Adventures Of Our Playful Home

Never Miss a Post!

  • Home
    • About
    • Contact
  • Playtime
  • Musings of a Mother
  • Play Advice

Letter Hunt and Paint

October 3, 2017 · by: ourplayfulhome Leave a Comment

Okay this little activity was so much fun! It is a perfect way to practice letters in a little ones name. You barely need any supplies and it feels like an extravagant game and art project by the time your doing the activity!

Supplies

  • Paper
  • Scissors
  • Tape
  • Paint (or other coloring tool)

Set up

  • Cut out the letters to your child’s name. (I did this for joy school so I just cut out the first letter to each child’s name.)
  • Tape the letters around your house, or a room. This should feel like a treasure hunt.
  • Set up a decorating area at the table. I used watercolors. Anything should work, but I would be careful to not let the paper letter get TOO heavy with added decorations.
  • 20170918_103041

Activity Time

I had the girls in a little circle and I told them that I had hid an important letter around the preschool room for each of them. I thought I might have to explain a little more, my joy school sweeties are mostly in their early 3’s, but right away a child pointed excitedly at the S on the chalkboard. As the children found letters I would have them YELL out the letter name. I also helped them sort whose letter was whose. If I were doing this with my child I would have her lay down the letters on the floor or table so we could sort each letter of her name.

This part was such a blast. They LOVED finding the letters. I had even hid 2 extra letters, that didn’t belong to anyone, so they had to think through their name and chose not to grab the strange letter.

 


After we found all the letters we took our letters over to the table to decorate them.

20170919_091530

At this point I had announced it was FREE PLAY but every one of the girls sat right down to decorate their letters. I did a lot of extra letter talk during this play. “Oh I see a lot of black on your P.” “Wow, are you turning your S into a rainbow?” “What letter are you decorating?” Short of repetitively chanting their letter I was constantly repeating them. This is a simple trick to help encourage MORE learning out of simple play. TALK!

TIP!!!! Make sure your sweet child is decorating the right side of the letter….I had a teacher failed didn’t check Genevieve’s G! Oops.

20170919_092701

I had talked about the letter M at circle time in the morning and I was SOO grateful I had cut out some extra M’s because one silly letter was not enough for these girls. They went on happily painting for 30 minutes! It was amazing.

 

 

Share1
Pin

Category: Uncategorized Leave a Comment

❮ ❮ Cereal Box Shapes – Breakfast reused
Crown Decorating ❯ ❯

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Hello! Kelsie here and I'm so glad that you stopped by. "Adventures of Our Playful Home" is a place where I hope parents will find something that will uplift, inspire and encourage them. I also hope to help each parent feel motivated to plan simple and fun playtime activities that will help their children learn, develop, feel confident and strengthen relationships. Lets keep playtime simple and fun! Read More…

Follow Along

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest

Looking for Something?

Recent Posts

  • Active Word Search
  • Salt Tray Painting
  • Bananagrams Hide and Seek
  • Simple Shaving Cream Sensory Play
  • Dinner Meal Swap and the 10 Best Dinners for the Swap

Categories

See what others are looking at!

123's ABC's Age 1 Age 2 Age 3 Age 4 Age 5+ All Ages Art Colors Communication DIY emotions Fall Family family time Favorites food Games gratitude hacks Holiday imagination Kitchen Learning love Math memories Mom Helps Motherhood musings Open Ended Outdoors parenting Patterns Play Play Dough Process Art Sanity Saver Sensory Sensory Table Shapes Small Motor Skills Take a Minute Tuesday toys

Instagram

  • I love when a toy can be used in multiple ways. These tiles are usually used for making puzzle/pictures with but this sweet three year old was completely engaged making up her own pattern. She spent 20 minutes rearranging and perfecting her design. 
I offered her the colored tiles, a blank piece of paper and said go! 
Child lead activities always make my preschool teacher heart so happy!
  • One of my favorite ways to go on a walk around the neighborhood it by the river is to let my girls choose the way. We have ended up in some weird places and going in circles. I try to remember how very little young children are in control of. So many of their choices are made for them. This is a fun and way way too put them in charge.
Everytime we come to an intersection or split in the path I ask a girl, "which way?" Then at the next spot we switch girls. 
On today's walk the two big girls spent a whole minute conversing and deciding. It was so sweet to watch.
  • Today's Take-A-Minutr-Tuesday is a fun, outdoor and educational activity all wrapped up into one!
  • Sometimes it is SO MUCH WORK to get out and do something fun with your kids! Packing up the little people, and myself, for a day at the lake always pushes me to my limit as a mom. 
Today, I  ended up getting really short with my 6 year old out of frustration. After cooling down I apologized and explained, "when we go to do fun things mama has to do a lot of work to make sure we have EVERYTHING we need. No one else really helps. This makes me feel worried and stressed and even mad. I'm sorry i was grumpy with you. Could you help me by buckling your sister in?" Fast forward to 2 hours later when we are all in a little piece of heaven, swimming playing and happy. I'm so glad I took care of something I would have felt guilty about right away so that I can enjoy the rest of our day! 
As soon as you feel Mama guilt for something you handled inappropriately fix it. Apologize. Explain what you're feeling so they can understand. And then move on. No one is perfect and its good for our children to know that includes mama.
  • Merry-half-Christmas everyone... That's in July right? Took some awesome advice from a podcast I listen to, @3in30podcast, and let my 6 year old wear a Christmas dress to church today because this mama doesn't have time to fight with her children about things that really don't matter. 
Made daughters day ✔️
Daughter looked presentable regardless of clothing colors ✔️
Avoided fighting Sunday morning ✔️ There are some things that we don't have to fight about with our strong willed children. So glad I followed good advice today and Said Yes to the Dress!
  • Okay friends, is this a local thing? If it isn't I want to spread it across the country. In my town we have a HEART TREE. I've actually seen heart trees in a few places along the river that runs through our town. They are always two trees that have come from one base. The locals bring rocks, that look like hearts, to decorate the trees with. 
My children ADORE this tradition. Even if we are out of town they will find a heart rock and we put it in a safe place in the back of the car to bring to the tree the next time we walked by it. Anytime we e walking by the river they are on the search for a heart rock. It is a fabulous tradition. I am wondering if anyone else has a heart tree in their town?

Follow me for weekly Mama Missions!

What others are saying:

  • ourplayfulhome on Easy Coffee Filter Flower Crafts
  • building toys for preschoolers                 on Easy Coffee Filter Flower Crafts
  • ourplayfulhome on You Truly Are a Wonder, Women

Looking for Something?

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
Load More...
Follow on Instagram
  • Contact
  • About

© 2018 · Pretty Sweet Theme by, Pretty Darn Cute Design