Preschool Reading:

Alphabet Match Game

 

Today's Snack: It's fun to pick up little cubes of bread with a clothespin as a sort of chopstick. Don't pinch your fingers! You can even serve a little melted cheese to dip the cubes in. Just be sure to wash the clothespins with soap and water and let dry for the next time you use them. Drink some apple juice, too.

 

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Supplies:

26 clothespins | scraps of paper or cardstock | tape

Magazine pictures of items that go with each letter of the alphabet

 

 

First, go through old magazines and catalogs. Cut out pictures of items whose starting sounds are the 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example:

 

Apple

Banana

Carrot

Dog

 

. . . and so forth. It takes time to find these, so consider laminating them and trimming them, for use over and over and over.

 

Now write the 26 alphabet letters on small scraps of paper or cardstock, and tape each one to a different clothespin.

 

To play, lay the clothespins and pictures out, and let the children find the picture with the beginning sound of each alphabet letter, and clip the clothespin and the picture together.