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 ...
Teach Your Toddler Shapes with Peg Monsters!
W and I have been having some fun learning different shapes of late by turning it into a game. First we made a peg monster which was fun and super simple to make with your little ones. Simply coat one side of a wooden peg with glue... ...then stick on a large pom pom for a head and smaller pom poms for the body. We then attached two googley eyes to the head. The self adhesive ones are great for this. Now this monster is hungry so we needed to make some shapes for him to eat! I made the following document which I then printed out. This is available for free download here: ...