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A Simple Letter Matching Game

June 29, 2015 by Sarah 4 Comments

Wondering how to introduce the “other” type of letter? Whether you start by teaching your little ones lowercase letters or uppercase letters, a great way to introduce the other is with matching. As I always say, keep it slow and fun. Here is a fun game to play with matching letters that I wrote about last year:

As well, be sure to check out my Quiet Bins for tons of letter learning ideas little ones can do all on their own.

We have been playing with letters of the alphabet for quite some time in our house.  I like to encourage my kids to  ‘play’ with the letters and alphabet recognition activities, keeping the learning fun and meaningful.  Most of the time, we simply have the letters out in the play room, or on the floor with sticky tape, and as we are playing games just happen naturally.  Once in awhile we do an actual letter matching game.

a learning uppercase and lowercase letter matching game

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This morning while Madeline (11) was doing some writing at the kitchen table, Sammy (3.5) decided he would like to learn something new.  I asked him if he wanted to play with some letters, and he said he did, but he wanted to learn about the ‘little’ ones.  We have been playing with uppercase letters up to this point, using lowercase once in awhile with names or in environmental print.  So he does know that they exist, but we haven’t spent much time playing with them.

I thought I would make it a very fun introduction – using very few letters and a fun new tool.

Ideally I would have used the letters of Sammy’s name, but I didn’t have the right magnet letters … so we made do and used what we had.

For this Letter Matching Game:

We Used:

a cookie sheet

magnet alphabet letters (6 uppercase and 6 matching lowercase)

flour

a blush brush 🙂

How we played:

First, I put the alphabet letters on the cookie sheet.  I also gave Sammy a piece of paper with the 6 letters written on it and we talked about them.  He told me the letters he recognized (all of the uppercase) and a few of the lowercase too (mostly the ones that looked the same, and also the ‘a’ from his name).

preparing hte letter matching game with magnet letters

Next I sprinkled flour over the magnet letters.

Then he went on an excavation – just like in our dinosaur dig – using the blush brush (I believe this is what most archeologists use).  When he discovered a letter he tried to match it to his piece of paper.  A simple letter matching game.

hunting for uppercase and lowercase letters with this game

Once Sam found all of the letters, he took them out and matched them to the letters on the piece of paper.

matching the upper and lowercase letters on paper

And finally, he then used the blush brush to draw pictures in the flour 🙂

drawing pictures after a letter matching game

This was a fun way for Sammy to be introduced to uppercase and lowercase letters.  We used only a few letters, made it simple and easy, and a little messy too.

Matching upper and lower case letters will be our next venture in alphabet learning.  Slow and steady – we’ll get there!  Lots more letter matching games heading your way!

For more ideas on helping little ones learn all about the ABCs please check out my book: A Year of Educational Quiet Bins: The secret to peaceful days at home with kids.

Filed Under: All Ages, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Letters and Reading, Preschooler, Preschoolers Tagged With: alphabet games

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Comments

  1. Andrea says

    August 31, 2014 at 11:46 pm

    Love the Dino digging for letters!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      September 9, 2014 at 8:10 pm

      Thanks Andrea! My little guy likes that one too!

      Reply
  2. Cherine says

    October 5, 2014 at 10:03 am

    What a great idea! Anything my daughter can dig or forage for is a complete success! Thank you for sharing 🙂 Pinning!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      October 5, 2014 at 11:46 am

      Glad you enjoyed the activity Cherine! Thanks for taking the time to comment!

      Reply

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