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How to Make Fun Literacy Activities with a Free Editable Hand Printable

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Use this free editable template to create custom and fun literacy activities for your kids. Teach letter recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, rhyming, word families, etc….


Here are some ideas for fun literacy activities using my editable handprint cards.  When you download the cards, you will be able to customize them with your own text so that you can tailor activities to meet your needs.

Use this free editable template to create custom and fun literacy activities for your kids. Teach letter recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, names, word families, rhyming, etc. Many activity ideas are included. The activities are perfect for literacy centers in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and home school classrooms.

Download Your Free Template

To customize your activity, you will first need to download the hand card template.  To get your document, click on the link below:

High Five Literacy Activity Template

Use this editable free printable to create custom and fun literacy activities for your kids. Teach letter recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, names, word families, rhyming, etc. Many activity ideas are included. The activities are perfect for your literacy centers in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and home school classroom. Spring, summer, winter, and fall....your kids will love these activities year round.

Add Text to Customize Your Literacy Activity

When you open the document you will see a page with 3 left hands and a page with 3 right hands.  In the middle of each hand you will see a blue rectangle.  Click on each blue rectangle and you can add your own text.  You can make an alphabet activity, a sight word activity, a name activity, a rhyming activity….whatever you like.  Having troubles with the document, you can try these troubleshooting tips.

Use this editable free printable to create custom and fun literacy activities for your kids. Teach letter recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, names, word families, rhyming, etc. Many activity ideas are included. The activities are perfect for your literacy centers in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and home school classroom. Spring, summer, winter, and fall....your kids will love these activities year round.

Print, Laminate, and Cut

After adding your custom text, it’s time to print the document.  Don’t worry… the blue rectangles will not be on the document when you print.  Laminate the pages if you wish and cut them out on the dotted lines.

Use this editable free printable to create custom and fun literacy activities for your kids. Teach letter recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, names, word families, rhyming, etc. Many activity ideas are included. The activities are perfect for your literacy centers in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and home school classroom. Spring, summer, winter, and fall....your kids will love these activities year round.

Literacy Activity Ideas

Here are just a few literacy activities that you can create with the hand cards:

Matching Games – Create a coordinating left and right hand pair and ask kids to find the match.  Kids can match

  • Uppercase to lowercase letters
  • uppercase to uppercase letters
  • lowercase to lowercase letters
  • sight words
  • names
  • words that start with the same letter
  • word families
  • rhyming words
  • names (first name to first name or first name to last name)

Use this editable free printable to create custom and fun literacy activities for your kids. Teach letter recognition, phonemic awareness, sight words, names, word families, rhyming, etc. Many activity ideas are included. The activities are perfect for your literacy centers in your preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and home school classroom. Spring, summer, winter, and fall....your kids will love these activities year round.

High Five Games – Attach prepared hand cards to a wall or a door so that kids can give a “high five” to a card.  As they “high five”, kids can:

  • name the letter on the card
  • make the sound associated with the letter
  • say the name on the card
  • say the word on the card

Kids can also “high five” cards that:

  • have words that start or end with a particular letter
  • contain letters in their name
  • have letters that are tall, have holes, have slanted lines, have tails, have dots, etc.

Interested in more hands-on learning activities?  Check out the following resources in my store:

editable name book activity
editable name practice activity mats

 

alphabet activity mats
pre-primer sight word activity mats

 

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Comments

  1. Lany says

    November 30, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    Great things to educate with. Thanks.

  2. Lori says

    October 23, 2018 at 8:38 pm

    I love your freebies! Thank you so much for sharing! I love how this can be customized for so many activities!

  3. Zulma says

    May 13, 2018 at 12:01 pm

    Thank you for your wonderful ideas

  4. Brenda says

    March 20, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    I love this idea! My students will get a kick out of this.
    I can use them in intervention groups using sight words,
    also can use them for my students struggling with the alphabet.

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