Today I have a fun fingerprint activity for kindergarten. Also, grab my other tips, ideas, and crafts for kindergarten on my page Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum.
I am all for creating your own curriculum, especially in the early years like kindergarten.
While each child develops at their own pace, I have found that learning comes much more naturally to a child who enjoys what they are learning.
Too, when learning is fun children are engaged.
You can use a workbook or worksheets.
Or you can make it even more interesting and let your child have more ownership in creating their own collection of ABCs
So, today we’re creating an ABC flip book fingerprint activity for kindergarten.
5 Ways to Help a Child Learn Letter Recognition
This little book gives you at least 5 ways to practice letter recognition skills:
- Start by having your child place the letters in the upper right corner with letter stickers. He can also practice writing the letter if you prefer but this gives your child a good reference for the letters’ correct form. This is the first introduction to letters for the book.
- Next, as you work through the letters, have your child name an item or two that begins with the letter. For example, A is for Apple, O is for Octopus. Stamp their finger in ink and onto the page and then encourage them to create that object from their fingerprint.
- Find the objects to match up with the letters by taking your book on a letter scavenger hunt throughout the house or outdoors. Encourage your child to say the letter and its sound several times throughout the activity.
- Combine the book with letter beads or to spell the simple words your child created with their fingerprint like cat, apple, dog, and etc.
- Finally, another easy way for the book for practice is to use it as flashcards. Show the letter stickers in the upper right corner and ask for the letter name or sound.
Their ABC flip book can also go on road trips, out to eat, and while waiting at doctors’ offices to keep little minds and hands busy.
When all the pages are done, you can laminate to make them sturdier and then put them back on the ring for practice throughout the whole school year if you like.
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You can use this ABC flip book as part of a larger curriculum.
Additionally, you can use it for a letter of the week approach, do them in order, out of order, as a review, to introduce letters, or in any way that suits your child’s needs and your style.
Besides the creative outlet of putting the book together and practicing letters and sounds with the alpha stickers your child also gets practice when finding words that start with the letter, flipping through to review, and as you add to it each time.
The little ring makes it easy to carry around and easy to flip through.
It’s the perfect size for little hands.
How to Make an ABC Flip Book Fingerprint Activity for Kindergarten
Now, let me give you a simple rundown on how to put it all together:
You will need:
- 8.5×11 Cardstock
- Stamp pads
- Binder Ring
- Letter Stickers
- Large hole punch
- markers/crayons
Cut 4 sheets of cardstock into 4.25 x 5.5 rectangles You will end up with a few extra. So use these for free fingerprint art.
On the front cover write ABC lightly in pencil.
Let your child “trace” it with their fingerprints to decorate the frog cover.
Punch a hole through the upper left corner of all the pages.
I used my large industrial hole punch, but you can use a single hole punch. You will just have to punch the paper one or two sheets at a time.
Slip your binder ring through all the holes to create a flipbook that can be carried around or stored in a basket with your other learning supplies.
Add A-Z letter stickers to the upper right corner of each page front and back, you can choose uppercase, lowercase or both depending on what you are working on.
Now enjoy finding objects that start with each letter with your child to fill their book through looking at ABC books, using their imagination, or on a letter hunt.
Give your child markers and or crayons to complete their drawings, turning fingerprints into cute little objects.
Write at the bottom of each page the letter and the word your child has chosen to represent it so that they can see it in writing. G is for grape for example.
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