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Letter Sound Matching Game

by Angela Thayer 9 Comments

I love Target! Every time I’m there, I browse their dollar section. Last week, I found some adorable foam eggs! I grabbed a few packs and I’m so glad I did because they were sold out a few days later! When I snagged these eggs, I thought they would make a great alphabet letter matching game, but I realized we’ve done a lot of matching games (like this one) and my son is working more on beginning letter sounds. So, I created a letter sound matching game for my 4-year-old.

Foam Eggs at Target!

For this game, I put the letter name on the top part of the egg and its beginning letter sound picture on the bottom. You would not need to do all 26 letters, but choose a handful of letter sounds to focus on.

To download a copy of these letters and pictures, click here —>  Letter Sound Matching Game

Then just cut out the letters and pictures and use glue or double-sided tape to adhere them to the egg pieces.

Letter Sound Game

After you have the eggs ready, place them face-down.

Letter Sound Matching Game

Then flip over 2 egg pieces at a time and see if you find a letter match! Keep playing until you find all the matches. The person with the most matches wins.

Identifying beginning letter sounds is an important skill for preschoolers to work on. It is not always an easy concept for kids to understand. If your child struggles with identifying the beginning sounds in words, then this would be a good game to try!

He enjoyed putting the egg pieces together when he found a match!

Letter B Match

I loved hearing my preschooler say “elephant–‘e’, ‘e’, it has an ‘e’ sound”.

Letter match

Letter Sound Matching Game

It was a fun game that we will be playing frequently!!

We also created an Easter craft with these foam shapes. I picked up bunnies and chicks in the dollar section of Target for this craft.  Troy decorated the egg pieces and then we glued it onto construction paper with a chick in the middle.  We added Easter grass to the bottom and a cute lil’ bunny on the side.

Easter Craft

So get yourself to Target and pick up some of these foam shapes before they are gone!!

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  1. Lisa says

    October 16, 2019 at 2:41 pm

    Do you remember, by chance, where you got the foam eggs? I love this idea! I teach special education and have some kiddos who are struggling with sounds. I can’t wait to try this with them 🙂

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    • Angela Thayer says

      October 17, 2019 at 12:37 pm

      I got them from the Target dollar section, but it was around Easter a couple years ago. I’m sorry!

      Reply
  2. Dannie says

    May 14, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    This is a great idea! Simple but fun. I’m going to try this at home with my boy.

    I’d like to link to it from Teach Your Monster to Read’s blog if that is OK?

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    • Angela Thayer says

      May 14, 2014 at 8:41 pm

      Thank you! Yes, you may link to this post! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Siobhan says

    March 28, 2014 at 10:32 am

    I have been trawling the internet for fun stuff to teach English to French preschoolers and your site is exactly what I was looking for! Already printed off the weather chart and just made my alphabet eggs!! Thank you so much for your inspiration!!

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  4. sava says

    March 19, 2014 at 11:18 pm

    Im really happy to find your web site.great work and ideas!!!!

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  5. Julie says

    March 18, 2014 at 12:17 pm

    Love this idea! Simple yet fun for kids. Angela, would you consider making a short i picture. (Noticed the other vowels were all short) Maybe 5 long vowel pictures too?
    Thanks!

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    • Angela Thayer says

      March 18, 2014 at 8:16 pm

      Sure! I will work on it and let you know when I get it done. Great suggestion!

      Reply
    • Angela Thayer says

      April 15, 2014 at 3:32 am

      Hi Julie!! I updated the PDF so it does include the vowel sounds. Hope that is helpful to you! 🙂
      Angela Thayer recently posted…Fine Motor Activity with ChicksMy Profile

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