Make various black and white file folder games to teach alphabet skills. Use stencils to add capital letters, in order, on the interior of the file folder. On a sheet of paper, use the stencil guide to create lower case letters students match to the correct capital letter. Alternatively, stencil lower case letters in and match the upper case letters. Another alphabet game using the same file folder includes matching cut-out pictures of common items such as a cat, scissors or dog with the starting letter.
Print shapes such as apple or watermelon cross-sections or buses with faces in the windows and glue the onto the interior of the file folder. Have the kindergartener match the number with the number of seeds in the apple core or watermelon section or the number of faces in the bus window. Use blank black and white circles in the file folder and have the student put the number in correct order. Another file folder option places a numeral in each shape on the file folder and the student matches the game piece with the correct number of objects to the numeral.
Use tangram pieces to match the tangram puzzles in the file folder sheets. For example, figure out which tangram pieces mix to form a duck or a boat shape. The backside of the interior sheet could should the correct solution and the front shows the outline the kindergarten student should match. An alternative game uses a story such as Noah and the Ark with one animal in each ark window. The student matches each animal's mates to complete the game.
Print black and white shapes from large to small and from small to tall and glue them to the file folder. In the pocket, place similar game pieces and have the kindergarten student match the correct game piece to its comparison. Use similar ideas for comparisons of thin boxes to wide ones, small birds to large birds and children to adults.
Place a file pocket inside the folder with drawings on cards that represent a familiar story or rhyme such as the Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears or Jack and Jill. Place a large black and white picture of the story characters and props so the kindergartener recognizes the story. Use the sequence cards to put the story in proper order. Alternatively, put letters or numbers in their proper sequence.