Letter C

Here are some activities we did during C week:

• We baked cookies for lots of people we know whose names begin with the letter C!
• During naptime one day, I cut out 10 circles from colored paper and taped them around the house.  When Asher woke up, I told him to go hunt for the circles.  I thought 10 would be plenty, but I really should have done 50!  He loved it and I was continually taping them back in different areas to keep the activity going!  When we were done, we taped them to the floor and counted them.  You could also do different sizes and colors and sort them.
• Using 3 different sizes of jars/cans, we stamped circles using paint and the tops of those cans.

• We also used sidewalk chalk (a staple in our house) to draw very large shapes on the driveway.  I pointed out the circle and wrote "circle" inside it.  Then we walked around the "perimeter" (new vocabulary word!) of each shape, jumped inside and outside the shapes as I named them, etc.
• During our playgroup one day, we read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and made caterpillars from egg cartons.  The caterpillars are really easy to make: cut out a section of 3 from an egg carton.  Have the kids paint, then attach pipe cleaner for legs and antennae and either draw eyes or glue on googly eyes.
• At the end of the week, we took a "field trip" to our local Casey's General Store to buy some chocolate with coins (this was my husband's idea - and probably the best one for C week as my son still gets excited to go to Casey's and get some chocolate!)