Heart Letter Puzzles for Valentine's Day (Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Match Ups)

Let’s assemble heart letter puzzles for Valentine’s Day! Learning all those tricky uppercase and lowercase letters is hard for little learners, so let’s make it FUN and colorful! Adding some sensory experiences is a bonus.

Research tells us that play is the way kids learn best! I’m going to show you how to set up a play-based letter game that your kiddos will WANT to play again and again!

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Put it in a sensory tub!

I LOVE putting letter and number puzzles in a sensory tub! It just makes it fun and interactive for kiddos. This tub is just pink and red rice with a few sequins and heart gems thrown in. Add strawberry smelly oils to the rice, and it will awaken even more senses!

If you have three-year-olds, only use five to ten-letter puzzles (not the entire alphabet), so it’s not overwhelming.

For my pre-k kiddos who are ready, I hide all the letter puzzles or half of them.

Make their names!

Hide the letter puzzles needed to make a student’s name. Then they find the letters and identify them (and even say the sound the letter makes if they can). After they have found all the letters, students can create their names.

Trace it!

Now that they have found all the letters and completed the puzzles, they can trace the letters (aka fun handwriting). Writing letters is important for little learners. The more they practice writing the letters, the more their motor memory develops!

Don’t like worksheets? Laminate the page and have students trace the letters with their fingers or trace it with a dry-erase marker.

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