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February 14, 2014

Letter Matching with Hearts

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Playing games with letters makes practicing so much more fun–especially when kids get a chance to move and learn at the same time!  That’s why we love these lower case letter games so much.

Fun Activities to Play and Learn with Letters!

A couple of years ago my sister sent my kids a set of red and a set of pink lowercase letter cards.  She made them by printing each lower case letter on pink and red paper.  Then, being the superstar that she is, she cut them into heart shapes and even laminated them.  (Like I said, superstar.)

Letter Matching Games for Kids!

Letter Games for Kids:

Hunting for Hearts.

Each kid grabs one of our many buckets and tries to find as many hearts as he or she can.  We basically use this as the start of our activity because they love looking for them!

Lower Case Letter Match.

Preschoolers don’t even know they are practicing letter identification when they find and match the corresponding red and pink letters together.  This is fun to do after a hunt.  Sometimes I even only hide certain letters I think one of them may need extra practice with.

Letter Memory. 

Choose a bunch of letter pairs to play with and place them face down on a table.  The kids take turns turning over letters to find matches.  You know the drill.

Making Words. 

The kids can put the letters together to form words. With 2 sets of cards there are lots of CVC words that kids can make and practice sounding out.  Older kids can also see how many sight words they can make.

ABC Letter Practice for Kids

This game can be easily adapted to practice numbers, words, and even be made with different holiday shapes!

The other Move and Learn co-hosts were busy putting together Move and Learn Activities for kids this week too, make sure to check them out!

Other Ways to Move & Learn this week:

  • 20 Ways to Play with Shapes from The Pleasantest Thing
  • A Circle of Objects for Baby to Play and Learn from hands on as we grow
  • Heart Color Walk from Toddler Approved
  • Check out all our Move & Learn activities
  • Lots of ideas on our Pinterest board!

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. tricia says

    February 16, 2012 at 5:43 am

    I like that the hearts are so big! My problem is that I’d have a hard time cutting out all those uniformly pretty hearts. 🙂

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    • Megan says

      February 17, 2012 at 2:36 am

      Very true! You could always use clip art to make a tracer or even buy a pack of those heart shaped die cuts they have sometimes at the dollar stores.

      Reply
  2. Nicole says

    February 15, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    Your sister does rock!! 😉

    Reply
    • Megan Sheakoski says

      February 15, 2014 at 8:19 pm

      LOL! True. True.

      Reply

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