This letter-matching activity has been a HUGE hit with my preschooler! It’s great for kinesthetic learners or any little one who loves puzzles or matching. And it has really improved her ability to identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
Read: Teaching Your Preschooler to Read – Why It’s OK to Start Early
We go through lots of bottled water so I had no trouble coming up with 26 bottle caps. My only wish is that the brand we prefer used white caps. But it actually hasn’t seemed to matter for purposes of the activity.
First, collect some caps and write the uppercase letters on them, print out your free printable lowercase mat, and go! You can work through it with them, or if you want it to be a more independent activity you can write the lowercase (answer) on the inside of the cap so they can check their own guesses.
The ability to quickly identify lowercase letters is so important as you work on pre-reading skills since almost every letter they read will be lowercase, yet so many products for young children only display uppercase letters. This letter-matching activity has made a super-fun addition to our preschool binder. Find out how to put your binder together for free here!
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For more ideas to fill up your binder, check out our Build Your Preschool Binder board on Pinterest for links to more fun, free printables for your preschooler.
I just joined your wonderful site.
I am frustrated – I am trying to download the upper and lower letters for bottle caps.
I sign in with my password and it goes back to the sign in !
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for your time and help.
Ethelyn
Hi, Ethelyn.
I’m sorry you’re experiencing trouble. Did you check to make sure your caps lock is not on? If you e-mail me at vida [at] mercerhomeschooling [dot] com I’d be happy to e-mail you the download directly and make sure that there was no error when you signed up.
Thank you!
Vida
Such a simple and cute idea! Pinned to my Homeschooling board. Thanks for sharing at Fridays Unfolded!
Thank you so much for stopping by and pinning, Alison!