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Toddler Letters – “G” is for “Grass”

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Supplies Needed:

  • Brown Craft Paper
  • Green letter “G” cutout
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  • Grass Shoots

 

 

Set Up:

We started this letter by walking outside together and gathering some grass shoots.  Then we went in and I had our “G” cut out and ready to go.  I slathered the “G” with glue.  Then my son and I took turns cutting the very long grass shoots into shorter pieces so they would fit on our “G” and putting them into the glue. He thought cutting the grass with scissors was pretty much the most fun and most funny thing he had ever done. 🙂
We finished up by talking a little bit about plants and different things that grow like grass, trees, and flowers.

 

 

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Toddler Letters – “F” is for “Fire”

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Supplies Needed:

  • Black Craft Paper
  • Red “F” Cut Out
  • Colored Feathers, Preferably Red, Yellow, Orange and Black
  • Glue
  • White Crayon

 

He was super proud of his letter… but he’s still working on the “Smile for the Camera” thing. 🙂

Set Up:

I cut out the letter “F” then covered it with glue and let my toddler take his time placing each of the colored feathers along his “F”.  He did a great job and I think he really enjoyed getting to feel and play with something soft and textured like feathers.  We did a couple of layers of glue as the feathers built up so we could have a more robust fire, but I don’t know that it was necessary.

After we finished I tried to talk to my little guy about what fire was and even lit a candle to show him how the light moved and how he could feel the heat from it, but it kind of freaked him out.  Ha. So much for the safety lesson… I guess we’ll work our way up to real fire, for now, we’ve got a great letter “F”.

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Toddler Letters – “E” is for “Easter Egg”

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Supplies Needed:

  • Craft Paper
  • “E” cutout
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  • Tissue Paper
  • Stickers (If wanted, we didn’t end up using them)

 

Set Up:

I cut out the “E’s” and we glued them to our blue paper.  Then we cut our tissue paper into little strips using ridged craft scissors.  We covered the “E” with glue and glued our tissue paper to it. In hindsight this might have looked more like an Easter Egg if we had just used water colors and painted it.  🙂

When we finished we talked about how holidays are special days where we take time to do things we wouldn’t usually do, including coloring Easter Eggs at Easter time.

Tracing Letters:

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“D” is for “Donut” Letter Activity and Craft

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Supplies Needed:

  • Craft Paper
  • “D” cut out
  • Glue
  • Colored Sprinkles

Set Up:

I cut out the “D” in advance, then we slathered glue over the top of it and I let my son go wild with sprinkling whatever color sprinkles he wanted on his “D”… I thought it would look a bit more like a sprinkled donut that it did in the end but we still had a lot of fun making it.

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