. Follow Groggle Monster as he makes a Valentine’s Day card for Snarlina, his best friend in the world.

Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond. One day, it rains hearts, perfect for Valentine’s Day, and Cornelia Augusta catches them and sends them 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. This board book with sturdy pages is perfect for preschoolers who will enjoy the simple introduction to the fun of Valentine’s Day.

Little Critter: Happy Valentine’s Day, Little Critter! by Mercer Meyer. This storybook has gatefold flaps for readers to pull back and 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, pin it to your Valentine’s Day board on Pinterest so you can access it later.

I hope you have tons of fun with your preschoolers during Valentine’s Day week, and don’t forget to download your FREE Valentine’s Day Find the Letter activities. Enter your email address in the box to confirm your subscription, and the PDF will open instantly for you to print and save.

Love,