Monthly Archives: December 2016

Toddler Letters – “Z” is for “Zebra”

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Supplies Needed:

  • Colored Craft Paper
  • Letter “Z” Cutout
  • Glue
  • Black Paint (We used finger paint)
  • Googly Eyes
  • Black Craft Paper
  • Scissors
  • Paint Brush (If you want it, we attempted to use a Q-tip, but decided that our fingers were more fun)

Set Up:

We started by dipping our fingers into the finger paint and making stripes (or in my son’s case spots) of black across our “Z” to form the stripes of our zebra.  We let our “Z” dry.  Once it was dry I cut out some ear shapes from our black craft paper and we glued those to the top of our Z and added some googly eyes before gluing the whole thing to our craft paper.

We finished by talking about different kinds of animals and some of the interesting things different animals can do.  Elephants have long noses and can use them to grab things, giraffes have long neck and can reach leaves high up in the trees, monkeys can use their hands to climb trees etc.

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Tracing Letters:

*Courtesy of http://bogglesworldesl.com/

Have you made this craft?  What was your experience like and do you have an suggestions to make it better?  I’d love to hear about them in the comments section below.

Toddler Letters – “Y” is for “Yarn”

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Supplies Needed:

  • Colored Craft Paper
  • Letter “Y” Cutout
  • Elmer’s Glue
  • Scissors
  • Yarn
  • Marker

Set Up:

We started by cutting long strips of yarn.  I oped to do a thin line of glue and wrap my yarn around my letter “Y”, my son had more fun covering his “Y” in glue and glueing down long and short strips of yarn to his letter… mostly I think he liked being able to play with scissors and cut the yarn.  Both ways worked out great.

We finished by talking about strings and how they can be used to make things like fabric, carpet, and rope.  I had him look at his shirt and find the hem so he could see the thin string used to hold his shirt together, then we looked at our shag rug to see how the lots of little stings formed the soft carpeting and we finished by looking at a rope and seeing how all the stings wound together made for a really strong rope.

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Tracing Letters:

*Courtesy of http://bogglesworldesl.com/

Have you made this craft?  What was your experience like and do you have an suggestions to make it better?  I’d love to hear about them in the comments section below.