Letter of the Week- Letter E

Our letter of the week last week was the letter E.

We started out our week with our usual letter paper to decorate.  This week Hailey simply colored the letter E with crayons.  Later I cut it out and glued it onto construction paper and posted it on our refrigerator.  Each week she does one of these for our letter of the week and we always use something different to decorate the letters (colored pencils, markers, water colors, finger paints, etc.)

Then we made this Letter E Elephant, an idea I found at No Time for Flashcards.

Here’s what you’ll need: a large E, an extra piece of construction paper in the same color as your E to make a trunk and an ear for the elephant, something to decorate your E with (we used the dobbers), glue and another piece of construction paper in a different color.

Decorate the E, the trunk and ear.

The finished letter E Elephant.

Then we made this Elmo:

Here’s what you’ll need: An Elmo template printed on card stock, toilet paper roll, red paint, and something to paint with.

Paint the toilet paper roll and the Elmo template red.

Once it’s dry cut out the Elmo pieces and glue them onto the toilet paper roll.

The finished Elmo.

Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other moms are doing to keep their tots busy.  Don’t forget to check back here everyday as I will post about our fall activities, our color and shape activities and our Bible activities.

Letter of the Week- Review A-D

Last week was a review week for us and we reviewed the letters A, B, C and D.

Each day we did one of these to review a letter.  I saved the letters from a project we did during the week when Hailey first learned the letter.  And I printed out pictures and words that started with that particular letter.

Hailey working on her letter A page.

The finished letter A page.

Hailey working on her letter B page.

Running out of glue working on the letter C page.

Hailey working on the letter D page.

My mom bought these fun letter shaped cookie cutters for Hailey.  So, we used them for several projects.  For this one- we used the letters, paint and paper.

Hailey dipped the letters into the paint and then stamped them onto the paper.  (And also ate some, as you can see from the green around her mouth.)

We used the cookie cutters to cut out playdough.

And then, of course, we made cookies.  Hailey is dumping the sugar into our bowl.

And sampling some of the cookie dough (I only let her do this BEFORE I added the eggs.  Do not let your child sample cookie dough with raw eggs in it.)

The finished A, B, C, D cookies.

Be sure to come back everyday when I will post our activities about our theme this month (fall), our color, shape and number (orange, triangles and 3) and our Bible theme (Noah).

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Letter of the Week- Letter D

I’m a week behind in posting our activities.  These activities are actually from a couple of weeks ago.  But we were out of town last week when I would have normally posted these.  And since we weren’t home most of the week I didn’t do many activities with Hailey.  She has also been really busy enjoying her new presents from her 2nd birthday and hasn’t wanted to do many crafts.  We’re getting back into our regular routine this week though.  So, I’ll be back to my regular posting and we’ll be doing lots of stuff that I’ll be sharing next week.

On to our activities:

Hailey decorated the letter D using finger paint.  She does one of these each week for our letter of the week (using something different to decorate with each week)- then I cut it out and put it on construction paper and hang it on our refrigerator.

Then we made a D Dragon- an idea I found over at No Time for Flashcards.

Here’s what you’ll need: a large letter D on construction paper, 3 other pieces of construction paper in varying colors, crayons, scissors, wiggly eye and glue.

First I had Hailey color her letter D, but she wasn’t very interested in coloring it.  So, we moved on to the next step.  I cut up a bunch of triangles and had her glue them along the side of the D.

We added an eye and some fire coming out of his mouth.  Then I glued it onto the black construction paper.  This is our finished letter D dragon.

I decided to try something new with Hailey this week.  I bought these dobbers a while ago but we haven’t used them yet.  Since they make dots and dots start with D, I decided to use this activity for the letter D.

Here’s what you’ll need- dobbers and construction paper.

Hailey loved these dobbers.  I loved them to because it didn’t matter how hard she hit the paper- they did not splatter.  She dropped one and it hit the wall and the floor and wiped right off (I cleaned it immediately).

Hailey’s new thing to do is to turn away from me, close her eyes and eat whatever we are working with.  So, here she is- thinking I can’t see her- rubbing her finger on the dobber and then licking it off.

Letter of the Week- Letter C

Last week our letter that we focused on was the letter C.  And we did several fun activities.  Every Monday I give Hailey a paper to decorate for our letter of the week and we decorate it using different methods (colored pencils, water colors, etc).  This week we used markers to color the letter C.

Here is our finished Letter C which hangs on our fridge all week.

Then we made this cute letter C.

Here’s what you’ll need: a large letter C, another piece of construction paper, cotton and glue.

Glue the cotton onto the letter C- pointing out that cotton starts with C.

The finished letter C, which also hangs on our fridge.

We also did some of our usual letter activities.  I hid felt C’s around our house for Hailey to find.  I just realized we never visited Star Fall to do their letter C activities, but I will make sure we do that today.

Here is Hailey gluing on pieces to her Letter C Book.

Last but not least- our favorite activity.

Hailey helped me to make some chocolate chip cookies.

I shaped the cookies into the letter C.  If you do this- be sure to leave plenty of space for your C to fill in so that you don’t end up with a blog.  Also, if I did this again I would use sugar cookies instead of chocolate chip cookies because I think they would be easier to form.  The chocolate chip cookie dough was really sticky to try to form into a C.

Enjoy your letter C cookies!