Free Pumpkin Beginning Sound Clip Cards
Looking for engaging fall letter recognition activities? These free pumpkin beginning sound clip cards focus on letter identification and beginning sounds, making them a great tool for preschool literacy.
Perfect for little learners, these clip cards not only help with alphabet recognition but also strengthen fine motor skills as children use clothespins to clip onto the correct letters or sounds. Grab your free pumpkin letter activity download at the end of this post and add a fun, educational fall activity to your lesson plans!
These pumpkin alphabet clip cards are perfect for incorporating seasonal fun into your letter recognition activities. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or homeschooler, these cards offer an easy and interactive way for preschoolers to practice their letters and sounds while also improving their fine motor skills.
Best of all, they can be used in preschool literacy centers, small groups, or one-on-one instruction, making them a versatile tool for early literacy development and learning letter sound recognition.
Plus, who doesn’t love a fun fall activity that doubles as an educational tool? Keep reading to learn more about how to use these free pumpkin clip cards and how they can benefit your preschoolers.
Alphabet Beginning Sounds
Teaching alphabet beginning sounds is a crucial step in helping preschoolers develop strong phonemic awareness, which is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words.
Understanding the connection between letters and sounds is the foundation for decoding. Using interactive tools like pumpkin alphabet clip cards can make this process more enjoyable and hands-on for young learners. They’ll be learning how to read without even realizing it!
Here are some other great articles to read about beginning sound practice and it’s importance in preschool.
- Pre K Activities to Teach Letter Recognition
- Learning ABCs: Letter Recognition Activities For Kindergarten
- Strategies for Teaching Letter Recognition in Preschool
- How To Teach Preschool Letter Recognition
With these clip cards, preschoolers can practice matching each letter with its corresponding beginning sound. For example, when presented with a card featuring the letter “B,” children can be encouraged to say words like “bat” or “ball,” helping them to reinforce the connection between the letter and its sound. This activity not only helps with letter recognition but also builds a strong understanding of the sounds that each letter makes. This hands-on approach to learning beginning sounds gives preschoolers the chance to practice and solidify these essential skills in a fun and engaging way.
Pumpkin Beginning Sound Clip Cards
Pumpkin activities are a given while doing fall preschool activities. Now, it’s time to add some beginning sound activities to your circle time or preschool centers. Go on and add these pumpkin beginning sound clip cards to your lesson plans for preschoolers this fall.
What’s Included
This fall alphabet printable includes one strip for each letter of the alphabet. With short vowel sounds for each of the vowels, this beginning sound practice activity is perfect for preschool and kindergarten alike. It makes for a great hands on activity for your fall literacy centers too!
Additional Materials
- free beginning sound clip cards printable
- clothespins
I offered my preschoolers clothespins for these clip cards. Using clothing pins works on their fine motor skills by testing their pincer grasp. Some younger preschoolers find clothing pins to be frustrating and fell like they get in the way of doing the activity. In that case, you can offer transparent counters to place over each letter.
The Set Up
Print the clip cards on heavy card stock and laminate if desired. Then cut apart and set out on a tray with some clothing pins. Now invite your preschooler to join you in matching some alphabet animals with their beginning sound letters.
How to Use Beginning Sound Clip Cards
This is just one activity you can add to your fall activities for preschoolers. In fact, being a pumpkin theme, they can easily be used as a Thanksgiving activity for preschoolers, too! Either way, it’s a super fun alphabet activity with a cute pumpkin theme.
And, the cards feature my animal alphabet which is included in my Daily Lessons in Preschool Literacy Curriculum!
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Whenever I introduce beginning sound activities like this one, I walk my preschoolers through everything about the clip cards. I point out the cute pumpkins at the top, and talk about how these pumpkins are like the others we are studying in our preschool pumpkin theme. They point out the animal on each card, and we talk about the letters that go down the strip.
Then I model for my preschoolers exactly how to do the cards. During this process, I think aloud so my preschoolers can hear how I figure it out.
I might say something like,
Hmmm…this card has an alligator on it. I hear /a/ at the beginning of alligator. I’m trying to remember, which letter makes the /a/ sound?
Oh yeah! Letter A says /a/! I see big A right here on the card so I’m going to put a clip on that letter. Now I need to find small a.
It’s a lot of talking. But it is so effective and it helps preschoolers hear how they can do their own problem solving while figuring out which letters to clip.
It’s ok for preschoolers to use an alphabet print out so they can more easily find the matching upper and lower case letters.
Some preschoolers may struggle with this activity since identifying beginning sounds is developmental. When that happens, I just offer my preschoolers the animal friends alphabet mats that are included in my Daily Lessons in Preschool Literacy Curriculum.
Pumpkin Books for Preschoolers
Any preschool theme can be amped up by some high quality picture books to read to your preschoolers during circle time. Here are some of our favorite books that will also pair nicely with pumpkin alphabet activities like these clip cards.
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Silverman, Erica (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Steven Kroll (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 09/01/1993 (Publication Date) – Cartwheel Books (Publisher)
- Schulz, Charles M. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 07/28/2015 (Publication Date) – Simon Spotlight (Publisher)
- Cooper, Helen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 32 Pages – 09/06/2005 (Publication Date) – Square Fish (Publisher)
- Hardcover Book
- Higgs, Liz Curtis (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Hardcover Book
- Higgs, Liz Curtis (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Hubbell, Will (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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Pumpkin Alphabet Activities
Add some of these free fall printable activities to your preschool pumpkin theme.
- Free Pumpkin Alphabet Matching Cards
- Find and Cover Pumpkin Letter Mats
- Pumpkin Alphabet Sensory Bin
- Alphabet Letter Tracing Pumpkins
Beginning Sound Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Alphabet Tracing Cards with Beginning Sounds
- Beginning Sound Worksheets
- Initial Letter Sound Worksheets
Get Your Free Pumpkin Beginning Sound Activity Here
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I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.