Letter Hunt Letter C

Pick out the letter C from a field of other letters

Recognise the capital C and the lowercase c as the same letter in two forms

Mark a target letter accurately with a dot marker or crayon, one square at a time

See the shape the marked letters make once the whole grid has been searched

Start with the capitals-only grid; the mixed grid asks a child to hold two letter forms in mind at once and is the harder of the two

The C's are laid out to form a large letter C, so the finished sheet is a self-check - a gap in the shape shows exactly which square was missed

In the mixed grid the lowercase c's make a second, smaller c inside the big one; pointing that out after marking rather than before keeps the discovery intact

Each grid appears twice in the file, so a child can repeat the same puzzle later in the week without a second printing

The cover names dobbers or crayons, so bingo dabbers, dot markers, stickers or fingerprints all work; nothing in the grid depends on the marking tool

Letter recognition - children scan a grid of mixed letters and mark only the C's, distinguishing them from letters like E, U, O and Q that share curved strokes.

Matching upper and lowercase - the first grid holds both C and c, and the header shows both forms, so a child must accept the two shapes as one letter.

Visual scanning - the grid is nine rows by nine columns with the target letters scattered along its edges and through its middle, which demands a systematic search.

Fine motor control - the cover directs children to use dobbers or crayons, so each mark must land inside one small grid square.