Polar Bear ABC Matching Puzzles for PreK & Kindergarten
Learning letters of the alphabet is a skill that kids work on through Prek and kindergarten. They work on matching letters, sounds, and words.
Today’s free Polar bear ABC matching puzzles works on all those skills. You have letters, words, and picture matching for each letter of the alphabet in a four piece puzzle for each letter.
A simple hands-on way to work on letters with a fun arctic animal theme.
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I always get requests for working on beginning sounds and matching letters. So I wanted to put the two activities together. As a fun way to work on those letter activities.
These puzzles work on matching uppercase letters, lowercase letters, word, and picture. Each alphabet puzzle has four pieces. I recommend printing on cardstock and laminating the puzzles pieces.
You also have two building mats that can be used with this polar bear ABC matching puzzles. They come in two options for you to use.
Things to use with the Polar Bear Alphabet Matching Puzzles
I always have emails asking what we used in the post. And here is a link to everything we used. You can find these all on Amazon.
- printer
- white cardstock
- laminator
- laminating pouches
- sheet protectors
- dry erase markers
- Polar Bear ABC Find
- dot marker
Ways to use the Polar Bear ABC Matching Puzzles
The way these alphabet puzzles are made is so that you can match any combination that you want. All puzzle pieces fit together.
You could start with matching all four pieces of the puzzles. You can mix them up any way you want.
But you are not limited to just that. You can match them several other ways as well!
You can match two pieces of the puzzles. You could match the letters only, a letter and the picture, or the picture and words are just a few that you could do. You can match the alphabet bet puzzles any way you want!
You can also match three of the puzzle pieces. Which three can be up to you. I really wanted a flexible puzzle that could grow with kids as they learn their letters and alphabet sounds.
You can see how I matched the letters and the picture here.
You can see the letters and the word matching here. It really is simple and fun to mix up how you use the cards
Now there is a puzzle building mat that you can use. It was made so that the puzzles can be used to work on writing as well. It gives another step in learning their letters.
The first mat has a place to build the puzzles and then areas for writing the uppercase and lowercase letters. You can see that we put the page in a sheet protector and wrote the letters with a dry erase marker on it. This allows us to reuse the sheet.
The second puzzle mat has a space for writing the word and the letters. This allows for kids to grow with the puzzles and the mat.
If you want some more polar bear alphabet activities you can check out the Polar Bear ABC Find. It is a simple way to work on tracing letters and finding letters. You can do the puzzle and then the matching ABC finds.
Polar Bear ABC Letter Find
Uppercase and lowercase themed alphabet finds for kids to work on their letters. You can trace the letter then dot or color the icebergs with the polar bears on them.
What you will find in the Polar Bear ABC Letter Find:
- All 26 letters of the alphabet in Uppercase and lowercase options
- Tracing section for each letter
- Several letters to find and dot on the iceberg
- 52 pages of printables
- Price: $3.50
If you want to check out a free sample of this you can go here to check out a sample of the page.
What you will find in the Free Polar Bear ABC Matching Puzzles
- 4 piece puzzles for each letter of the alphabet
- The puzzles have uppercase letter, lowercase letter, picture with same beginning sound, word for the picture
- Building mat with word writing, uppercase letter practice, and lowercase letter practice
- Building mat with uppercase letter practice, and lowercase letter practice
- 12 pages
Check out these other ABC Puzzles & Matching Activities
Penguin ABC Matching Printable
ABC 4 Piece Puzzles for the Whole Alphabet
Check out these other Arctic Activities and printables
Arctic Animals No-Prep Weekly Packs – Prek to 4th Grade
Arctic Animals Themed Gross Motor Dice
Arctic Animals Easy Reader Book
Penguin & Polar Brear Number Dot Marker & Counting
Check out all the fun Polar Animal activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com