Printable ABC Matching Game - Housewife Eclectic

Who says play can’t be educational. This fun play mat is one that I brought with us on our latest road trip. It is really easy to pull together and there are lots of different ways to play with it!

You will need:

The printable found at the bottom of this post.
A laminator and laminating Sheets, I use this one and love it!
a binder pouch to keep the letters in
magnetic letters
magnet tape for the back of the play mat
cookie sheet to play on (I bought mine at the dollar store)

Print and laminate your printable. That’s it! This is probably the easiest of all my play mats. You can add some magnet tape to the back of the play mat to help it stay on the cookie sheet better.

You can use an old cookie sheet, but I found that the cookie sheets at the dollar store are the right size for a regular sheet of paper. I bought a dollar cookie sheet and then spray painted it turquoise, while the paint was still wet, I threw pink glitter on the cookie sheet. I actually painted this cookie sheet more than 4 years ago and it has held up really well!

The most obvious game to play with this play mat is letter matching, but you can also have them create words. I tell my daughter to spell cat and she has to find and match each letter for the word. I absolutely love it for improving reading and spelling.

I have a whole series of Kids Road Trip Free Printables. You can find my Road Trip Sanity Savers here, My Ocean Play Mat here, My Farm Play Mat here, My Dino Play Mat here, My Silly Face Magnet Board here, My Magnetic Building Shapes here, My Travel Checkers here, and my Car Play Mat here.

What activities do your kids bring on road trips?

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Comments

Rachel // Maybe Matilda says
July 6, 2015 at 4:10 pm
I love a simple project! I bet Forrest would love this one.
Lexie Lane says
July 6, 2015 at 5:11 pm
My son really loved doing his ABC's. I think this is something he would have enjoyed. Might still do actually!
Julie @ Girl on the Move says
July 6, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Absolutely love this! Such a fun way to work on the ABC's
Jeannette says
July 6, 2015 at 7:07 pm
I wish I thought about doing this when my son was little. What a great way to learn and have fun all at the same time! Very creative!
bxcrochet says
July 6, 2015 at 7:26 pm
That is such a great idea! I will be printing this out and using it with my daughter.
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Liz Mays says
July 6, 2015 at 7:35 pm
I love the idea of spray painting one from the dollar store. We've played with letters on the fridge, but the portability of this is awesome.
MikiHope says
July 6, 2015 at 11:36 pm
This does sound like it would be great for a road trip or even a rainy day activity. Educational and fun-you can't beat that combination.
alexandria waning says
July 7, 2015 at 12:50 am
Very cute idea. I used to make sheets for the fridge (uppercase and lowercase) and my daughter would match them with her magnets. I'd switch the upper and lower cases thenwe went to words. Yours is great for travel though.
Jaclyn Kent says
July 7, 2015 at 1:51 am
Ahh I seriously LOVE this! I have been looking for more educational activities and my son love the alphabet, so we need this!
Stroller Savvy says
July 7, 2015 at 2:55 am
What a great idea. This would be a great road trip activity to keep the kiddos occupied!
Michelle Thomas says
July 7, 2015 at 3:03 am
So fun! Perfect for traveling too!
Heather Jones says
July 7, 2015 at 5:24 am
I think this would be a great idea for my three year old! I wish I had a laminator though! Great ideas Debra!
Shelly says
July 7, 2015 at 1:12 pm
Such a simple project! My daughter would even love to help in the painting process and throwing on glitter. She is only three, but is glitter obsessed.
Kids Are A Trip says
July 7, 2015 at 1:16 pm
This is a great idea for helping kids learn their letters. I don't think they would even realize they were learning (lol). We love to do Mad Libs and play the license plate game on road trips. Happy summer!
Stacey D says
July 7, 2015 at 3:39 pm
I love the portability of this! It has me thinking of ways it could be adapted for my 6th grade classroom for vocabulary activities! Thanks.
mail4rosey says
July 7, 2015 at 6:17 pm
This would be fun for my granddaughter. She is 2 and already doing so great!
Living a Fit and Full Life says
July 7, 2015 at 6:44 pm
This is a great idea!
Rebecca Hubbell says
July 7, 2015 at 10:43 pm
I love that you put it on a cookie sheet so the letters stick, that's genius and so great for car rides!
Karissa Ancell says
July 8, 2015 at 2:05 am
What a great project! My daughter would have loved this when she was little!
Krystal Butherus says
July 8, 2015 at 2:08 am
I'll have to try this with my toddler. HE would go nuts for this activity!
Nicole Escat says
July 8, 2015 at 3:11 am
its really nice , my son would surely like this , we will try this . thank you for sharing this awesome post
Taylor S. says
July 9, 2015 at 12:17 am
I love this and I'm sure my daughter would too because we're learning about letters right now! Thanks for sharing this clever idea!

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