These spring alphabet clip cards are the perfect way for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice letter recognition and matching capital and lowercase letters. Students can also practice building fine motor skills by using clips to mark each letter.

What is Included:

There are 4 clip cards for each letter of the alphabet. Activities include matching the capital letter to a matching capital letter, matching a lowercase letter to the matching lowercase letter and matching capital letters with the correct lowercase letters.

How to Use:

Students will take one clip card, look at the letter on the flower card and then clip the letter that matches. The teach may choose to use small manipulatives, like mini erasers, bingo chips or counters to mark each correct response. The cards can also be laminated for students to use dry erase markers to mark correct answers.

Where to Use:

• Literacy Center
• Morning Tubs or Baskets

Skills Assessed

• Recognizing and identifying capital and lowercase letters
• Matching a capital or lowercase letter to their letter counterpart

These spring letter clip cards are a low prep option for teachers to give to students to complete. The cards simply need to be printed and cut apart before being placed inside a learning station.

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Alphabet Clip Cards for All Seasons

Help each butterfly find its favorite flower by tracing the path from the butterfly to the flower on these tracing cards with a spring or insect theme. There are two sets of tracing line with 52 cards each (for a total of 104 cards) with a variety of tracing lines including curves, loops, zig zags and more!

These tracing cards give students practice with handwriting by having them trace a variety of lines. They help guide students to follow the line from left to right to mimic how students will eventually learn to write words and sentences and these lines allow students to practice pen control.

There are two sets of cards in this product:

• The first set has a decorative boarder where you can print on white paper.
• The second set has no border so you can print on colored paper and save on ink!

Ways to Use

• Writing Center
• Fine Motor Center
• Write and Wipe Activity
• Morning Tub or Basket
• Independent Center
• Small Group Activity
• Table Top Center

These fine motor cards and perfect for a writing center. By laminating each card or placing the full pages in page protectors you can create a write and wipe activity and use them over and over.

You can turn these cards into a fine motor center by adding mini erasers or other small objects for students to place along the line. Add tongs for more fine motor fun! You can also use cotton swabs and paint to dot the lines.

Skills Targeted:

• Following a line by tracing (tracing skills)
• Moving from left to write when writing
• Pencil control
• Hand eye coordination
• Building fine motor skills

These tracing cards and the markers or manipulatives used to complete them can be stored in a pencil box for easy set up, clean up and storage.

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These alphabet playdough mats are a hands on activity for each letter. Practice letter recognition and letter tracing with this spring themed preschool or kindergarten activity which features pictures of general spring themes, flowers and birds. Each mat features a large letter for students to build out of playdough and at the bottom of each page are tracing lines for students to practice writing the word represented by the picture. There is a color set and a black and white set.

What is included:

A - Ant

B - Bee, Butterfly, Bud, Basket

C - Caterpillar

D - Dragonflu

E - Egg

F - Flower. Frog

G - Grasshopper

H - Hive

I - Insect

J - Jump

K - Kite

L - Ladybug

M - Mouse

N - Nest

O - Open Window

P - Pond

Q - Quail

R - Rain, Raincoat

S - Snail

T - Tree, Tadpole

U - Umbrella

V - Vase

W - Worm

X - Xenops

Y - Yellow Sunflower

Z - Zinnia

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These flower themed letter and number cards and puzzles are a great spring activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Students can practice letter and number recognition by matching capital and lowercase letters, matching numbers and number words up to 20, as well as matching numbers and pictures up to 10.

What is Included:

• Alphabet cards for capital and lowercase letters
• Number cards for numbers 1-20 and number words.
• 2 piece alphabet puzzles that match capital and lowercase letters

Students will love the hands on activities in this resource. There are a variety of different games and activities that students can complete independently or with a partner.

Ways to Use the Cards:

• Matching Game: Match capital and lowercase letters or numbers to the number words.
• Fishing Game: Attach a paper clip to the card and use a magnetic fishing pole to "catch" the letters or numbers.
• Salt/Sand Tray: Use these cards as a model to show students what to write in the sand.
• Letter or Number Hunts: Have students find the letters or numbers that you have hidden around the room.
• ABC Order or Number Order: Have students place letters or numbers in the correct order.
• Pocket Chart Game: Place the cards into a pocket chart and hide a picture behind one of the cards. Have students guess which card the hidden picture is behind.

With a wide variety of uses, these cards will allow students to be engaged with learning their letters and numbers, as well as learning number words and practice counting.

How to Use the Puzzles

• Task Box Activities
• Math Centers
• Morning Baskets or Tubs

All of the cards and puzzles in this resource can be stored in task boxes. This allows teachers to have an easy to set up activity that students can easily clean and put away themselves.

Skills Assessed:

• Number Recognition
• Counting to 10
• Number Words to 20
• Number Order
• Letter Recognition
• Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
• Letter Order

Each part of this resource is low prep. They all just need to be printed out and cut apart before use. The teacher may choose to laminate the pieces for durability.

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Seasonal Alphabet Card Games and Puzzles

Where is the ladybug? This spring alphabet game is great for students who are practicing letter sounds or letter recognition. This game can be used in a pocket chart or on a table top for a Preschool, Pre-k or Kindergarten classroom.

Ways to Use

• small group game
• whole class game
• circle time game
• student led literacy center
• one on one instruction to target specific letters for struggling students

How to Play

Where's the Ladybug? is a game for centers or whole group instruction where a ladybug is hidden behind a flower. A poem is chanted where the student(s) must say the letter they think the ladybug is behind. Once guessed, the letter is removed. If the ladybug is behind the flower, then the ladybug must be hidden again to play further. If the ladybug is not behind the flower, then the poem is chanted again and a new letter is guessed. This game has letters in both capital and lowercase forms.

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These spring number 1-20 cards are perfect for practicing counting up to 20. There are two sets of cards that provide two levels of differentiated practice. One set of cards have the number and the tens frames are blank so students must correctly count to the number by placing manipulatives in the tens frames. The other set has the tens frames already marked with recycle signs so students who need a little extra guidance can simply over lay their counters to complete the card.

This packet contains spring themed literacy and math centers as well as art templates to complement any spring themed classroom. There are a wide variety of activities and centers for children to engage in as they learn about spring.

What is Included?

Pages 2-5: Word Wall Cards

Page 6: Matching or Concentration Game cards: Print the page out twice to create the game.

Pages 7-8: Letter Mazes

Pages 9-10: Number Mazes (1-10 and 1-20)

Pages 11-14: Emergent Reader

Page 15: Roll and Cover Counting Game

Page 16: Build it Up Counting Game

Page 17: Cut and Paste Counting page.

Page 18: Counting with 5 frames.

Page 19: Counting with 10 frames.

Page 20: Simple addition page

Page 21: Graphing Page

Page 22: Pattern Page

Page 23: Fill in the missing number

Page 24: Fill in the missing letter

Page 25: Greater than, less than and equal too practice with pictures.

Pages 26-30 – Tens Frames 1-10 Matching Center

Pages 31-32: Patterns center

Page 33-35: Art templates

Page 36: Clip the flower that does not belong

Page 37: Counting to10 puzzles

Page 38: Sort flowers from big to small

Pages 39-40: Rhyming Picture Match

Page 41: Letter Matching

Page 42: Number Order

Page 43: Letter Sorting – Capital and Lowercase Letters

Page 44-46: Tracing Practice

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Let students get up and move as they use the flower shaped color spy mats to find colors around their classroom or playground.

Make these mats by printing on card stock and cutting the shapes on dotted lines. Students will hold the mat up to the object that is the correct color.

Colors included:

red

orange

yellow

green

blue

purple/violet

pink

black

white

brown

gray/grey

A fun craft for kindergarten and preschool children to complete to help learn about a word that starts with the letter B. This would make a wonderful addition to a letter of the week or a butterfly themed unit. There are step by step instructions and pictures to show how to complete the craft.