Letter L

Here are some ideas for the letter L:

• Leaf ideas - jump in a leaf pile (if it's fall), gather leaves and glue on a piece of paper, put a leaf underneath a piece of white paper and use the side of a crayon to rub over the paper, make a leaf placemat by putting leaves on a piece of paper and putting the paper between two pieces of contact paper (this takes careful work!), gather leaves and sort by size or color.
• Print off a picture of a lamb (find some at http://www.coloring.ws/coloring.html) and glue cotton balls on it.
• Make a ladybug with two paper plates.  Cut one plate in half (good time to practice scissors skills with your toddler/preschooler!).  Color the halves red and the whole one black.  Use a brad to attach the tops of the halves to the top of the black plate to give the ladybug wings.  Add a head with black construction paper and antenna with black pipe cleaner.  Cut out (or punch out if you have a fancy scrapbooking circle puncher) black circles from construction paper and let your child glue them on.  Or, if you don't have black paper, draw circles on the wings and let your child color them (or let your child draw them if they're ready!).

 

• Have your child help with the laundry!  My kids like to help put the clothes in the washer or dryer.  They're not so helpful with the folding...
• Read stories about lions.  Then roar like lions!
• Make lilies with paper and pipe cleaner.  Trace your child's hand on several pieces of construction paper.  Cut out the hands and curl the palms of 1 or 2 hands tightly around a piece of pipe cleaner so that you can staple once through the paper and pipe cleaner (stem).  Then curl the fingers out.