This owl letter tumble game can be used to practice matching letters. Withe this game, children can match uppercase to uppercase letters or uppercase to lowercase letters.
Letter matching is an important first step for children to learn to recognize letters of the alphabet. In this activity, children won’t have to name the letters, but they will use visual discrimination skills to match letters.
How to Make the Owl Letter Tumble Game
To make the game, you will need to print the owl letter mats, laminate if you choose, and cut them out. You will need some letter manipulatives, such as letter magnets or letter tiles.
You can print free paper letter tiles here.
Place the letters that children will need for their letter mat in a cup. For beginners, place 5 letters in a cup and pair it with one mat. That way, the children will only have to sort through 5 letters. For children who are more familiar with letters, you could give them 10 letters with 2 mats (or more).
How to Play the Owl Letter Tumble Game
Children will “tumble” the letters out (dump them out of the cup). To cut down on noise, give them a piece of felt to dump their cup of letters on.
Children will then look through their letters and match them to the owls on the letter mat.
You can also clip the letter mat to a magnetic board to be used with magnetic letters.
Download the Owl Letter Game Printables
This is a free printable. Just click to download!
Download: Owl Letter Tumble Game
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I am just starting to tutor my first K child. She is at the emergent stage and this game should help her out. Thank You so much.
Jeri
Thanks for your comment! I’m glad it will be helpful.
This is great website.
Thanks, Phyllis!
Love this! I printed it off and my 3 year old is asking me to play it “NOW, Mommy!”
Thank you!
Thanks, Jen! Glad he likes it!
Thanks for the awesome ideas on your site!
Wow, your site is fantastic! I’ve been looking for fun activities to reinforce my kindergartner’s new skills, and these are just wonderful. I really like the children’s prayer too- we’re going to start using it every day before we leave for school. You are a wonderful teacher. Every child should get the opportunity to have a teacher like you!
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Hi there,
I have become addicted to your site. Thank you soooo much for sharing all of your great ideas! I am a Transitional Kindergarten teacher in California and my class loves the centers. 🙂
Thanks for make this website and sharing with us, Karen. It’s a lot of great idea i found here…awesome work! 🙂
I am making your game boards, but mixing up the letters so they are not in order, for my kindergarten class. I love all of your ideas. Thank you.
Thanks for this great site! I have had fun doing many of these activities with my 3 year old at home this year!
Thank you Karen for sharing your wonderful and great ideas and resources; they are amazing! I’ll be using this with my girl at home and also at the learning centres I’ll be setting up.
Thanks, Jeanne! Glad you can use them!
I have been teaching Kindergarten for 5 years and soon I will be starting teaching 4’s and a couple of 3’s! Should I write their names around the room for them to identify with capital letters or capital and lower case letters? Thanks, Ana
First letter capital and the rest lowercase.
Thanks so much for shring your ideas. This activity will be great for my kinders coming in with limited literacy experiences.
Your site is really awesome~!! I love your all activities and thanks for sharing your great ideas 🙂
Loving this game (and other ideas on here) … I really needed something to help my Year 1’s with letter recognition. Many thanks
Great activities
You are truly blessed and full of Ideas, thank you so much for sharing your talents with all of us!!!!
I print the letters twice so the kids can macth them up. I do not have a color printer. They love to match the letters. Maybe some number match would be nice also. Thank you.
I’m so happy that I found your site. Your ideas are fantastic. I look forward to getting your emails and newsletters.
Thank you,
Diana
Thanks Diana! Glad you found me!
Thank you very much for these valuable resources
Just starting our Owls Unit at home tomorrow, perfectly useful & well-designed! Thank you for sharing these.
I’m a first year teacher, and this is such a fun game. Thank you.
Thanks for make this website and sharing with us, Karen. It’s a lot of great idea . I’m My first second semester I’m teacher. Pre-K. My children love to match the letters.
So cute and amazing owl printables
This really helps my 4+ and my students.Thanks for these amazing ideas!
Your resources are amazing. Thank you for sharing your free resources. I live in Eswatini (Southern Africa). The Dollar is too strong for us teachers. God Bless.
Unfortunately we are not teaching face-to-face.
Thank you Karen so very much for sharing such amazing free learning ideas! You make my teacher life so much better!! You are the BEST!!
Hello Karen,
I love your resources, thank you so much !
The red and blue letters you use are perfect for a montessori approch in class, where can I find them ?
Have a nice day,
Anne
Hi Anne,
Those letters are from Lakeshore Learning. Item numbers LC356 and LC357 for uppercase and lowercase.
Karen