Spectacular, Slimy Spaghetti

We had a super good time with this rainbow spaghetti.  I had some extra noodles left over from our dinner so I colored it with different food colors and let the kids play with it.  I put down the wax paper so it wouldn't stick to the table and my son asked for the glue.  Squeezing the glue bottle is an excellent small muscle builder, and a great sensory experience.  They loved it!  We made rainbows, S's and my son made a swimming pool for the spaghetti.  Fabulous way to play and learn the letter "S" and the sound it makes!!

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Lego Words

Recently, my 4 year old is very interested in words, letters and spelling. He also loves to build with Lego's.    So, I put this little activity together for him.  First, I asked him what words he would like to build.  He came up with a list, which included, spaceship, Mommy, Daddy, Buzz (as in Lightyear), toy, and his sister's name.  I wrote these on cards.  Then, I put a little piece of clear tape on the side of the Lego's and printed the needed letters on them.  He would choose a word and then gather the correct Lego's to spell it out.  He now knows how to "read" all of them.  Nothing like a little play for learning to read!  This activity combines fine motor skills, letter recognition, and reading.

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Rock Your Socks

My son loves to collect things...rocks, sticks, flowers, tree branches, leaves, whatever he finds interesting.  His rock collection was becoming quite large and I thought we should use them for "something".  I painted them white and then wrote a letter on each one for both the kids names.  I figured we could use them as a name recognition game. 

I flipped them over and wrote x's and o's so we could also play Tic, Tac, Toe.

We use them to spell our names and also letter recognition.

Today, I hid his name in a sock and had him pull out one at a time to create his name. 

I had his name printed on a card so he could match the letters.

Yep, letter and name recognition....who knew rocks in a sock could be so much fun!!

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Super Sun Prints

          We took our blocks and foam letters outside to let the sun do some art for us.  T loves space and designed a spaceship on his paper.  He told me it needed a name so I used our foam letters to spell "spaceship" for him.  We also made one with his name.  We let them sit in the sun for the good part of the day and when we check, voila.....a design.  Sorry it is a little hard to see because the paper is almost the same color as our paint.  We discovered that the lighter paper makes better sun prints.

Sun prints encourage creativity, cause and effect and if using letters, letter awareness.

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