Find the Letter: S is for Sunglasses

These Find the Letter Printables: S is for Sunglasses will help your preschool and early-elementary aged children work on recognizing the letter S among many other letters of the alphabet.

Learning letters is more fun when kids can connect them to everyday objects they recognize. This activity helps children practice identifying the letter S while building early literacy and fine motor skills. It’s a simple, hands-on way to make learning the alphabet engaging and memorable.

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What Is the Learning Benefit of This Find the Letter: S is for Sunglasses Activity?

Letter recognition is one of the first building blocks of reading. In this activity, children focus on finding and identifying the letter S among other letters, helping them become more familiar with its shape and appearance.

As kids search for and mark each letter S, they also strengthen visual discrimination skills, which help them notice differences between similar-looking letters. Coloring, circling, or marking the letters can also support fine motor development and hand-eye coordination. Plus, connecting the letter S to sunglasses creates a fun association that helps reinforce alphabet learning.

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What’s Included?

This printable includes:

One Find the Letter worksheet featuring the letter S
A fun sunglasses theme to keep young learners engaged
Plenty of opportunities to practice letter recognition and visual scanning skills

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Fun Ways to Extend This Activity

Here are a few other fun ways for the kids to learn with this same theme!

Sunglasses Letter Hunt

Give your child a pair of sunglasses and challenge them to find items around the house that begin with the letter S. Examples might include socks, soap, snacks, or stickers. This helps connect letter recognition to real-world vocabulary.

Decorate Your Own Sunglasses

Provide a simple sunglasses template and let kids decorate it with crayons, markers, stickers, or glitter. Encourage them to write the letter S on their creation several times to reinforce letter formation.

Create an S Word List

Work together to brainstorm words that start with S. Write them on a piece of paper and draw pictures beside each one. Younger children can focus on simple words like sun, star, snake, and sock, while older learners can think of more challenging examples.