SBBK - Writing 4

Summer Boredom Buster Kids - Writing!

A while ago, I was cleaning out my craft room and found these foam letters.

I can't remember why I bought them, but my daughters have begged to use them on their "projects."

So, that is what we did today! 

My little one would pick a letter, say it out loud, and then stick it on someone's paper.

 Then that kid would have to write 2 words that start with that letter.

 They loved this!

 We did it until the paper was filled up.

For my older son, I gave him a letter and he would have to come up with an alliteration for that letter.

He did 10 sentences and we called it good.

Just another way to stretch their minds, get their hands writing, and enjoy their imaginations!

Name Recognition #9

My intention was to work on lowercase letters, but this bunch of cuties preferred to copy the letters.

So, that is what we did.

I found these:

We put them in a BIG pile and then I passed them out. They lined them up on my sheets and wrote the letter under. After they wrote the letter, they got to eat the gummi letter!

This was another fun and quiet activity. We will do it again because gummi letters are awesome!

Name Recognition #8

Magnet Letters!

Cheap Small Cookie Sheets and a Tub of These Foam Letters is all you need.

I chose foam because it is quiet.

First I let them free play. Then we sorted by color.

 Then we spelled our names. I made cards for them to copy the order of their names. We practiced first, middle, and last names. 

Sometimes we use these for Sunday centers. Sometimes we use these for quiet time.

I have even used them for spelling words.

Another fun activity that costs less than $16 for years of playtime.

Another use for these Magnets is match the sound to the letter game.

"This letter says Oooh" 

Name Recognition #7

Tot School/Preschool Activity

Need help recognizing and writing the alphabet? How about your child's name? Here is a perfect activity!

I prewrote the Alphabet (you can write their name) and have the kids paint with Q-Tips each letter.

This is a great activity that is little mess, and it is controlled.

It helps with pencil grip, name recognition, and focusing!

My 2 year old loved this activity as well. There are so many words you could have them paint.

Last name, sight words, spelling words, capitals, lowercases, etc.

Have fun with it and enjoy the quiet focused time with your kiddo! 

Fun Snack : Mosaics 2

So, my sister and I constantly battle over which is better. Goldfish (fishies) or Cheez-Its.

I love Cheeze-Its. Always have. In fact, there isn't a grocery list I have made that hasn't had them on there.

Well, they are $1.00 a box last week and I bought 20 of them.

Yes, 20 of them. It is true, I am obsessed.

For this activity, you only need two or three varieties.

I grabbed some scrap paper, drew a rectangle and let the kids make their own creations in the box.

The kids love to eat art.

  

This is the perfect activity when you need to be on the phone, because there was literally NO talking.

They were so focused on this project.

And, everyone can do it. Except for him. He would try and eat the paper. :)

Perfect activity for when you are watching a friends kid, or when you have time to kill.

Or in my case, when it is snowing and you just don't want to leave.

Sorry Utah friends. :/

Toddler Santa Advent Calendar

A repost from Dec 1, 2010

This is from my son's school but my daughter insisted on having one of her own.

First we played with the cotton balls. It was fun to feel them on our faces and eyes and throw them and just get our hands on them. I put the left overs in the sensory tub for winter. :)

 Once we were done playing we colored Santa faces.

Then we glued a basic hat on and I explained how the advent calendar works.

Every day (today is the 1st) you add a cotton ball to Santa's beard. Once the beard is filled its Christmas!

Everyone was so excited by this.  If you want the beard chart leave a comment HERE with your email address and I will send you the doc right away!

Easy Toddler Christmas idea... voile!

Community Helpers - 8

What do they do, what to they use, what to they drive, where do they work game.

Game Printouts found HERE

Here is another game we played.

Mailman, Mailman where's the mail?
This is a fun game that my 4 and 5 yr olds love. Get an envelope and write on it to make it look like a letter. Choose one child to be the mailman..he or she must figure out which child has the "mail". The mailman must face away from the others and close his eyes while you hand off the mail. Line the children against the wall and quietly give the envelope to one child who must hide it behind his back. All of the children must keep their hands behind their back as well. The children say "mailman mailman where's the mail?" The mailman turns around ands gets three chances to pick which child is hiding the mail.

Community Helpers - 7

I have a son who is OBSESSED with community helpers.  So of course we have dress ups AND vehicles for each job.

So we talked about the vehicles and who uses them and what they do.  Luckily we have all of the toold and gear for each vehicle.

Thanks to Imaginext - the coolest boy toys EVER!!

Not pictured is the mail truck, police motorcycle and trash truck.

Love this unit!

Community Helpers - 6

I made Community Helper Puppets.

Then I let the kids act out some scenarios that might include community helpers.

You can find some to print out HERE

Easy and fun! I laminated mine and each kid got a set to take home.

Community Helpers - 5

Another FUN community helper themed snack for Toddlers...

 We made and ate MAIL!

 Frost the Graham Crackers, Cheese It Stamps and Gummy Letters for the Address!

Super delish and fun!

Every kid made 2 and ate 2.

Community Helpers - 4

I tried posting this last week 3x but Blogger was all over the place so here it is...

Community Helper Snack!

We talked about Policemen and then had their favorite snack!

 Milk and Donuts!

I used this time to teach them through the stick puppets I made and reading the books more about the community helpers!  Toddlers love Community Helpers!

Community Helpers - 3

Our library has a bunch of Rebus books.

Rebus means words for pictures.

or word puzzles.

Here is an example...

Our library has a whole section on rebus books.  I grabbed a bunch on Community Helpers.

It was fun to read to the kids and have them "read" me the parts of the book that they know. A Policeman rides a Horse. etc..

Super fun and Quiet one on one time!

Community Helpers - 2

Trash vs Recycle Game

So I had clip art - which you can find too in word of things that are recyclable and things that are trash.

We sorted them accordingly.

After that we looked at things that can be recycled. How can we tell? What does the symbol look like?

Then we looked throughout the kitchen for things with the recycle symbol.

It was fun and we still look at things today that can be recycled!

Community Helpers - 1

This month we are talking about my family's FAVORITE topic - Community Helpers. 

I am totally serious. I showed the "class" what I was talking about and as you can see...MY KID is thrilled!

Today we dressed up as Community Helpers.

 From the top.  Trash Man, Postal Worker.

Middle: Nurse, Doctor, Nurse

Bottom: Policeman and Fireman

Then we talked about what each of the helpers do.

 Because my family loves them so much, I had all of the appropriate tools that correspond with each helper.

 This was fun for everyone and it is good to role play/dress up every once in a while.