I love, love, love creating new activities and games for M. She’s almost 5 but still loves tonging and tweezing, sorting and grouping. Last week, I gave myself a challenge. I call it, “The Dollar Store Challenge.” Clever, huh? My (self-imposed) rule was to come out with as many activities as possible for only a …
Toilet Paper Roll Alphabet Crafts E is for Egg Draw an oval on the tube and have your child decorate with marker, stickers, or paint. Cut a slit on each side of the egg to make it pop out from the tube. Other Ideas: *Paste pictures of other items that start with “E” on your …
Toilet Paper Roll Alphabet Crafts D is for Door As I post these pictures I have to remind myself that it is NOT about the product, but more importantly the PROCESS! B cut part of the toilet paper tube to make a door and decorated it with a door knob. That was it. A …
Toilet Paper Roll Alphabet Crafts C is for Carrot First, color or paint green above the line and orange below the line. Cut the green into fringe pieces. Cut a slit in the orange section and wrap it to form a cone. Staple or tape it closed. Write the letter Cc on your carrot …
Toilet Paper Roll Alphabet Crafts B is for Butterfly Materials: Toilet paper tube Pipe cleaner (we used half) Wings cut from paper Have your child decorate the tube and wings. Write a letter Bb on the butterfly. Other Ideas: Have your butterfly flutter around the house and land on things …
I try to find activities and crafts that can be done with materials that most homes have on hand. Toilet paper rolls have been piling up at our house with the intention of building, crafting, or sculpting with them. B keeps making binoculars (which is fun), but after the 5th pair of binoculars I decided …
Candy Cane Letters (printable) Day 20 – Activity Advent Countdown The candy cane letter matching activity that we did today is from the Christmas Tot Pack at 1+1+1=1. Head over to download and print your own copy!
It’s no secret that Letter Factory is my hero! I couldn’t believe how fast B learned his letters and letter sounds from watching that video. Then I swooped in with other activities to reinforce them like these Leapfrog Letter Factory Flashcards. Running with Scissors has these free, printable Leapfrog Letter Factory flashcards. …
Make your own letter rocks and try these learning activities: This letter rock idea from Small Types is an awesome way to play with letters outside this summer! All you need is rocks, permanent ink, and letters stamps. What can you do with these rocks? Hunt for letters Toss letters into …
For Christmas, I made B this set of alphabet drawers. I bought the drawers at the hardware store and used address labels to label them. I filled the drawers with miniature items that begin with each letter and used the extra drawers for digraphs and blends. You can use a single drawer and name each …
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of “Mom, how do you spell (insert any word)?”. I decided to make this alphabet dictionary for B so when he asks we can write it in his dictionary and it will be there to refer to later. To make this, cut two or three pages at once. For …
To make this bubble popping letters activity, I took a scrap piece of bubble wrap and wrote different things (mirrored) on the back side with a sharpie. Then we played a listening game with it. I’d tell B to pop the bubble that has a circle in it or pop the bubble that has the word “love” in it. …