This week we have continued our painting fun and also combined this with becoming more familiar with letters.
We are starting with the letter A.
Firsty I printed out a sheet of paper showing a large capital letter A, a lower case A and a picture of an apple.
I placed this together with other examples of the letter A, magnets and sponges etc, that I found around the house.
W and I then spent a few minutes looking at these before getting on with the painting.
I then put out a couple of blobs of red and green paint in an old food tray, and a few marshmallows.
We have had great fun using different materials to paint with, toilet rolls, potatoes and pom poms, but I suspect this may have been a favourite as he got stuck straight in. Thankfully, not having seen a marshmallow before, he didn’t try to eat them either!
I tried to encourage him to stay between the lines a bit but, to be honest, he is still a bit small for that and as long as he enjoys it I wasn’t too fussed.
Here is the final result…
If you would like to have a go yourself you can download the sheet for free here: A is for apple
For more play-based learning ideas why not check out my Pinterest boards and my Learn to Play Page .
Now, what shall we do for B? Any suggestions folks?
That’s a really cute craft and would be great for my 3 year old. He knows his numbers but is struggling with his letters.
Oh I hope it helps. It is still a good excuse to buy a bag of marshmallows anyway! 😉
Bless what a fab idea. We are not on letter yet with my 3 yr old but I love the idea of doing this later on with him
Oh great! We had a lot of fun with it so hope that you will too.
What a really cute idea. Have you seen our letter B post? I’m sure that was the one when my son painted himself as a Bee lol.
That sounds like great fun! Will pop over and check it out.
Thank you – we got stuck on U – must continue it