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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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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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Toddler Letters – “X” is for “X-Ray”

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Supplies Needed:

  • Colored Craft Paper
  • Letter “X” Cutout
  • Elmer’s Glue
  • Scissors
  • Q-tips
  • Markers

Set Up:

We stared by gluing down our black letter “X” to our white paper.  Then we cut up our Q-tips so that we could use the ends to form more bone like structures. Once we had the Q-tips we wanted we did a line across our letter “X” with our glue and glued down our Q-tips in the pattern we wanted… my son’s X-ray ended up looking like someone with some seriously broken bones 🙂

We finished by talking about what bones were, I showed him some pictures of X-Rays and we talked about how our bones help support us.

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Toddler Letters – “W” is for “Wind”

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Supplies Needed:

  • Colored Craft Paper
  • Letter “W” Cutout
  • Glue
  • Paint
  • Straw
  • Marker

Set Up:

We started by adding little drops of paint all over our letter “W”, then I showed my son how we could use the straw to blow the paint around, the way the wind blows against us.  It worked fairly well though I had hoped to blend our colors more…  In hindsight I would suggest watering down your paint a little bit so that the “wind” from your straw has an easier time blowing it around.  We still had a great time painting this way and the next time we sat down to paint my son wanted to use a straw rather than a paint brush, so I guess he liked it. 🙂

We finished by talking about the uses of wind, (scatters seeds so new things can grow, can be used to make power, push boats, fly kites etc.)

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“V” is for “Vine” Preschool Craft Idea

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Supplies Needed:

  • Colored Craft Paper
  • Letter “V” Cutout
  • Elmer’s Glue
  • Green Colored Pom Poms
  • Green Pipe Cleaners
  • Markers

Set Up:

We stared by gluing our letter “V” to our green paper.  Then we added big swirls of glue to our letter “V”, we used blue sparkle glue, but when it didn’t dry clear so I would suggest using white glue.  After that we bent our pipe cleaners into vine like forms and added them to our page, occasionally adding another big glob of glue to help hold it down.  We finished by adding our green pom poms (leaves).  I did glue dots on my paper for where I wanted my leaves, my son enjoyed just adding handfuls.

We finished by talking about different kinds of plants and what they are used for.  Trees offer shade and wood, some plants offer food, flowers are pretty to look at and smell nice etc.

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