Letter C Activities

E(2) received a Letter "C" Fun Pack a few weeks ago with crayons, "C" printables, cat stickers, and a cat puppet kit. We've had lots of fun doing "C" activities ever since...

Painting a "C" printable with her dot painters.


Playing with Clay. This was SO much fun!


They rode a cow train.



We looked at cotton in a cotton field.


We made a cat puppet.


E(2) is VERY proud of her cat!


E enjoyed finding C objects in the corn sensory bowl.


Playing with the clock puzzle was so much fun!


A yummy sandwich cat for lunch!


So much fun playing with cows and cats.


Matching cloud cards (from Montessori Print Shop). I love to hear sweet little E say words like "lenticular" and "stratocumulus." So, so cute!


Coloring a C printable.


Playing Candyland! This was tons of fun. We played twice in a row and would have played a couple more times if we hadn't had to go get O from school.


E LOVES to play with the cash register!


Putting coins in her piggy bank.


Playing with castle blocks


We saw cows at the fair (and ate cotton candy).


Matching her cats to her cat book


Putting together a cat puzzle.


E dressed as a cat.


E dressed as a cupcake.



We had so much fun with the letter "C." We're skipping around a bit, and we're now on our second week of "P" activities!

Sight Words Puzzles

O(5) is experiencing a surge of interest in reading (after more than a year of being mostly uninterested), and we are having lots of fun with it!

In order to give O a fun way to practice sight words, I printed off a list of the dolch sight words and gathered all of our tray type puzzles. We (my mom and I) wrote a word on the back of each puzzle piece and then wrote the same word on the corresponding place on the tray. O chooses a puzzle piece, reads the word, and then finds the matching word on the tray. She LOVES this activity, and she is really getting good at reading sight words!

I love how simple and quick this was to put together. The idea for these sight word puzzles came from this blog via Pinterest (love Pinterest!).

I'm planning to make an ABC version and a numbers version for E(2). What fun!

O's Halloween Puppets

O(5) and I have really enjoyed having "O and Mama Craft Time" after E(2) goes to sleep at night. We usually spend about 30 to 45 minutes crafting and reading. One our first projects was sewing Halloween puppets from a Family Fun craft kit (that I bought after Halloween last year from WM). O loves to sew, and this was lots of fun for both of us.

We made one puppet per night for 3 nights of "Mama and O Craft Time." After she finished the puppets, she decided to draw pictures of them in her drawing journal.

I spelled the words for her for the ghost and witch drawings.


I had to bite my tongue to not correct her when she was writing the "E" in Wendy. I'm so glad that I didn't correct her...I love the 6 lines on the E!

I encouraged her to sound out the words herself when she was writing "Scott the Skeleton." I love how she wrote it! What a treasure these imperfections will be once she is reading and writing with ease!