Rhyming Words Matching Worksheet for Preschoolers

How to use this worksheet

Read the words in the first row aloud slowly, emphasizing the ending sounds so your child can hear which two words rhyme. Ask your child to point to the two words that sound alike before picking up a crayon. Have them color both rhyming words in that row the same color, then move to the next row and repeat, choosing a new color each time. Once finished, go back through the page together and say each rhyming pair out loud one more time.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Crayons

Extension activities

• 1Play a call-and-response rhyming game in the car or at dinner, where you say a word and your child answers with a rhyme.
• 2Ask your child to draw a simple picture for one rhyming pair from the worksheet, like a cat and a hat.
• 3Read a rhyming picture book and pause before the rhyming word on each page, letting your child guess it.
• 4Sort a small pile of toy or picture cards into rhyming pairs as a hands-on matching game.
• 5Make up a silly two-line rhyme together using one of the word pairs from the worksheet.