This set of Valentine Heart Letter Printables will help children practice matching letters and matching letters to beginning sounds.
I made these mats after finding a package of wooden hearts in a craft store. I painted them in pastel colors: pink, lavender, yellow, green, orange, and light blue, and I wrote letters on them. Then I made this collection of mats to go with the hearts.
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Making the Hearts
For this activity, you will need to make the heart manipulatives.
The wooden hearts are still available in some craft stores and are easy to make. If you do not wish to make the wooden hearts, just print out a copy of the colored hearts mat (download below) and cut them out and use those for the letter manipulatives
I painted the wooden hearts with pastel colored acrylic craft paint, wrote the letters of the alphabet on them, and sprayed over them with clear spray paint to protect them from getting dirty. If you will be using the colored mats I have included, make sure you write the correct letter on the matching colored heart:
- A, G, M, S, Y are pink
- B, H, N, T, Z are lavendar
- C, I, O, U are yellow
- D, J, P, V are light green
- E, K, Q, W are light orange
- F, L, R, X are light blue
Valentine Letter Matching Mats
Print out the mats in your choice of blackline or color. The colored mats help children find the matching letters more easily. Children will choose a heart, look at the letter on the heart, and match it to the same letter heart on the mat. Continue until all of the hearts are covered. Children can match uppercase to uppercase letters or uppercase to lowercase letters.
Some children may enjoy using the blackline mats as a recording sheet. They will match the colored wooden hearts to the mat by matching the letters, then use a crayon to color the heart on the mat the correct color.
Download: Valentine Letter Activities
Note: These are free printables, just click to download.
Valentine Letter Sounds Game
Print out the mats and laminate if you choose. Use the same heart manipulatives described in the above activity (wooden or printed).
To play this game, children identify the beginning sound in each picture, find the letter heart, and place it on the heart beside the picture. For example, for the picture “dog”, children would find a green heart with a D, and place the heart on the green heart on the mat. The color-coding helps them narrow down which letter belongs in each place (since there are only 4-5 letters for each color), and can serve as self-correction. If they choose a yellow heart for the word “dog”, they will realize the color doesn’t match and will need to try again.
There are two sets with letters A-Z: one set has short vowels with consonants and the other set has long vowels with consonants.
Download: Valentine Letter Sounds Set #1
Download: Valentine Letter Sounds Set #2
Post originally published January 2009.
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Thanks for your amazing site. Your willingness to share is blessing to the rest of us. Many, many, thanks.
Kate
Thanks! I love the new printables!
Great ideas!!!!! You are amazing!!!!!! Thanks so much
Karen,
Thank you for sharing. It always helps to have multiple minds trying to achieve the same thing. Love your ideas. We are using these today in class. I can never have too many ideas in my basket:) Keep up the good work your amazing!
Thank you so much for sharing these delightful Valentine activities. I am an SLP in an elementary school and will be using these with my PK, K and 1st grade students.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Love these! Thank you for the freebies!
Hi! I love your activities. They have helped me time and again. Unfortunately, the last few you have posted cut off on the top when I print. Any advice? Thank you!
Hi Jill, I’m not sure. You could try updating your Adobe Reader to see if that helps, but it sounds like it might be a printer issue to me. This is my printing help page with some things you could try: https://www.prekinders.com/printing-help/
Hi Karen! I tried my iPad and they came out wonderfully. Thanks again.
Thank you Karen, these are indeed lovely. Ever so thoughtful!!
These are wonderful and I have many ideas to utilize these for my preschooler and as language tools for my toddlers. Thank you so much for such a cute set of Valentine printables.
Thanks for sharing , it’s so amazing .
Thank you Karen for sharing. These downloads will help in school. May God continue to bless your ministry.