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Santa Letter Search Activity

Just in time for the holidays, you can grab this free printable Santa Letter Search Activity for your students! 

With this Christmas-themed resource, your pre-readers will have fun working learning the ABC’s and so much more!  

Santa Letter Recognition Activity

Santa Letter Search Activity:

Not only is this activity an engaging and entertaining way for your kids to practice matching capital and lowercase letters.

But, it will also help them to develop their fine motor skills, visual discrimination skills, and more! 

Christmas Letter Recognition Activity

Getting Ready To Use Santa Letter Search Activity:

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What’s Included:

  • 2 Santa Lowercase Letter Search Worksheets
  • 1 Santa Lowercase Letter Search Mat
  • 26 Christmas Cookie Capital Letter Cards

What Else Is Needed:

For a reproducible activity:

For a reusable activity:

To get this letter recognition activity ready for your kids, fill out the form at the bottom of this page.

After receiving the email with the printables, download and print the worksheets on copy paper.

Then, print the cards on white card stock. 

Letter Search

If you are using the mat, you will want to also print it on white card stock. 

After printing, laminate the mat and cards so your children can reuse this activity and cut the cards out.

Finally, make as many copies of the worksheets that you need for your students. 

How To Use The Santa Letter Search Activity:

To begin this alphabet activity, your pre-readers will pick a Christmas cookie card and identify the capital letter on it. 

Next, your kids will search for the matching lowercase letter on Santa’s beard. 

Letter Search Activity

When they find the letter, your preschoolers will color it in with a crayon or mark it with a bingo dauber.

If your children are using the mat or colored worksheet, they can cover the letters with white pom poms or cotton balls to look like Santa’s beard.

Learning the ABC's

They will then continue to select capital letter Christmas cookie cards until they have found all the matching lowercase letters on the mat or worksheet. 

This Christmas, your pre-readers will be engaged and entertained as they work on letter recognition with this Santa Letter Search Activity!

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Do you want to save this letter recognition resource for later? Pin this to your alphabet activities board on Pinterest and it’ll be here for when you’re ready!

Letter Recognition Activity

More Christmas Literacy Activities:

There are many other literacy activities that your kids can do this holiday. First, you can read Christmas books like these: 

Santa and the Goodnight Train by June Sobel

A World of Cookies for Santa by M.E. Furman

All the Things Santa Claus Will Never Do by Noe Carlain 

You can also pair this resource with more Santa-themed activities like these:

Santa Letter Recognition Activity

Letter to Santa Activity

Sight Word Santa Claus Activity from Books and Giggles

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As they walk into your classroom, you students can use these 20+ hands-on activities independently to learn and review literacy and math concepts.

While they are working, you can greet students, take attendance, collect homework, answer questions, and so much more!

Click on the link or the picture to learn more about all of the activities included in this bundle!

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