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Hot Chocolate Beginning Sounds Match Winter Phonics Game

November 23, 2020
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by Beth Gorden

Make listening for initial sounds in words FUN with this beginning sounds match! Use this hot cocoa themed phonics activity in December, January, and February. The winter printables has kindergarten, pre-k, and first grade students sort the phonics marshmallows into the correct alphabet mugs based on the beginning sounds for kids. Add this phonics printable to your winter theme for literacy. Simply print pdf file with the beginning sounds game to make learning fun even if it is cold and snowy outside!

Make listening for initial sounds in words FUN with this beginning sounds match! Use this hot cocoa themed phonics activity in December, January, and February. The winter printables has kindergarten, pre-k, and first grade students sort the phonics marshmallows into the correct alphabet mugs based on the beginning sounds for kids. Add this phonics printable to your winter theme for literacy. Simply print pdf file with the beginning sounds game to make learning fun even if it is cold and snowy outside!

Beginning Sounds

This super cute, hands on phonics activity helps early readers practice listening for beginning sounds in words and matching them with the alphabet letter that also makes that same sound. Simply print initial sounds printable for a super cute, free printable initial sounds game for preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students.

Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this initial sounds activity for teaching children to sort words by beginning sounds of words. Use this as extra practice, winter break learning, winter literacy theme in your classro0m, or as a supplement to your homeschool phonics curriculum.

Beginning sounds match

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The beginning sounds printables pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

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Hot Chocolate Game

Start out by printing all the pages in color on cardstock and/or laminate for durability. You will have a cup of hot chocolate for every letter from A to Z and about four picture marshmallows per letter.

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Hot Chocolate Activities

Next, cut out all the cups of hot chocolate and the marshmallows. All the pieces easily store in a large ziplock bag to use over and over again!

This is such a fun, hands on educational activity to help kids improve literacy skills!

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Phonics Printables

For the youngest learners, just set out a couple of hot cocoa cups with their corresponding marshmallows at a time. Students will then sort the marshmallows into the correct alphabet hot chocolate cups by listening for the beginning sound in each picture marshmallow.

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Winter Activity for Kindergarten

Once students have mastered matching marshmallows with just a few cups, add in more cups to make it more difficult.  This is such a great phonics activity to help beginner readers learn to decipher words!

Make practicing multiplication and division fun with these free winter math worksheets for 2nd graders, 3rd graders, and 4th graders. This winter math has fun hot chocolate theme printables to help students work on Multiplication and division fact family. Simply print pdf file with fact family worksheets and make practicing math fun this December, January, and February. hot cocoa free printable rhyming puzzles - rhyming words with pictures  how to make hot chocolate sequencing pictures Make practicing adding fun for preschool, pre-k, and k5 kids with these free printable math addition worksheets for kindergarten. These addition worksheets for kindergarten allow children to work on their addition skills within 10. The fun, playful winter math for kindergartners addition activity is perfect for keeping kids engaged and eager to learn in December, January, and February!

Hot Chocolate Printables

Looking for more hot cocoa themed printable activities to make learning fun? Try these free resources:

Snowamn Craft using Glue  easy-snow-globe-craft-for-kids Wreaths are one of my favorite decorations during the holiday season! Especially ones that my daughter makes. This super cute snowman wreath craft uses a paper plate snowman to create a winter wreath craft for kids that is perfect for December and January. This cute snowman craft is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students to make. It is sure to be your favorite snowman craft ideas you make this holiday season.  If you are looking for fun, creative snowman craft ideas, you will love this adorable snowman suncatcher craft. This winter craft for preschoolers is sure to be a hit with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and up! All you need are a few simple materials to make this cute paper plate snowman project!

Snowman Crafts

Snowly owls are so beautiful and kids go nuts over the cute snowy owl babies! Although they live in the arctic, they have been seen as far south as Tennessee and Georgia. Whether you get a chance to see one in person, are looking for a cute winter craft for kids, or are doing an owls theme. This adorable owl craft is a must! This snowy owl craft for kids is a fun project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. This owl crafts for kids is fun and easy to make this January! Sticky Yarn Snowflake Craft for Kids - This is such a cute, clever winter craft perfect for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and more. #snowflakes #wintercrafts #yarncrafts Looking for cute and fun-to-make Christmas or winter craft ideas? You will love this colorful snowflake craft for kids that uses chromatography to create stunning diy snowflake decorations for December and January! These arts and crafts snowflakes are perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and up to make. You've got to try these winter craft ideas! winter-craft-for-preschoolers

Winter Crafts

Whether it’s cold and snow outside or not, this snow slime is the perfect winter activity for kids! The fun textures, shimmer, and beauty make this one of our favorite January activities for preschoolers. Use this snow activities in your winter theme with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders. easy-snow-ice-cream Outrageously FUN snowman activity that is part craft, activity, and winter stem too! Grab free worksheet to use with snowman launcher !

Winter Activities

Snow Volcano This outrageously FUN Exploding Snowman is a fun winter science experiment for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students. This STEM experiment is super simple to try using common materials you already have in your kitchen! Use this as a snowman activity to teach kids a little chemistry with this baking soda and vinegar experiment. Kids will have fun with this melting snowman where they will melt the snowman using a fun winter science experiment. This snowman activity is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten to sneak in a fun winter STEM activity where they will build a snowman and then melt it with snow science experiments observing simple chemistry for kids. Kids will love this fun snowman activity that allows them to sneak in a little science to a cold, winter day! Snowman eruptions are so easy, and this is such a cute project for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students.  In these winter science experiments children will watch the effect of baking soda and vinegar in a silly and outrageously FUN snow experiments.

Winter Science

Looking for more fun winter science projects for kids? We’ve got lots of fun ideas for you to try!

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Snowman Printables

Looking for snowman worksheets and educational snowman activity ideas? You will love these resources!

Snowman CVC Words Activity free printable Make listening for initial sounds in words FUN with this beginning sounds match! Use this hot cocoa themed phonics activity in December, January, and February. The winter printables has kindergarten, pre-k, and first grade students sort the phonics marshmallows into the correct alphabet mugs based on the beginning sounds for kids. Add this phonics printable to your winter theme for literacy. Simply print pdf file with the beginning sounds game to make learning fun even if it is cold and snowy outside!  winter-syllables  mitten-blends-puzzles

Winter Printables

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Snowman Math

Snowman printables shape puzzles Children will have fun building and counting with this no-prep Winter Math Activity! These free printable snap cube pattern cards are a great way to help kids learn to follow directions and think spacially. This unifix cubes printables are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders too. Simply print cube worksheets and you are ready to play and learn with  the free snap free printables. Kids will have fun practicing addition and subtraction with hot chocolate math. These free printable, fact family worksheets are an easy, no prep way for kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students to practice addition and subtraction fact families.  Simply print pdf file with these addition and subtraction worksheets and you are ready to get some needed practice this winter during December, January, and February. winter skip counting puzzles

Winter Math

Kids will have fun decorating these super cute, winter coloring pages with crayons, markers, and colored pencils! From snowmen, penguins, snowballs, sledding, and more - we've got lots of fun winter coloring sheets to choose from. Simply print pdf file with free winter coloring sheets for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students to colour this December, January, and February. winter-color-worksheets-with-bingo-markers  

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Phonics Hot Chocolate

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com

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  • I love this hands on activity. I am concerned that mine possibly didn’t print correctly. I do not have four pictures for every letter, on a few letters I only have one or two picture cards. Can you help with this?

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