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Sticker Matching Activity

October 1, 2014 by Kate 14 Comments

Here is a fun sticker matching activity for kids. It’s great to do with children who are beginning to recognise similarities and differences and making connections between objects and pictures. It’s wonderfully easy to set up too!

matching stickers activity for kids

Possum (almost 3 years) has quite an obsession with stickers! Are your children the same? It’s an obsession that doesn’t really worry me though. Stickers are so wonderful for children to play with as they develop fine motor skills as they peel them off the backing paper and they really don’t cost a whole lot of money to buy. 

Recommended age: 3 years +
(Active supervision is required on all my activities) 

stickers for matching activity

Sticker Matching Activity

You will need – 

  • Stickers that have a matching double 
  • Paper
  • Pen

Quite simply, add a row of stickers down either side of the piece of paper. It is recommend (at least initially) to have one sticker and it’s matching double on the opposite side. The challenge for your child is increased the further apart the matching double is placed. 

Sticker matching activity for kids

finding the matching stickers

Prior to Possum starting this activity and before each of stage of her drawing a connecting line, I had her point out the matching doubles with her fingers. This was very helpful to her as she had an idea of where she would be drawing her lines prior to actually doing it. 

drawing and matching activity for kids

I sat with Possum and supported her throughout this activity, however, you might find your child is able to do this with greater independency. We talked about each of the pairs and how we knew they were the same. To help Possum experience a greater degree of success with this activity I pretended that each pair were ‘friends’ and she needed to draw a line to bring them together. 

drawing lines to match stickers
Of course you don’t have to use stickers to do this activity. You might wish to have your child match hand drawn shapes or numbers. The choice is up to you. This idea has also been inspired by a few who have done it previously, which can find over at School Time Snippets and TinkerLab. 

sticker matching with kids

Does your child love stickers? 

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Filed Under: 1 - 3 years, 3 - 5 years, Fine Motor, Numeracy, Uncategorized Tagged With: fine motor, matching, maths

Comments

  1. Alli says

    October 2, 2014 at 1:14 am

    What a cute idea! I love that it’s so simple and I already have the supplies I need for it. Love it!

    Reply
    • Kate says

      October 2, 2014 at 8:48 am

      Thank you so kindly Alli! It’s always a massive bonus when that happens. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Sara @ Happiness is here says

    October 2, 2014 at 11:24 am

    So simple and easy! Great idea.

    Reply
  3. Kate says

    October 4, 2014 at 1:07 pm

    My kids loved matching activities when they were preschoolers – stickers are genius as you can totally tailor to your kids interest and I have a cupboard full of them!

    Reply
    • Kate says

      October 4, 2014 at 3:24 pm

      Thanks Kate! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Debs says

    October 7, 2014 at 10:03 am

    What a cute and simple idea. Love it! (Maddie has that same Cotton On headband in a couple of different colours, haha) x

    Reply
  5. Katey says

    October 8, 2014 at 1:37 am

    My Kids LOVE stickers!! This is such a cute idea. I have pinned it and took inspiration from it and linked you into a post on Play to Talk! Thank you for this post.

    Reply
    • Kate says

      October 8, 2014 at 11:21 pm

      Oh thanks Katey. I’ll be sure to check out your work and link up to you. So much fun for kids.

      Reply
  6. katepickle says

    October 8, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    Oh fab idea!
    My four year old keeps asking for ‘school work’ so I think he’d love these!!

    Reply
  7. Kylie @ Octavia and Vicky says

    October 9, 2014 at 11:17 am

    Love it! Filing it under ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ LOL Pinning and sharing.

    Reply
    • Kate says

      October 9, 2014 at 3:39 pm

      Thanks so much Kylie! x

      Reply
  8. Manninj says

    June 19, 2020 at 4:08 pm

    I love the idea.It even helped with my Life Skills assignment.Thank you.

    Reply
    • Kate says

      June 24, 2020 at 10:24 am

      That’s great news.

      Reply

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