Flower Find and Color the Blend Sheets
Use these free printable flower find and color the blend sheets with your students to practice reading beginning and ending word blends.
Flower Find and Color the Blend Mats
This literacy activity will be a hit in your classroom this spring! The cute, flower-themed worksheets will help students with their recognition of consonant blends. Practice beginning and ending blends in kindergarten and first grade.
This hands-on phonics activity would be the perfect addition to your literacy centers, small groups, partner practice, and independent stations or to send home with your students for extra practice. There are a ton of different ways to use this versatile activity.
As your students practice, they’ll learn blends as they practice saying the words, determining the blend, reading words with consonant blends and matching the picture to the correct blend on the printable sheets. They’ll color their match on the sheet when they find it.
In this free printable, you will get two flower-themed mats with blends. Then, one set of raindrop picture cards to go with the mats. The matching game is so simple to use with your students and so easy to prepare for you!
Simple to Prep
This flower-themed blend activity makes planning for and prepping your lesson plans a breeze. All you need to do is print the find and color sheets and the picture cards. Then cut out the picture cards and laminate if you would like.
I have also includes a color version of the find and color sheets that you can use as a mat. Just slide them into a write-and-wipe pocket or laminate them for durability. Then students can use manipulatives to cover the words or dry-erase markers to color or mark off each word as they find them.
You can use these in your literacy centers throughout spring!
Setting Up the Flower Find and Color the Blend Mats
Supplies Needed:
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- Flower Find and Color the Blend Mats and Picture Cards (button to download is at the bottom of this post)
- Small manipulatives or mini erasers
- Write and wipe pockets (optional)
Instructions:
- Print the sheets (or mats) and picture cards.
- If you are using the mats then you will slide them into write and wipe pockets OR laminate them.
- Laminate the picture cards. (optional)
- Cut the picture cards and store them in a baggie.
- Gather crayons, markers, mini erasers or any other manipulatives you would like to use.
- Store the entire activity in a large bag or storage container.
How to Play
This flower find and color the blend activity has easy-to-understand directions, perfect for little learners!
Students will flip over a picture card from the pile to play and determine the picture name.
Next, they’ll determine the blend that is in the picture name.
Finally, students will find the corresponding blend on the flower and color that space on the sheet. Play continues until all of the spaces on the mat are colored.
Send your students on a fun consonant blend word hunt to get them up and moving! Place the blend word picture cards all around the room. Students will look for the cards and find each matching word on their sheet.
Many Ways to Use
This flower find and color game can easily be differentiated to meet your student’s various needs and skill levels.
Students who are not ready to work independently, can work with a partner. Students who are still working on CVC words can use the Flower CVC Find and Color Sheets on our blog instead.
More advanced students can practice using their words in a sentence. Then, record it on paper for you to check later. They could also try to think of another word that has that blend in it and record it on paper for you.
These flower find and color the letter mats would be beneficial to use during:
- Whole group practice (students take turns drawing and covering)
- Small group practice
- Literacy centers
- Partner practice
- Independent work
- Morning work
- Early finishers
- Tutoring activity
- Plants unit
Your students will love these flower find and color the blend sheets for practice with reading words with consonant blends while developing phonics skills! They will be reading in no time with this learning activity.
Click the button below to grab your free copy of the Flower Find and Color the Blend Activity.
Here are some more spring activities!
Flower CVC Word Building Strips
Spring Flower Phonics Board Games
Spring Butterfly & Bee Find and Color the Letter Sheets
Ladybug CVC Clip Cards for Spring
Spring Caterpillar Find and Color the Letter Sheets