Letter F

We had lots of "F"un during F week!

• Flowers - we didn't do this particular activity, but I found a neat craft in Family Fun magazine (instructions posted below).  What we did do was take a flower sponge and used paint to stamp some flowers across a piece of paper.  Then I had Asher practice drawing lines by drawing the stems with a marker.  Then we completed the picture with some bug stamps and other flower stamps!

  

• Fingerprints and Footprints!  You can do so many things with this.  I had plans to do the following activity with our play group, but we ran out of time and didn't get to do it.  Read Dr. Seuss' "The Foot Book", then roll out a long sheet of easel paper on the ground and have the kids step on a paper plate with paint and walk down the sheet of paper to make lots of fun footprints!  Left foot, left foot, right foot, right!  For fingerprints, use a stamp pad, paint, or just color marker on the fingers and make them into bugs, caterpillars, letters, etc.
• Frogs - the day we did this was a rainy day, so it was perfect for an indoor activity.  Take several paper plates and color them green.  Then cut a wedge in each plate to make a lily pad.  I will insert here that it would be a wonderful and easy opportunity to help your child learn to use scissors with these wedges.  I didn't even think about it until Asher said "I do it!" I helped him get his fingers in the holes and held the plate.  Once he got started with each new cut, he actually did pretty well!  And your preschool teacher will thank you a million times over if you've worked with your child on this skill beforehand!!  Anyway, we pretended to be frogs and jumped on the lily pads.  We have a small toy frog that Asher liked to make jump around on the lily pads too.
• Make a small and simple family tree with photographs and help your child understand some easy concepts about family (like his grandma is actually your mommy).
• Four - do everything in fours!  And practice that counting!