Identifying beginning sounds in words takes a lot of practice for preschoolers and kindergarteners.

Each puzzle includes 3 pieces.

One part has Santas sled and an uppercase and lowercase letter on it.

FREE Christmas Phonics Puzzles - this is a fun, easy to prepare Christmas learning activities perfect for kids and children in preschool, kindergarten,and first grade to practice alphabet letters, phonics, and beginning sounds

The other 2 parts have Christmas presents with images on each present that begin with the same letter.

Print the puzzles and cut them apart on the black borders.

Each puzzle is a square shape.

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So each puzzle had the purple and yellow present still attached.

The blue, green, and red presents were cut from the puzzle.

This way, my preschoolers could use this printable activity as independently as possible.

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It would make it easier to find just one match instead of 2.

Playing with just a few puzzles at the beginning will make the game fun, and less overwhelming.

Start with very familiar letters and sounds.

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Another idea is to just start with the letters in the childs name.

This way, the initial sound letter matching Christmas puzzles are not getting mixed up.

This allows a small group to work together without the puzzles going everywhere.

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No matter how the puzzles are played, lots of learning skills are being focused on and practiced!

Grab your set of free printable initial sound letter matching Christmas puzzles HERE.

You will love these fun christmas printable pages to work on phonics skills and tracing letters!

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