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Christmas Tree Learning Activities for Toddlers & PreK

Let's get into the Christmas spirit with some fun, hands-on Christmas Tree Learning activities! These FREE printable activities are designed for toddlers and preschoolers to practice math and literacy skills such as counting, number recognition, number quantity, shapes, alphabet recognition, letter cases, visual discrimination and more!

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Math Activities:

Number Tree Puzzle, including 1-10, 11-20 and 10-100 in both color and black & white.

Roll & Cover Game: Includes 2 difficulty levels. For an easier game, roll 1 die and cover the correct number (1-6) with a candy, pom pom or any other small object. For a more challenging game, use 2 dice, roll and add them up, then cover the correct number (2-12). Keep going until all numbers are covered.

Christmas Tree counting and matching 1-10 with pom poms. Includes both color and black & white, so can also be used for color matching. Printable comes in 2 halves that you tape together.

Christmas ornament shape matching. Includes 10 shapes. Can be done as a cut & paste activity, or cut out the shapes for your child.

Literacy Activities:

Letter matching, both uppercase and lowercase included. This can be a cut and paste activity or the letter can be glued to bottle caps. Kids can match uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or uppercase and lowercase letters to each other.

Letter Case Sorting. Use the same letters from the previous activity and sort all the uppercase letters on one tree and all the lowercase letters on the other tree.

Visual Discrimination Activities:

Visual Discrimination matching. Print 2 copies of the sheet, leave one copy intact and cut the other one. Match the loose cards to the images on the sheet.

Memory Game. Use the same cards as above. Print 2 copies of the cards, cut them all out, put them face down, and play a classic memory game. Use only a few cards for an easier game.

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Upper and Lowercase Letter Sort & Match Free Printable

You are going to love my next guest blogger, Tanya from Free Printable Rhyming & Cutting Activity, Huge List of Early Learning Themes and What Does my Child Need to Learn? (age 2 to grade 2). She is here today sharing a Free Printable Letter Sorting & Matching Activity!

One of the very first steps to learning to read is the ability to recognize both upper and lowercase letters. My daughter knows her uppercase letters, and she also knows many of her “baby letters” (as she likes to call them). But matching lowercase to uppercase letters is something she needs to practice, so I made this printable letter matching activity for her. I included a set of uppercase letters in a variety of fonts as well for children working on uppercase identification alone.

Each page works on five letters at a time. Just print out the uppercase letter page and corresponding lowercase (or uppercase) letters. Cut out the lowercase letters and spread them out. Your little one will choose one letter at a time and place it in the correct column.

The first page contains just vowels so the activity can double as a vowel-consonant lesson as well. There is no reason to try and do the entire alphabet in one sitting. My daughter was only interested in doing one page at a time.

You could laminate the letters and use it as a busy bag activity for a child who may be able to use it independently or do it alongside your child as an introduction to new letters.

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Tanya is a homeschooling mom of three who is passionate about hands-on learning. You can visit her at Finding the Teachable Moments where she shares learning activities and teaching tips for children age 2 to grade 2. You can also follow along with her on Pinterest and Facebook.

Educational Gift Guide for Preschoolers

The Holiday season is here and I'm sure many of you have already started your Holiday shopping. If you are still looking for ideas, this post is for you! I've put together a list of my favorite educational toys and gifts for preschoolers and young children. All of the products featured in this post are products we own or have been recommended by family and friends. Some of them are on our shopping list this year!

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Letter Learning:

1. Fisher Price Little People A to Z Learning Zoo Playset
An adorable play set with 26 animals, one for each letter of the alphabet, plus an interactive zoo habitat. This toy has many fun features and will get a lot of use! Learn letters & letter sounds, animal names & sounds and more! Capital letters only.
2. Leapfrog Letter Factory DVD
This movie is a must-have for children learning letter sounds. Each letter is a character with their own unique personality and sound, which makes them very easy to remember. Capital letters only.
3. Leapfrog Letter Factory Phonic and Numbers
This is a fun, interactive bucket of letter and number tiles that go along with the Letter Factory movie, although you don't need the movie to be able to play with it. Each tile teaches the name and sound of the letter or number. Capital letters only.
4. Melissa & Doug Alphabet Sound Puzzle
I am a big fan of wooden puzzles, and this one is unique in that it says the name of the letter and an object starting with that letter. Also has pictures of each object inside the letters. Capital letters only.
5. Melissa & Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet Puzzle
This puzzle does not make any sounds but is unique in the fact that it has both uppercase and lowercase letter pairs! It is quite a large puzzle and will keep kids occupied for a while matching 52 letters.
6. Alphabet Soup Sorters
Love this alphabet sorting set! Teaches both upper and lowercase letters, sounds, words, and builds vocabulary. Includes 26 cans with lids where kids can sort 7 cards for each letter. This is a great learning tool and there are many ways to use it - includes activity guide.
7. Letter Construction Activity Set
These are just so cool! Kids can actually build large letters by snapping together the different pieces. Both uppercase and lowercase letters. Includes cards for each letter showing how the finished letter looks like and the child figures out how to build it. Great hands-on way to learn letters!
8. Alphabet Cookies (lowercase)
A fun and yummy way to practice letters and building words! Comes with 4 progressive games that work on letter recognition, letter sounds, building words and early vocabulary. Will grow with your child. Can also be used for pretend play! Lowercase letters only.

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9. Melissa & Doug Numbers 1-20 Sound Puzzle
Just like the alphabet sound puzzle, this one says the number as you place the puzzle piece in. Also has pictures of objects inside the numbers that you can count.
10. Melissa & Doug Big Button Number Fun
This activity set features large colorful buttons of different shapes that kids place in the correct spots on the wooden boards to complete the pictures. Then count the buttons and place the correct number where it goes. This is great for learning shapes, numbers, counting, and the buttons can be used separately for shape or color sorting!
11. Bead and Pattern Card Set
This set includes colorful beads of different shapes, 2 lacing strings, and cards that shows kids how to make patterns, from simple to advanced. Great for fine motor skills and learning patterns!
12. Tangoes Junior
This is a large Tangram magnetic "tablet" that includes storage of the 7 magnetic pieces and 12 double sided puzzle cards. Comes in 2 difficulty levels so it will grow with your child. Great for spatial thinking, problem solving, math and reasoning skills!
13. Super Sorting Pie
This large "pie" includes 60 colorful fruit pieces that kids can move around using the included jumbo tweezers. There are so many ways to play and learn with these! Great for fine motor skills, counting, sorting, patterning and early math skills.
14. 1-10 Counting Cans
These are 10 large cans, similar to the alphabet soup sorting cans, that includes colorful fruits and veggies that kids can sort in the different containers while practicing counting, numbers and vocabulary.
15. Three Bear Family Sorting Activity
This huge set of 96 adorable bear counters come in 3 sizes and 6 colors, and include 22 math activities such as patterning, sorting by size, color, and more. These bears are so versatile and useful for many learning activities.

Geography:

16. Big World Map
It's never too early to get started on learning geography and the world around us! This large felt map is beautiful and includes 60 removable felt pieces such as world animals and labeling pieces.
17. Leapfrog Interactive World Map
For those of you that own the Leapfrog Leapreader, this is a large interactive map that speaks over 300 things, such as countries, continents, landmarks, fun facts and even different languages.
18. Montessori USA Wooden Puzzle
Large, hands-on wooden puzzle with small knobs to learn the US states. Also includes labeled and unlabeled control maps.
19. Hug-a-Planet
This is a large huggable, lovable plush planet that kids will love to play and learn with!
20. Safari Toob Around the World
Learn and play with world landmarks! Includes 10 famous structures: Leaning Tower of Pisa, Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Arch of Triumph, Statue of Liberty, Temple of Inscriptions, Pyramids of Giza, Empire State Building, Big Ben, and the Parthenon. The name of each landmark is printed at the bottom of each piece.
21. Safari Toob World Landmarks

Another set of 7 world landmarks, including Mount Rushmore, Great Wall of China, Stonehenge, Buddha of Lantau, Easter Island, Sphinx and Colosseum. The name of each landmark is printed at the bottom of each piece.

Architecture & Construction:

22. Picasso Tiles
I have heard amazing things about these magnetic tiles and will be buying some this year for sure! Picasso tiles are the same as Magna-tiles but a little cheaper, that's why I have them listed here. Kids can easily build beautiful, amazing structures. Encourages creativity, geometric and spatial thinking and learning about magnetic polars.
23. Lauri Pegs Building Set
Build structures out of pegs and platforms in this set that includes 100 pegs, a pegboard, and 17 different shaped platforms. Great for fine motor skills too!
24. Bristle Blocks
A great alternative to traditional blocks or legos, these bristle blocks are chunky, flexible pieces of different shapes and sizes that connect together by their bristles. Some bristle blocks actually move or spin to create vehicles, robots and other objects with moving parts.
25. Gears! Gears! Gears!
Another highly recommended product! Kids can create moving mechanical structures in this 95 piece set. Includes pillars, connectors and cranks. Great for many ages!

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Educational Gift Guide for Preschoolers

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Christmas Letter Matching Cards for Preschoolers

I can't believe Christmas is just around the corner! You can begin to get your little ones into the Christmas spirit by adding some fun holiday-themed learning activities to your homeschool preschool lessons. Preschoolers can practice matching letters with these Christmas-themed alphabet cards.

Christmas Letter Matching Cards

This no-prep activity is perfect for your Christmas homeschool preschool activities. All you need to do is print out the alphabet cards. Laminate them for durability. Then, cut them apart.

How to Use the Cards

Uppercase Letter Match:
Print out two sets of these alphabet cards. After printing and cutting out the cards, set the lowercase letters aside for a later time. Mix up the Santa cards (they're the only ones with uppercase letters). Spread them out on a table, and let your little ones begin matching the uppercase letters. Or, you could play this as a memory game. Turn all the cards facedown and have your preschooler flip over two at a time. When they find the match, they remove the cards from the table.

Lowercase Letter Match:
Use the cards the same as I described above. This time, however, use only the Christmas tree cards as they have lowercase letters on them.

Uppercase to Lowercase Letter Match:
Use the cards the same as I described above. However, this time, use all of the cards. Have your preschoolers match an uppercase (Santa) card to its corresponding lowercase (tree) card.

One more tip:

You could make this a self-correcting activity. To do so, you'll need some small stickers. Put matching stickers on the back of each matching set of cards. Then, after your child has made a match, they can turn the cards over to check themselves. I don't recommend this for the memory game, however. The goal of this activity is to learn to identify the letters of the alphabet. If you add a self-checking sticker to the cards (on the front), your child may begin looking for the matching sticker instead of the matching letter.

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This post was contributed by:

Tara from Homeschool Preschool
Tara is wife to Matt and homeschool momma of three. She has successfully homeschooled her oldest two, and is currently homeschooling her youngest. Though her children are older, she is always looking for an opportunity to create educational activities and content for young learners. She blogs about homeschooling, preschool activities, and other educational topics at Homeschool Preschool.

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Scarecrow Beginning Sounds Spin & Color Game

This engaging beginning sounds scarecrow activity will get EVERY student in your class motivated to learn their sounds and letters. I find that my ESL / ELL students enjoy these kinds of hands-on activities. It’s great practice for them. There is one spinner and two recording sheets with this activity, one is a beginning sounds picture matching activity and the other is matching the uppercase and lowercase letters.

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To prepare:

Print as many spinners as you need for each group of students. There is one spinner and two recording sheets. If the students aren’t familiar with spinning games, it’s a good idea to show them how to spin using a paper clip and a pencil. They will get the hang of it fast! Laminate the spinners and then print as many recording sheets as you need for the number of students in your class.

Scarecrow Spin and Color Beginning Sounds

I like having two laminated spinners for each group of 7 or 8 students. ESL students will need more time in general to look and identify the letter before they can begin to look for the matching beginning sound picture (I find this eliminates frustration for all students working on this activity).

The spinner is in color and the recording sheets are in black and white. This should save plenty of ink since the recording sheets will be the ones you will print many copies of. You can start with whichever recording sheet first.

I like getting my ESL students to work on the easier recording sheet first (matching the uppercase letter) to ease them into the ‘spin and color’ game format. So with the uppercase matching recording sheet, students will spin the spinner and identify the lowercase letter. They will then find the matching uppercase letter and color it. They will continue spinning and coloring until all letters are colored. For the beginning sounds recording sheet, they will spin and identify the letter they landed then look for the matching beginning sound picture and color it.

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This post was contributed by:

Yara from Sea of Knowledge
Founder of Sea of Knowledge, an ESL teacher with a passion for making learning fun and engaging. She loves creating fun activities that children and learners can benefit from. You can also find me on: Facebook and Pinterest.

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Gingerbread House Alphabet Matching Printable

Building, decorating and eating gingerbread houses are some of the fun activities my kids and I enjoy during the holiday season. To sneak in a little alphabet practice in between the festivities, try this free printable Gingerbread House Alphabet matching game!

Similar to my other Alphabet matching games, such as the Band-Aid Bear and Pizza Making, this Gingerbread House game includes both uppercase and lowercase letters, so your child can practice matching either uppercase to uppercase, lowercase to lowercase, or uppercase AND lowercase letters together, like my daughter did in the picture.

When you print out the gingerbread house, it will be divided into 2 halves. Just cut off the excess white space and tape the two sheets together.

This game can be done as a file folder game and reused many times, or as a one-time cutting and pasting activity!

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Easter Chick Eggs Alphabet Matching

Alphabet letter identification is an essential skill to develop in preschool. These fun Spring themed alphabet printables are just the perfect addition to any preschool classroom or homeschool. The kids will enjoy hunting for the ‘alphabet eggs’ and matching the letters onto their mats.

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To prepare:

Print a set of the alphabet egg cards and laminate them. There are 12 bird mats, and you can choose between uppercase and lowercase eggs. Once the alphabet Easter eggs are laminated, cut them apart and place them in a little basket.

Easter Egg Alphabet Match

This free printable activity is the perfect way to get preschool kids to practice identifying and matching their alphabet letters. Place the Easter egg alphabet letters in a basket along with some shredded paper to create ‘hay’. Choose one mat at a time, get the kids to identify the letters in that mat such as ‘A, B and C’ and then find the matching ‘eggs’ from the pile. You can differentiate this activity by using either uppercase or lowercase letters.

As an added extension activity, you can hide the eggs and sticky tape them in different places around the room. They look for the eggs as a team as they work on one mat at a time. You can also have the kids find the matching magnetic letters from the basket as they find their Easter eggs. I like adding magnetic letters to any literacy center as there are endless possibilities on how they can be used in literacy centers.

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Letter and Number Heart Puzzles

My daughter has always loved puzzles. She gets very excited when I come up with something new for her to put together and solve. With Valentine's Day coming up, I recently created this free printable set of heart puzzles for her to practice letters, letter sounds, numbers and counting.

These puzzles include two levels of difficulty:

2-piece heart puzzles:
- matching uppercase and lowercase letters
- matching number to quantity 1-15

3-piece heart puzzles:
- matching uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as pictures that begin with each letter sound
- matching number to quantity, and number words 1-15

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Pumpkin Patch Alphabet Matching Game

Celebrate the Fall season with a fun pumpkin themed alphabet activity, perfect for preschoolers to practice letter recognition.

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This FREE Pumpkin Alphabet game will get kids matching letters. It comes in both uppercase and lowercase versions, so you decide whether to match uppercase letters, lowercase letters, or uppercase and lowercase letters together!

Materials Needed:

I always recommend that you laminate and use these transparent velcro dots for kids to stick the pieces. Even though they are transparent, I would still place the dot next to the letter instead of directly over the letter, to make it easier for young kids to see the letters.

This pumpkin alphabet matching activity is perfect for the Fall season, perhaps after taking a field trip to a farm to go pumpkin picking!

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