Back-to-School Letter Search Activity

Grab this free printable Back-to-School Letter Search Activity for your kids to do at the beginning of the new school year!

School literacy activities like this one are a fun, hands-on way for your preschoolers and kindergarteners to practice identifying letters of the alphabet.

Your students will work on recognizing letters by their shapes and matching capital and lowercase letters as they search for letters on the pencil.

Not only will your children work on letter recognition during this activity but they will develop their visual discrimination skills too.

Visual discrimination skills are important for young learners to develop because they help children to understand and process visual information.

Developing visual discrimination skills help kids to become better readers and writers. It also helps them to understand and remember what they see.

What You'll Find On This Page

Getting Ready to Use the Back-to-School Find the Letter Activity:

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What’s Included:

2 Pencil Capital Letter Search Worksheets
1 Pencil Capital Letter Search Mat
26 Smart Cookies Lowercase Letter Cards

What Else Is Needed:

For a reproducible activity:

White Copy Paper
Scissors
Crayons
Dot Markers

For a reusable activity:

White Card Stock
Scissors
Laminator
Laminating Pouches
Small Manipulatives

To prepare this letter recognition activity for your young learners, fill out the form at the bottom of the page..

Next, download and print the worksheet or mat that you want to use on copy paper or card stock.

Then, print the letter cards on card stock and cut them apart.

You may also want to laminate the mat and cards if your children are going to reuse this activity.

How to Use the Back-to-School Letter Recognition Activity:

For this letter hunt activity, your preschoolers and kindergarteners will select a smart cookie card and identify the lowercase letter on it.

Next, they will look for the matching capital letter on the pencil worksheet and color it with crayons or mark it with a dot marker.

If your students are using the colored worksheet or mat, they can mark the letters by covering them with small manipulatives such as mini erasers.

They will then continue to pick cards and find the letters on the worksheet or mat until they have found them all.

This Back-to-School Letter Search Activity is a fun way for your kids to practice identifying capital and lowercase letters at the beginning of the school year.