🐣Hands-On Spring Literacy Fun with Chick Hatch and Match!

High-Engagment Spring Literacy Center for PreK, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade

When the weather starts warming up and spring excitement fills the air, I’m always looking for fresh ways to keep learning playful—but still purposeful. That’s exactly why I love Chick Hatch & Match!

This hands-on, spring-themed literacy center feels like a game but delivers real reading and phonics practice. Whether you’re teaching in the classroom or at home, it’s an easy, low-prep way to keep kids engaged while building essential literacy skills.

🥚What is Chick Hatch & Match?

Kids open plastic eggs filled with pictures, CVC words, CVCe words, blends, digraphs, or decodable sentences, and match them to the correct strip using a bingo chip, pom-pom, or mini eraser. It’s like a spring-themed literacy egg hunt that keeps kids excited and learning.

🌷Why Teachers and Parents Love It

This 6-in-1 resource makes it easy to differentiate for PreK, Kindergarten, and 1st grade learners at every literacy level. From alphabet recognition to reading decodable sentences, you can adjust the challenge to fit your students' needs—keeping your spring literacy centers fresh, purposeful, and fun.

It’s also great for building decoding and fluency skills with Science of Reading-aligned decodable word strips and sentences—all in a playful, hands-on way.

🐣What's Included:

✅ 6 Literacy Centers in 1 – Perfect for Differentiation!
✅ 26 Alphabet Letter Strips – Upper & Lowercase Beginning Sound Matching Mats
✅ 26 CVC Word Strips with Picture Matching Mats
✅ 26 CVC Decodable Sentence Strips with Picture Matching Mats
✅ 26 CVCe Sentence Strips with Picture Matching Mats
✅ 26 Blends & Digraphs Word Strips with Picture Matching Mats
✅ 26 CVCe Word Strips with Picture Matching Mats

⭐ Easy Prep! Cut the cards and place them inside plastic eggs.

🧺How We Use It

I love pulling this out during spring review or the weeks before spring break. It’s a great way to keep kids moving, engaged, and practicing phonics without them even realizing how much they’re learning!

We keep our plastic eggs in a basket, and the kids take turns opening, reading, and matching—it’s always a hit in our homeschool and works just as well in classroom centers!

🎥See Chick Hatch & Match in Action

✨Want to Make It Even More Fun?

Want to set it up like I did? Here are the materials I used to make it even more exciting:
🥚 Plastic Eggs
🐣 Spring Erasers
🌸 Mini Baskets or Bowls

🌷Bring Spring Literacy to Life with Chick Hatch & Match

This low-prep, skill-building activity makes literacy practice feel like play—perfect for small groups, centers, or independent practice all spring long.

👉 Ready to bring hands-on spring literacy fun to your PreK, Kindergarten, or 1st grade learners? Grab Chick Hatch & Match Here and watch your students crack open reading success!

🐰Looking for More Spring Fun?

Pair this with my Spring Math & Literacy Centers Bundle—packed with hands-on activities that feel like play and help build important early learning skills for PreK, Kindergarten, and 1st grade.

👉 Check Out the Spring Bundle Here