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Welcome to Letter H Day!
If you haven’t read the Introduction to the Alphabet Activities, you should start there.
Don’t forget to check out the free Letter H: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids that go along with these!
Here are the activities we did for Letter H:
We made a construction paper Hamburger, and although my daughter didn’t put it together quite as I had conceived she would, we still got the point across. :)
I had cut out an H in brown to represent the burger patty, and there’s a bun in orange, a tomato in red, lettuce in green, and some Swiss cheese in white.
I also made a lowercase H and cut out some pieces in white that vaguely represented a horse’s head, tail, and hooves.
And my kids always love combining glue and construction paper, but if you throw in a googly eye then it’s really a party.
For our Letter Sorting, I cut out two shapes that looked kind of like houses and drew on some doors and windows and roof shingles. My daughter was pretty young when I did this, but she’s old enough now that I’d let her draw the doors and windows herself if we did it again.
Then she put the lowercase Hs on one house and the uppercase on the other.
Making Hidden Messages was pretty fun. This was the example I did for her, and I can’t remember why I don’t have a picture of the one she did. I think I didn’t photograph as well.
Anyway, you draw designs on a white piece of heavy or construction paper with a white crayon, and then you paint over it with water colors.
The crayon resists the paint and your designs show through.
You could always prep some hidden messages for them, kind of like I did. I used Letter H words: Hi, Hello, and Howdy.
Hopscotch is always a big hit in our house, and it’s great for practicing numbers.
This time I drew a big and little H at the start of the Hopscotch.
You could also make a version that’s like our Power Word Hopscotch, and fill the squares with H words (Hi, Hello, Hand, Happy, etc.) instead of numbers and have your child shout out the words as they hop over the board.
This was SO much fun. After discussing how “hula” started with H, we pretty much went right into dancing and dressing up.
During the summertime, it’s pretty easy to find hula skirts and leis at the local dollar stores around here. Or you could try a party store or check online.
Then we danced to some videos, including The Hula Song from The Lion King (just for laughs):
Then we watched the He Mele No Lilo scene from Lilo & Stitch:
And finally, we watched a more traditional He Mele No Lilo. My girls really loved this and we watched it over and over, dancing along with them. My older daughter also spent some time studying the little girls and the way they moved:
Then it was back to our projects…
I found these little wooden helicopters in the craft section of Walmart.
I think I paid about a dollar apiece for them.
After we painted them, we attached some of the little foam letter stickers that I had picked up in the bargain section of Target.
This is one of our favorite games.
This is the version that looks just like the one I had when I was a kid, but there is also this version which has red balls for some reason.
You can also see our LeapFrog Fridge Phonics magnet in the background (which is the older version of this one and kind of similar to this bucket set), because – of course – we had to discuss how both Hungry and Hippos started with H before we went on a crazy marble-eating rampage.
This was a fun activity for practicing fine motor skills.
I found some plastic hard hats and the dollar store and we hammered some gold tees into a piece of Styrofoam with a rubber mallet.
This one definitely needs close supervision because you may have to hold the golf tee steady for them at first or (preferably) you may want to stick it in the foam a little before allowing them to hammer it further down.
But it was fun. And we still play with the hats sometimes. :)
It just wouldn’t be Letter H day without a discussion of my favorite play.
My girls are quite familiar with Shakespeare and a few of his plays, and one of these days I’ll get around to posting some of the Hamlet crafts and recipes we’ve done, but for now you can still see some of the kid-friendly books about him.
The one pictured above is from the very first Usborne book I ever purchased (which has led to a serious obsession with Usborne, but that’s a little off topic). It’s called Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare, and is filled with gorgeous paintings and a story version of Hamlet and five other plays that are short enough to read to children.
Or, if you’d rather have a box set with five separate hardback books, including Hamlet, you could get The Shakespeare Gift Collection instead.
Depending on the age of your kids, there’s also the Shakespeare Sticker Dressing, recommended for age 5 and up, where you can dress up characters from the plays (like Hamlet) with stickers, and then there’s also the incredible Where’s Will book that’s like a “Where’s Waldo” book but with characters from Shakespeare’s plays (like Hamlet). The second book is recommended from ages 7 and up (and I really bought it for myself anyway….) but even my three-year-old enjoyed searching with me.
You can read more about my Shakespeare book collection by clicking here.
This was lunch: leftover ham chunks and pieces of honeydew.
Food is one of my favorite things, so, you know, I try to add in whatever I can to our Letter Days.
Which also includes Hones Scones! I can’t remember if we baked these on Letter H Day or a different day that week, but they are quick to make.
Here’s my recipe:
Well, that’s it for today! Was a bit of a full day though, wasn’t it?
To get all of the free printable worksheets I made, head over to my post:
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Sooo… Easter’s kind of around the corner and I’m over here like, gee… I haven’t posted any of my Halloween stuff yet…
Well, better late than never, right?
Hopefully you agree. :)
For last Halloween, I made these to help my kids practice counting. My girls are in preschool and kindergarten, and these worksheets have a variety of activities for them, including counting the shapes, matching the candy to the shapes, figuring out which is biggest and smallest group, and tracing the numbers both as figures and as words.
For the Candy Corn Counting worksheet we used regular candy corn. For the Pumpkin Patch Counting worksheet, we used the pumpkins out of a bag of mixed mallowcremes, but you could also get a bag of just the pumpkins, or even something like these jelly pumpkins.
If you’re trying to avoid giving your kids any extra candy, you could pick up some Halloween erasers instead, which you can usually find at a dollar store if it’s actually, you know, around Halloween. Or you could pick up some on Amazon instead. The erasers are also good because you can keep using them for other math activities afterwards.
Or, you could avoid both the candy and the toys altogether and just color in the shapes. No toys to lose and nothing to eat.
Even though the eating was, you know, my kids’ favorite part.
Here are the free printable worksheets – just click the names to download the PDF:
Enjoy!
These Puzzle Pad Books from Usborne have tear-off pages that are full of paper games and puzzles to keep kids entertained.
They’re really great for car rides or restaurants or when you want to keep your kids entertained without electronics.
My video review shows one that’s made for two people (“players”) and another that is made for just one person.
Plus, there’s a pocket-sized one, too, which is smaller in size and with less pages, to make it even easier to carry around. Like in their backpacks.
Check out my video to see inside the books and get a glimpse at the puzzles and games:
Here are the direct links to the books I mentioned in the video:
And, of course, there are tons of other interactive and educational puzzle books at my site BOOKS WITH ROSIE.
If you need any suggestions, feel free to contact me on Facebook! :)
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Welcome to Letter G Day!
If you haven’t read the Introduction to the Alphabet Activities, you should start there.
Don’t forget to check out the Letter G: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids, too!
For our construction paper letter, we made a giraffe with a letter G body, four legs with attached feet and a little head I had cut out.
I used a hole punch to make a bunch of “spots” out of brown paper, which was a lot of fun to attach. One of these days I may even remember to buy and easier-to-use hole punch so my daughter can help me out with things like this!
For our letter sorting, I made two guitars, and my daughter placed the lowercase Gs on one and the uppercase on the other.
I later realized this would have looked better if I’d cut out the Gs as little music notes. Next time.
Is there anything better than glitter?
Not if you’re a toddler/preschooler/anybody!
The supplies for this included glue and green glitter. Easy + fun = awesome!
You can print the worksheet from my post Letter G: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids.
For this I cut a bunch of small pieces of “grass” out of construction paper ahead of time, that my daughter attached with glue.
But later, I let her use her little scissors to practice cutting grass, which we used for a different project.
You can print the worksheet from my post Letter G: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids.
It’s GOOOOOOOOO!
This stuff is great. And boy, did my girls love playing with it!
It’s a little wet at first, but it dries out pretty quickly. Either way, I don’t advise playing with it on carpet.
And you can store it in a closed container for awhile. Depending on how much time they spend playing with it each time you take it out of the container, it might last a few weeks.
The recipe is easy, although you may have to help your Little Ones squeeze out ALL of the glue.
You’ll need:
1. 8 oz. white glue {we used 2-4 oz. bottles of Elmer’s}
2. 1 teaspoon Borax {found in the laundry detergent aisle}
3. food coloring {optional}
4. water
First, empty the glue into a large bowl. Add a tablespoon or so of water to the glue bottle and shake it well to help loosen the rest of the glue. Pour that into the bowl, too. Stir in some food coloring.
Mix the Borax with 1/2 cup warm water until dissolved, then add it into the glue and stir.
This will produce a slimy substance within a puddle of water. Pull the goo out of the water and knead it a bit to squeeze out some of the excess water.
It’s pretty much done at this point. A little more water will probably leak out as the kids start to play with it, so I suggest playing on a mat or plastic tablecloth or something similar the first time, to help catch the extra water.
We stored ours for a few weeks, playing with it now and then. After a while, it became stiffer and pieces would break off that we could then knead back into it. But my girls enjoyed both the slimy and stiffer versions.
Green Glitter Goo is a combination of
1. clear hair gel {from the dollar store}
2. green glitter {sometimes available at the dollar store}
3. a few drops of green food coloring {optional}
Mix up all that stuff in a plastic gallon-size freezer baggy {freezer bags are sturdier} and let the kids go at it. We traced all kinds of letters and shapes in the goo.
It lasted quite a while, too, before I even worried about it leaking. Just make sure no one jumps on it or anything, and it should last at least a few weeks, if not more.
They spent some time playing with their Melissa & Doug Caterpillar Gear Toy.
While they were playing, we talked about how gears starts with the letter G.
My girls do a LOT of gardening with Grandma.
Today we pointed out how all of those words start with G.
For dinner, we made some Gnocchi. I love me some gnocchi.
Anyway, since it was letter G day, we made it with Gruyere and garlic.
My girls like to help with shredding the cheese – at least for a minute or two – and also with using the garlic press.
Ingredients:
1 lb. gnocchi
6 oz. shredded Gruyere cheese
2 to 4 cloves pressed or diced garlic
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
In a small saucepan, melt the butter. Add the flour and stir until smooth.
Add the garlic and let cook on low for a few minutes. Don’t let it burn because it will become bitter.
Add the milk and let it come just to a boil over medium to high heat, stirring occasionally. As soon as it starts to bubble, stir in the cheese (except for a handful) and turn to low.
Cook the gnocchi according to directions in a separate pot. Once done, drain and stir into cheese sauce.
Place in a serving bowl and top with reserved cheese.
Note: the garlic taste is strong. If you don’t like garlic, you can reduce the amount or omit it altogether.
Here is the free printable PDF of the recipe:
I loooooove spice cookies!
SO much awesome food at one time!
Anyway… we used my Norwegian Spice Cookie recipe, but added in some extra ginger in the form of ginger crystals.
I liked the taste of the extra ginger, although I’ll probably just stick to the normal recipe when I usually make them in the future.
If you want to add in a little crystallized ginger, crush it up a little and throw about a tablespoon or two in when mixing in the other spices.
And, as you can see in the photo below, we not only made traditional gingerbread men, but also some letter Gs with out alphabet cookie cutters.
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We had actually purchased a regular FROZEN Easter egg dye kit from the supermarket, and we did use it.
We used the egg wraps and cardboard Olaf egg stands and Elsa and Anna stickers….
But we made our own version of FROZEN Easter eggs, too.
We’ve made these cracked eggs before, and called them dinosaur eggs, but this year we called them Elsa’s Cracked Ice Easter Eggs.
Because we can never have too much Disney in our lives. :)
The process is surprisingly easy:
1. Make hard-boiled eggs. Cool completely.
2. Crack egg shell all around by gently rolling the egg on the counter with just enough pressure to cause cracking without causing the shell to detach or the egg inside to break or split. (Admittedly, the eggs my 3yo did definitely split through – but don’t worry, they’re still totally edible.)
3. Put the eggs with their cracked shells into a plastic baggie. Generously add food coloring in your color choice (blue is best for “ice”) until the shell is covered in the food coloring.
4. Allow to sit for a few minutes.
5. Dump the colored eggs, along with their still-attached shells, into a mesh colander and rinse with cool water in the sink until the excess food coloring is washed off and the water runs clear.
6. Splash the eggs in the colander with a little white vinegar (optional) to help the color set.
7. Gently peel the eggs.
You’re done! Except that I usually rinse them again, just to make sure I’ve actually removed all of the little shell pieces.
Store them in the refrigerator and eat them within 4 or 5 days for the best freshness.
Peeling off the shell and revealing the cracked pattern underneath is really fun for kids.
My 3yo didn’t want to touch the eggs, but watched with great interest as her 5yo sister and I peeled them.
Even the inside of the removed shell looks amazing!
And they taste just like regular hard boiled eggs. The food coloring doesn’t change the taste or anything. I’ve eaten them just like that, with a little salt, for breakfast, and also made them into deviled eggs.
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And you can see all of our Letter F projects at Letter F Alphabet Activities.
Here are all of the printable PDFs for the Letter F. They are free for home and classroom use, but please don’t sell or reproduce them.
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Welcome to Letter F Day!
If you haven’t read the Introduction to the Alphabet Activities, you should start there.
Don’t forget to check out the Letter F: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids, too!
This F is for Flamingo paper craft is really one of my favorite letters.
It must be a Floridian thing. I have a special place in my heart for flamingos. :)
Anyway, to make this, I cut out a lowercase F ahead of time and some feet, wings, and a beak, then gave my daughter those pieces and a googly eye and let her assemble the bird.
I also cut out that cute itty bitty flamingo in the bottom corner. Just ’cause.
For our letter sorting activity, I cut out two fish and cut out the letters on light blue paper in the shape of circles to represent bubbles.
These flower fingers were inspired by a similar idea I found in a craft book dating from my childhood.
What I did was cut out some green paper to resemble the shape of uppercase T. That “top” of the letter T would get wrapped around our fingers and the rest would function as the flower’s stem.
I also cut out some flower and leaf shapes, and we glued them all together to form our flowers. Then, after letting the glue dry for a few minutes, we taped that “top” part of the T that I mentioned into a circle so that we could slide that part over our fingers.
Of course, the flower petal part of our finger puppets were a little heavy. They drooped a bit, but, really, the girls didn’t mind. It was still a lot of fun for them. To fix that particular problem, though, you could use thicker paper (card stock instead of construction paper) or add a Popsicle stick or something for support.
Now, this F is for Footprints project was a really, really huge hit.
And super simple.
One of my favorite combinations. :)
To make the paint for the footprints, you simply combine 1/2 cup cornstarch with a 1/2 cup of water, and mix it together with a fork. Then drop in a bit of food coloring.
{If you’re using a nonstick pan to make the paint, be sure to mix it with a plastic fork.}
I made two colors in two cake pans, because the cake pan was big enough to hold my kids’ feet. But they were both pretty young the first time we did this – so be sure to check your pan/bowl against your kid’s feet.
Anyway: throw the cornstarch paint container out onto a driveway or sidewalk or deck, let the kids step in the paint and then trek colorful footprints everywhere.
And to really highlight the letter of the day, I made an outline of a giant F on the driveway with painters tape. The girls had fun filling the F with messy footprints.
Oh: and you may need to stir the paint occasionally. That’s why you see my daughter carrying around forks in the photo. The paint IS – technically – edible. But I wouldn’t suggest testing out the taste. Ick!
Okay, okay … this was kind of cheating.
We had some foam frames and foam stickers left over from a birthday party craft … so I just let the girls go ahead and make another frame apiece.
I guess you could get really into the alphabet thing and just stick letter Fs all over the frame, but we kinda just added this into our activities as a fun little project, putting their names at the bottom of the frame and going to town with the flower, animal, and instrument stickers over the rest.
Another option, however, would be to just use the foam flower stickers. Which would also look nice.
This worksheet was really fun for them.
I picked up some feathers at my local dollar store, but they were kind of long. Longer than the letter F if you laid them horizontally on the paper. So I cut them into pieces for this project.
That may have something to do with my OCD, though. You could also just use 3 feathers to make an F.
This is one of the free printable worksheets I made, which you can download at Letter F: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids. If you have feather stickers or a stamp, you could use that instead, but I find that the texture of the craft feathers is part of what made it really interesting.
As you may have noticed, we live in Florida.
So, coloring Florida’s Flag was a natural for Letter F Day. But you could also do Finland, Fiji, and/or France instead, if you preferred.
Either way, you can get some printable flag coloring pages at World Free Printable Flags, including the Florida Flag.
We don’t actually make Sound Boxes for every letter.
We probably should, but the reason we did it for F is because F is a big letter for us. It’s the first letter of my oldest daughter’s name. So it’s a pretty exciting letter in our house.
Our F Sound Box included flowers, forks, fruit, fish, an F alphabet block, some paper flags, and a Ferrari.
Our Sound Box was inspired by the “Sound Box” books the series by Jane Belk Moncure. They’re kind of hard to find now, so I’m glad I picked up a couple when I did years ago, although you can still sometimes find them on Amazon:
We used the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Honey Whole Wheat Bread. You COULD get it on Amazon, which is what I linked to, but it’s kinda seriously pricey, so I suggest checking your local stores first. I only include the link because it helps me to visualize what I’m looking for if I can see it first.
What I actually suggest is – if you can’t find the Goldfish bread in the store – just use fish shaped cookie cutters to make your own fish shaped bread, kind of like when I made Fall French Toast in the shape of Autumn leaves.
This was a simple lunch. I warmed up some frankfurters {turkey dogs count!}, sliced them into three pieces, and formed an F with the pieces on the plate.
Then I added some fruit. A mixture of fruit would have been nice, but the only fresh fruit we had that day was watermelon, so that’s what we ate.
Since we did so many activities for Letter F Day, dinner was also {like lunch} simple.
I threw some frozen french fries and frozen fish sticks on a cookie sheet and baked them up while I made a salad. {A “fresh” salad??}
Anyway, this particular meal is always a hit with my kids, but before we ate it, I made sure to make a game out of searching for all of the letter Fs on the boxes of the fries and fish sticks.
This was a pretty dessert, but also super, super sweet.
Why is it called “Fairy Fudge?” Well, I named it for Fairy Bread, which is a slice of white bread covered with butter and colorful sprinkles. But what we did here was make white chocolate fudge and cover IT with colorful nonpareil sprinkles. My kids LOVE sprinkles.
The fudge pictured above was from a rather unsuccessful recipe {waaaay to sweet and not the right texture at all}, but I’ve come up with my own recipe for Vanilla Fairy Fudge which is SO much better!
Okay – that’s it for Letter F Day, except for my Letter F: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids, of course!
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This is a fun little activity I did with my girls to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
I cut some hearts out of black construction paper and drew on them with white and silver colored pencils to show my girls how it looked.
The fun mini hearts look like little chalkboards and my girls were delighted with how the light colors looked so vibrant on the dark hearts.
They spent quite a while drawing on the hearts and experimenting with different colors {though mostly after I took the photograph}.
The picture shows just a few of the hearts, but one of the things I also made sure to do was to cut out hearts in varying sizes.
And next time I’ll probably let them help me cut them out, but this time they were too busy coloring. :)
Roaming Rosie 