Are you looking for a fun and festive way to learn the alphabet and practice letter recognition in the classroom during the month of December? Get in the holiday spirit with this fantastic easy-to-prep Christmas Ornament ABC Scavenger Hunt. This alphabet activity will get your kids up and moving while they work on phonics skills, and it is perfect for your preschool Christmas theme activities!
Print out the recording sheet option, and you and your kids will have a fantastic time finding each letter of the alphabet. Use this with your kids as a fun letter sound or recognition activity.
This set is part of a yearlong series inspired by kids’ love of scavenger hunts and our desire to weave early learning into fun and engaging activities. These scavenger hunts can be used at home and in the classroom in many ways.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
This free sample of the Ornament ABC Scavenger Hunt includes:
- Large, colorful uppercase letter cards
- Color the Letter recording sheet
HOW TO PLAY
Grab a printable sheet and let your kids start hunting! Encourage kids to look throughout your home or classroom to find each alphabet letter as provided in this printable activity. You can even take this activity outside if the weather allows.
As kids find each letter, have them color it on their scavenger hunt page. This can be done independently or with a helper.
If your kids don’t love to color or you want to make this a reusable activity grab your favorite manipulative and have kids cover the letters instead of coloring them. Some ideas that would work great are:
- Mini erasers
- Translucent bingo counting chips like these
- Play dough “ornaments”-also a great way to add in some extra fine motor work
TIPS AND IDEAS FOR USE
This is a great way to differentiate instruction easily. You can specifically target letters that a child or group of children is working on learning. All students do not need to work on the same letters simultaneously. When in doubt, start with the letters in the child’s name.
WAYS TO USE THE LARGE LETTER CARDS:
- Use this as a whole or small group activity. You (or another student) pull a card from a stack and show it to students. Then, students find the letter on their recording sheet.
- Display the letters around the room. Then, use it as a literacy center option where students find the letters around the room and fill out their response sheets.
- If you let kids gather the letters, have them display them again for the next group. You can easily differentiate this option by having kids use different response sheet options.
- Use them as a deck of cards face down and have kids pull from the stack to mark the letter they’ve found on their sheet.
Complete the form below to get your free sample of the Ornament ABC Scavenger Hunt!
This free sample of the Ornaments ABC Scavenger hunt includes:
- Small printable uppercase letter cards in color
- Color It uppercase ABC recording sheet
The sample is perfect for kids learning to recognize uppercase letters.
If you would like additional options to differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters and have a variety of recording sheet options, then grab the full Ornaments ABC scavenger hunt set.
DIFFERENTIATE WITH THE FULL CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT ABC PACK
Need more variety? The full 39-page pack includes the following printables:
Large Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Cards (color & b/w)
Small Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Cards (color & b/w)
Recording Sheets:
- Color It Version (b/w only)
- Trace It Version 1
- Trace It Version 2
- Trace It Version 3
- Write It Version
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Also available on Teachers Pay Teachers.
