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4-Year-Olds | Letter Knowledge
<b>Prep: 10–15 Minutes | Activity Time: 15–20 Minutes </b></p>\r\n<p>This activity lets your child have some fine motor fun while reinforcing letter knowledge. Your child will match uppercase to lowercase letters using clothespins and cardboard.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-c8d1e4e338 class=cmp-text>
Prep: 10–15 Minutes | Activity Time: 15–20 MinutesÂ
This activity lets your child have some fine motor fun while reinforcing letter knowledge. Your child will match uppercase to lowercase letters using clothespins and cardboard.
\r\n<li>12-by-12-inch poster board</li>\r\n<li>Scissors</li>\r\n<li>26 clothespins</li>\r\n<li>Permanent marker</li>\r\n<li>Basket</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n"}} id=text-d6b32a7073 class=cmp-text>
- 12-by-12-inch poster board
- Scissors
- 26 clothespins
- Permanent marker
- Basket
<b>Step 1:</b> Write the uppercase letter of all 26 letters in order of the alphabet around the bottom edges of the poster board square (six to seven letters per side). Write the lowercase letters on the 26 clothespins. Make sure that the uppercase letters on the poster board and the letters on the clothespins both face the same direction when attached. </p>\r\n<p><b>Step 2: </b>Place clothespins in a basket. Ask your child to pick a clothespin from the basket, locate the uppercase letter that matches it and attach the clothespin under the corresponding letter. Ask your child to say the letter name and the letter sound at the same time.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-60d2a61e83 class=cmp-text>
Step 1: Write the uppercase letter of all 26 letters in order of the alphabet around the bottom edges of the poster board square (six to seven letters per side). Write the lowercase letters on the 26 clothespins. Make sure that the uppercase letters on the poster board and the letters on the clothespins both face the same direction when attached.Â
Step 2: Place clothespins in a basket. Ask your child to pick a clothespin from the basket, locate the uppercase letter that matches it and attach the clothespin under the corresponding letter. Ask your child to say the letter name and the letter sound at the same time.
<b>Step 1: To make it easier, use just uppercase letters for matching.</b> Write the uppercase letter of all 26 letters in order of the alphabet around the bottom edges of the poster board square. Write the uppercase letters on the 26 clothespins. Make sure that the uppercase letters on the poster board and the letters on the clothespins both face the same direction when affixed. </p>\r\n<p><b>Step 2:</b> Place clothespins in a basket. Ask your child to pick a clothespin from the basket and attach the clothespin under the matching letter.</p>\r\n"}} id=text-6f2859257e class=cmp-text>
Step 1: To make it easier, use just uppercase letters for matching. Write the uppercase letter of all 26 letters in order of the alphabet around the bottom edges of the poster board square. Write the uppercase letters on the 26 clothespins. Make sure that the uppercase letters on the poster board and the letters on the clothespins both face the same direction when affixed.Â
Step 2: Place clothespins in a basket. Ask your child to pick a clothespin from the basket and attach the clothespin under the matching letter.
<b>Step 1: </b>Write the uppercase letter of all 26 letters in order of the alphabet around the bottom edges of the poster board square (six to seven letters per side). Write the lowercase letters on the 26 clothespins. Make sure that the uppercase letters on the poster board and the letters on the clothespins both face the same direction when attached. </p>\r\n<p><b>Step 2:</b> Place clothespins in a basket. Ask your child to pick a clothespin from the basket, locate the uppercase letter that matches it and attach the clothespin under the corresponding letter. Ask your child to say the letter name and the letter sound at the same time.</p>\r\n<p><b>Step 3: To add even more of a challenge, ask your child to think of an object that begins with each letter sound and draw the picture on the poster board next to the corresponding letter.</b></p>\r\n"}} id=text-08b92566c8 class=cmp-text>
Step 1: Write the uppercase letter of all 26 letters in order of the alphabet around the bottom edges of the poster board square (six to seven letters per side). Write the lowercase letters on the 26 clothespins. Make sure that the uppercase letters on the poster board and the letters on the clothespins both face the same direction when attached.Â
Step 2: Place clothespins in a basket. Ask your child to pick a clothespin from the basket, locate the uppercase letter that matches it and attach the clothespin under the corresponding letter. Ask your child to say the letter name and the letter sound at the same time.
Step 3: To add even more of a challenge, ask your child to think of an object that begins with each letter sound and draw the picture on the poster board next to the corresponding letter.