INSIDE: Heart Letter Match is a fun and easy literacy sensory bin activity for toddlers and preschoolers! Match the letter heat beads in this wonderful phonics letter recognition activity this Valentines Day.
My almost 3 year olds are really into letters right now and I am loving it. I have been doing lots of simple to set up literacy activities with them in order to take advantage of this window! I love when they start to recognize letters – especially the letters of their name – all around them. This fun letter heart matching sensory bin for Valentine’s Day was a great way to continue that interest!
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How to Set up Heart Letter Match Sensory Bin
Grab your sensory bin and fill it with white rice. Add the rose petals, purple, red and pink pom poms, purple, red and pink party necklaces.
Take your heart beads and use a black sharpie to write the lower case letters on the heart beads. Place the hearts into the sensory bin. When you are done and want to remove the letters from the heart beads you can remove them by using an alcohol wipe.
Take a sheet of white paper and write the corresponding upper cases randomly on the sheet. Use the colored sharpie pens to draw hearts around the letters.
Hand your little one tongs and invite them find the heart beads in the sensory bin and match them to the correct heart on the paper.
Such A Hit
So simple to set up but such a hit with my twins!
Other Modifications
There are lots of other ways you can modify this activity to meet your learning needs:
- Numbers
- Shapes
- Colours
My twins are almost 3 years old.
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Supplies
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- Sensory Bin
- Tongs
- Heart Beads
- White Rice
- Rose Petals
- Purple, Red or Pink pom poms
- Purple, Red or Pink party necklaces
- White paper
- Purple, Red or Pink sharpie
- Black sharpie
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