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Here are all of the printable PDFs for the Letter B. They are free for home and classroom use, but please don’t sell them.
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Letter A Day was our first Alphabet Activities day.
My OCD really wouldn’t have let it happen any other way. :)
Anyway, if you haven’t read the Introduction to the Alphabet Activities, you should really start there.
And don’t forget to check out the Letter A: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids, too!
One of the first letter projects we ever did was an American flag.
And it really stuck with her.
To this day, my daughter points out the flags, excitedly shouting, “An American flag!”
The project itself was simple: I cut out red stripes, a blue rectangle, and punched out some white stars ahead of time. Then I showed my daughter a flag and she copied it in paper.
There are plenty of other flags you could do, too. Just to name a few: Austria, Australia, Argentina, and Afghanistan. Also, Alabama, Arizona, Alaska, and Arkansas.
I always do a letter sorting project where I print out both capital and lowercase letters ahead of time.
These letters were cut into apple shapes. {Don’t laugh at my apple trees!}
You could easily hand write the letters instead. Honestly, my printer gives me more trouble with construction paper…
This was a fun snack.
I cut some thin slices in an apple and used an A cookie cutter to make little apple ‘A’s.
And I ate all the scraps, too. :)
I’ve made these a bunch of times, usually for potlucks.
I’m not posting a recipe since it was all ready-made supplies {or you could substitute with your favorite homemade recipes}.
Check out the step-by-step photos:
I used a 2-inch flower shaped cookie cutter to cut pieces out of store bought pie crust. I placed the flower crusts in greased muffin tins. Then I scooped a few apples from a can of apple pie filling into the crust. I topped it with a generous sprinkle of my Cinnamon and Sugar Mix, and baked them according to the pie crust directions.
These little pies are always a hit.
Chocolate is a favorite in our house, so these chocolate acorns, it should go without saying, were also a hit.
The great thing is that they also work well for autumn-themed projects. I’m thinking of making them again around Thanksgiving.
As you can see in the photos, the ingredients are Hershey’s Kisses, mini Fudge Stripe cookies, and miniature chocolate chips.
I melted some chocolate chips in a baggy to act as the “glue” to hold it all together. Then we stuck the flat end of the Kisses onto the bottom of the cookies and let them sit for a minute to set. Then I put a drop of melted chocolate on the top of the cookies, and my daughter attached the kiss to the top.
Store covered… if you have any left.
Click here to get the free printable Letter A: Free Alphabet Worksheets for Kids.
And here are some of the supplies I’ve mentioned in this post, including the star punch, letter A cookie cutter, and fudge stripe cookies:
I’d love for you to share if you’ve done any of these projects with your little ones!
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Welcome to my Alphabet Activities section!
My kids and I have been practicing the alphabet through Letter Days, exploring one letter a day through food, games, activities, and worksheets.
I originally began posting about them on Squidoo (which is now HubPages), and posted about half of the alphabet there. But that site keeps changing their format, so it’s just easier for me to redo everything here, to start from scratch. Besides, I’ve created new worksheets and edited the format of the old worksheets to make printing easier. Not only that, there’s new stuff here you won’t find there – which is why I didn’t include the links to the old articles.
For each letter, I’ll be posting about activities and recipe ideas and also a list of all the free worksheets I’ve made. The worksheets posted below are all in PDF format and are free for home and classroom use – so enjoy!
I would usually spend one full day doing projects on a letter, or spread it out over a few days. Although even if we did just one Letter Day, we’d still continue discussing that letter for the next couple of days.
To begin each Letter Day, we glue a letter into our alphabet binder. We have two binders that are quite full, with all of the paper activities separated by A-Z dividers.
I almost always do at least two construction paper crafts that include making a letter into something (an H into a horse or a Q into a queen, for example) and a letter sorting activity where my girls need to separate capital from lowercase letters onto two shapes.
I do cut the paper down, though, before we do the projects. I make them 8.5″ by 11″ and then use a 3 hole punch after we’re done to help them fit in the binder.
I used to cut out the construction paper pieces ahead of time, too, and just let my girls glue them on and sort the pieces however they liked. My girls are older now, though, so they can cut more of the pieces themselves. It’s up to you how you’d like to do it, depending on the age of your children.
We also do worksheets that include tracing letters, tracing lines, mazes, color matching, letter searches, and much more.
Sometimes we do a traditional craft indoors, sometimes we run around outside and dig in the dirt. And we pretty much always cook and/or bake something.
But whatever game we play or whatever food we eat, we always talk about the letters. If we’re eating gnocchi because it’s Letter G day, we take the time to find the letter G on the gnocchi package.
We usually do collages, too. But not always, so I don’t plan on including them in each post. When we started, my daughter wasn’t able to cut out shapes yet, so I spent some time cutting pictures out of magazines after she went to bed.
The finished collages looked like this:
We used apples, angels, artichokes, and an accordion for letter A; a bison, butterflies, babies, and bells for letter B; and cars, camera, cherries, and cats for letter C. Now that she’s cutting out shapes quite well on her own, though, I’m considering starting the project all over again, but letting her cut out the pictures this time.
Plus, since my girls love being outside and drawing with chalk, we also practice our letters with tracing and coloring in chalk:
Most of these projects use supplies that we have around the house or that are easy to find. Construction paper is a biggie.
Here are some of the things I’ve mentioned in this post, including construction paper, a paper cutter, a 3 hole punch, and page dividers:
But where do I find all of these projects and worksheets that you’ve mentioned?
I’m so glad you asked!
They’ll all be listed right here and under the Alphabet Activities category. I haven’t finished editing all the photos yet, but they’ll be listed here as I post them. Plus, at one point my old computer died and I lost a lot of photos. So now my oldest is a great deal older when than when I started these projects with her, and since we’ve had to redo some of them for the photos (and it’s taken me awhile to get around to posting them) you may notice some age gaps between the photos of my various blog posts. But taking three or so years to post something is just an everyday part of #momlife, right? Right??
Anyway, this is the best page to bookmark (or Pin) if you want to take full advantage of everything, since this is where you’ll find the list to all of the Letter Day activities and worksheets.
… and drum roll please …
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This is one of those activities I love: easy to set up, great for learning, and free.
That’s a hard-to-beat combination. :)
Anyway, while busy in the kitchen/laundry room, I set this up for my girls and was amazed at how involved they became. We’ve done similar things with dried pasta, but we hadn’t used rice for anything in awhile.
I put two large, two medium, and two small bowls on an old cookie sheet. I provided two small measuring cups and two measuring spoons, and dumped some rice into the two big bowls. Then I stepped back.
There was measuring, scooping, pouring, touching, and a general sense of busyness.
And silence.
It was so strange. I’m not used to my 2yo and 4yo sitting so quietly together for so long. But they were involved in their project. There wasn’t even any arguing. No “she’s touching me!”
Just concentration.
It didn’t last forever, of course. Eventually the 2-year-old discovered that the rice made a neat sound as it sprinkled out over the tile floor, and so I wasn’t really able to keep and reuse most of the rice as I’d hoped.
But it was worth it.
I recently sat down with my daughters and “read” some of David Wiesner’s books to them.
I put “read” in quotes because most of these books have little or no words.
But the pictures… well, the illustrations are breathtaking.
I was a little nervous when I first saw them. I was afraid maybe the illustrations were too intricate to hold a preschooler’s and a toddler’s attention.
I was wrong.
My 4-year-old would ask me to tell her the story, and then we’d flip through the book again and she’d tell me the story. My 2-year-old would point out all the little details as we read. They both requested the books over and over.
I’d borrowed as many as I could find from the local library, because I didn’t know yet if they were worth the investment to purchase them. But now I know my girls love them.
I narrowed down my daughters’ favorites to two: Flotsam and Sector 7.
Flotsam is a tale of a young boy who discovers an old camera while exploring the shore.
He digs it out of the sand and develops the film.
What he finds in the photos is, quite simply, amazing.
There are sea turtles with tiny cities growing on their shells. Sea horses watching tiny aliens play. And so very much more.
I enjoy this book at least as much, if not more, than my girls.
Here are some images from Flotsam:
Sector 7 is the story of a young boy visiting the Empire State Building on a school field trip.
While on the observation deck, he meets a curious character: a mischievous cloud.
They become fast friends and the cloud takes the boy to on a trip up into the sky. They visit Sector 7, the Cloud Dispatch Center, where clouds receive their instructions about how they should be shaped and where they are to go.
The boy happens to be an artist, and the clouds happen to love his sketches. The clouds decide to replicate these sketches, and mayhem ensues.
Here are some images from Sector 7:
While those two are our favorites, Wiesner has some other gems as well. Similar books include:
On Tuesday, strange things happen. This Tuesday, lilypad-riding frogs take to the skies, exploring the town by air.
In Free Fall, a young boy falls asleep with a book in his arms and visits magical, far-away lands and the knights, castles, and dragons within.
In Hurricane, two young brothers see a tree fall to the earth during a storm. It becomes their playground, representing everything from a pirate ship to an exotic jungle.
In June, 29, 1999, a young girl’s science project of vegetable seeds is launched into the atmosphere, has an extraterrestrial encounter, and we find out what happens when lima beans loom over Levittown and artichokes advance on Anchorage.
This is another one of those activities that just kind of happened on its own.
My kids were coloring on the kitchen floor, and, for whatever reason, my daughter decided to go into the pantry and take out the bundt pan. Then both of my girls started filling the hole in the center with crayons.
I realized this was good for developing their fine motor skills (and keeping them busy while I was otherwise engaged in the kitchen), so I encouraged it.
They would insert the crayons into the hole, and once it was full, I’d show them they could pick it up, move the crayons, and start again.
You could use just about any small or skinny object for this: pipe cleaners (maybe cut shorter), pom poms, small toys or balls. Heck, you could even pretend it’s a volcano, and use small dinosaur toys. Let your kids get creative and pick what they want to use. Or compile a bunch of small toys and let them experiment to discover what will fit.
If you’re new to our Alphabet Activities, please read the Introduction to the Alphabet Activities first!
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I’ve seen a few versions of this around the web, and I decided to make my own.
I picked up a couple of $1 flexible photo albums/brag books at Walmart and some dry erase markers. My girls love markers, but, even though these things wipe right off the book pages, they do not wash easily from clothing and carpets. So, the next time I’m at the store, I’m going to be looking for some dry erase crayons.
Anyway, the books themselves were a big hit with my girls. My 18-month-old pretty much just scribbles over the pages, but, because even at these young ages they both have to have exactly the same things, I made the same pages for both her and my 3-year-old.
The only difference was the first page, on which I drew their names in dashed lines to make them easy to trace. My 3-year-old LOVES this.
Then I created pages that had other activities, like mazes, lines to trace, and coloring pages that included learning opportunities, like shapes and counting.
I cut plain white computer paper into 4″ x 6″ and slipped them into the pages of the photo album. The first 5 pages had activities, but then I filled the rest of the book with blank pages, so they could draw whatever they wanted on those pages. In the future, I’ll probably add more pages of activities.
When the girls use them, I provide a paper towel for them to wipe clean the pages, but you could also use a small sponge or an eraser made for dry-erase markers.
This October, I decided to incorporate my daughters’ love of chalk into our Halloween activities.
The result?
Chalkboard pumpkins!
These were so easy. I started with a can of my trusty chalkboard spray paint, and picked up 3 foam “carve-able” pumpkins from the Dollar Tree.
Since the pumpkins were a bit porous, I did a few more coats than I normally would. I placed them on some old cardboard, sprayed the bottoms first, then turned them over and sprayed the top.
Did 5 coats over the top half-ish. Let the paint dry between coats, of course. Then took them, and a box of chalk, outside. Did some crafting in the fresh fall air.
The girls spent a lot of time decorating their pumpkins. Spent some time wiping off the designs with a damp paper towel, and then drawing all over them again.
The pumpkins are decorating our house now. And they’ll be re-decorated themselves a few times before Halloween even gets here. But, because they’re pumpkins, we’ll probably leave them out for Thanksgiving, too.
One thing important to mention, is that we did initially play with these outside, but they’re really indoor decorations because of the material the pumpkins are made from. But you could always use something different if you want to display them outdoors.
And just for informational purposes, here is a photo of the half-finished pumpkins, to give you an idea of what they looked like while they were being painted:
Have fun – and let me know if you try it! :)
Oh, and here are our Halloween crafts from last year!
Plus, read about the Digital Wasabi Tape I used in this post.
This project was featured at:
I’m a big fan of pretend play. I mean, kids do it anyway on their own, and it’s just so much fun to watch them play with toys you helped create. For example, I made a whole set of post office/letter carrier pretend play items.
And my girls love pretending to put on makeup. I don’t wear a lot, but they always want to put on moisturizer, foundation, powder, or even Chap Stick.
But I don’t really like them to wear actual makeup. They don’t need to be clogging up their pores at 1 and 3. And I think it’s important for them to understand that they don’t need it, because they are beautiful without it, BUT they want to be like mommy. So: pretend play.
I used one of my old compacts from the Clinique City Base Foundation line, that they no longer make. I’ve been using it for years, since I’m all about convenience. They now make something called Even Better Makeup, which is similar, so you could use that, too.
They look like this:
Clinique City Base Compact Foundation (photo: Viewpoints.com)
Clinique Even Better Makeup (photo: Bloomingdales)
I transformed a compact from which all the makeup had been used, cleaning out the remains of the makeup and letting it dry. Then I cut down some sponges we had on hand (you can pick up makeup sponges at a drug store), using one brown one to represent the makeup and one white one to represent the sponge that comes in the compacts. That way it would look just like mommy’s compact.
Both girls like to play with it, and there’s no mess! I’ll be making a second one when I’ve used up my current compact.
Here’s my daughter playing with it (while the post office set is also spread across the floor):
Roaming Rosie 