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Alphabet Activities: Snowman Mitten Match

January 21, 2015 • 13 Comments

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Our Playful Preschool Series  theme this week is snowmen. We are practicing letter recognition this week with a fun and playful indoor alphabet activity.

Snowman Alphabet Activity

An alphabet activity with a snowman theme for this week's #playfulpreschool ideas for snowmen!

Why We Chose This Activity

My kids are eagerly awaiting another snowstorm so they can build a snowman outside.  In the meantime, we made an indoor snowman!

My soon to be 3 year-old knows only two letters so we are working on letter identification.  My 4 year-old knows his letters so he enjoys being the helper.  I also extended the activity for him that you will see below.

Setting Up and Playing

1.  On a large piece of paper, draw a snowman and make sure to give him two arms.

2.  Place a piece of double stick tape at the end of each arm.  The tape will help hold the mittens in place.  It also works well for easy removal to change the mittens.

mittens for alphabet matching

3.  Cut out mittens from construction paper.  Write a letter on each mitten.  Each pair of mittens should include one lowercase letter and the corresponding uppercase letter.  We used the same color mittens for corresponding letters.

That is it!  You are ready to play.

Lay all the mittens out and have your child find a matching pair.  For children who do not know very many of their letters, I would only pick about five sets for this activity.

placing mittens on the snowman

When your child has found a matching pair, they stick them on the snowman.

Continue to change the snowman’s mittens until all the pairs have been used.

For my 4 year-old, I said a winter themed word and he had to find the pair of mittens that represented the beginning sound of the word.  This was a great way to extend the activity for him.

We just love fun and playful alphabet activities!

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Keep reading.  Visit the links below for more great snowmen activities from the #playfulpreschool team!

Snowman Literacy Activities for Preschool:

Snowman Mitten Match Alphabet Activity by Growing Book by Book
Snowman Vocabulary Activities for Preschool by The Educators’ Spin On It
Snowman at Night-Preschool Craft by Capri + 3

Snowman Math Activities for Preschool:

Snowman Peg and Count by Rainy Day Mum
Snowman Sensory and Creative Exploration Activities for Preschool:
Make a Snowman from Things in the Kitchen! by Powerful Mothering
Melted Snowman Painting by Learning 2 Walk
Build a Snowman Indoors by Mom Inspired Life
Baked Cotton Ball Snowman Craft by Still Playing School
Build a Snowman Creativity Prompt by Raising Lifelong Learners

Snowman Snack Ideas:

Do you wanna Build a Snowman,Treat! by Tiny Tots Adventures
Snowman Snack Ideas by Fun-A-Day

P.S. Need more reading winter ideas? Get our Winter Preschool Literacy Unit full of reading and literacy activities.—>Get the Winter Preschool Literacy Unit

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Colleen Kessler says

    January 21, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    I love this idea! I know that my preschooler will enjoy it.

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  2. Danielle says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:05 am

    We are working on letter pairs too. Great idea! I really like the beginning sounds extension too.

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  3. Theresa (Capri + 3) says

    January 21, 2015 at 8:59 am

    What an inviting way to work on upper and lowercase letter matching. Love it!

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  4. Nicolette Roux says

    January 21, 2015 at 8:44 am

    what a great idea!

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  5. Natasha says

    January 21, 2015 at 7:43 am

    This is such a cute idea for working on lower and uppercase letters!

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  6. Amanda says

    January 21, 2015 at 5:35 am

    Sooo cute! We are working on letter pairs right now too!

    Reply

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