I put together a collection of black and white alphabet pictures from A-Z (source: clker.com) to use for alphabet crafts. How to Use the Alphabet Pictures Cut letters out of magazines (or cut words out of magazines and give your child a chance to cut the letters out themselves). Then, glue them onto the …
Tiny objects are EVERYWHERE in our house. Now that your child is older, here’s how you can use them. Tiny Objects and Your Older Child We unrolled two felt mats and I put an F and an O on each one. Her job? Classify and categorize the objects based on FARM animals and OCEAN animals! …
Learning letter sounds is fun with tiny objects! Instead of focusing on the whole alphabet, start with just a few tiny objects and letter sounds. Sometimes sorting larger amounts of objects from our alphabet box can be overwhelming for N. So I decided to set up a matching activity for her with just …
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 …
Grocery ABCs – Warning: This activity isn’t for everyone! Only do this if you are ok with not having your groceries put away right when you get home. I wanted to stop about half way through, but at that point it was too late. As you are unpacking groceries, give your child a …
Is your toddler or preschooler interested in exploring beginning letter sounds? This activity is for you! This activity happened on accident but turned out to be a fun one to work on together. Fold your paper into a grid and take turns drawing the letters and something that starts with that letter in each box. …
Using Big Dice to Make Words with Your Preschooler or Toddler I wrapped two kleenex boxes in construction paper and wrote consonants on the red box and word family chunks on the orange box (ig, at, op, og, it, an). Then B threw rolled the dice to make a word. We …
This ABC Board is an easy DIY for teaching and working with letter sounds. When B was younger we would lay this tri-fold project board on the floor and let him do his coloring and crafts on it. This would protect the floor and sometimes he had fun coloring directly on it. Now that he …