Letter F Hunt

 Scavenger Hunt for the letter F.  Plus more letter F fun.

For our letter F activity day here are a few of the things we did today:

Make Letter F using forks

Since Fluttershy knows her letters so well I gave her the forks and asked her to make the letter F which she quickly did.  Rarity needed a little help but caught on quickly.

Introduce Same or Different

Gather 2 different pairs of shoes and place them in front of you.

Hold up the shoes that are alike and tell your child that they are the same.

Take a shoe from each pair and explain to your child that while they are both shoes that they are different.

I had my kids hunt out two items that are the same in the house and two items that are different.

 

Letter F Hunt

Write the letter F (capital and lowercase) on a piece of paper and tape it to your child's shirt.

Give your child a magnifying glass and tell him or her that he or she is now a letter F detective.

Explain that his or her mission is to hunt through the house and find all the letter F's.

Tell your child to look in books, on signs, posters, and other places where there are words.

 As you can see this was their favorite activity of the day.  After the first find they were hooked. 

 

Letter F Coloring Page

Colored a F coloring page.

Starfall - Letter F

Watched Starfall’s letter F video.

F Videos

Watched these two short Sesame Street videos about the letter F.  

Trials of a Tadpole

Watch this short interesting video about tadpoles.

Making a oil and water bottle

These neat little bottles I saw on science-at-home  and thought the girls would love to make them. (sorry for lack of pictures)  These were among the lost pictures.  It's too bad too because they had so much fun making them.  

 1. Fill an empty bottle to 3/4 full with water.

 2. Fill up most of the rest of the space with baby oil.

 3. Add a little bit of food color.

 4. We added bits of foam paper we cut up into triangles, glitter, sequins, and a couple of sail boat erasers.

 5. I put in about 4 teaspoons of glycerin to slow the water and oil mixing (optional)

6. Use a glue gun to glue the lid on and let the kids go.

My book of colors

 

My book of colors

My girls love having little books to carry around especially Rarity.  Since she doesn’t know her colors yet I thought we’d make her a color book. 

You need:

2- 5”X5” colored cardstock

8- 5”X5” white cardstock.

8 paint color samples.

Ribbon to tie for binding

We took our cardstock with the colored pages on the outside and tied ribbons on for their binding.  Next, I had the girls cut the color paint samples and put them in the order they wanted.

Next we used packaging tape to past them on the pages and I’d write the name of the color on each page.  So simple and the girls love them. 

Dot a letter

 

We’ve found some new resources for preschool worksheets.

I am really excited to have found some new sites for preschool worksheets.  The first site School sparks has some very nice looking worksheets. They are different than what we usually do.  It'll be fun to change things up a bit. 

Our next site was tot school  do a dot letters with dot markers.  This is a nice activity for hand coordination.

Today we did:

• M practice writing sheet 
• M coloring page 
• M maze
• What starts with m
• Which words start with me
• Dot a letter

 Fluttershy really enjoyed  these new worksheets.

I have to apologize for the lack of kids on my pictures.  My memory card got corrupted and I lost all my photos.  I retook these while they were napping.  I try to get my posts done when they are down.

Sorting

Sorting Pasta

Here is one of the easiest sorting activities you can easily make. For those of us on a tight budget this a nice activity.  I purchased 4 types of pasta $.88 a bag at the grocery store and dyed each type 4 different colors.  This way I can have my kids sort in a few different ways.  

• By color
• By pasta type 

 To dye your pastas:

Use 1 Tbsp of vinegar with several drops of food coloring.  I put mine in a zip lock baggy so I can put the pasta in with it and just shake it.  The kids love this part. 

Play-doh Made with Kool-Aid (Top play dough recipe)

Play-doh Made with Kool-Aid

Second time (even better)

We've  tried making Kool-Aid play dough before and it was neat, but this time 

was even better.  We found a recipe that was so smooth it reminded me on the real

Play-Doh you buy in the store.  We got our recipe from around town sue a link we got off of Lesson Pathways.

 Play-doh Made with Kool-Aid

Ingredients:

• 2 c. flour
• 2 c. water
• 1 pkg. (.17 oz.) unsweetened kool-aid mix: orange, berry, lime are best (do not use grape - it turns out sort of gray in color)
• 2 tsp. cream of tartar (you can substitue 1/4 tsp of lemon juice or white vinegar for each 1/8 tsp of cream of tartar. Be aware if you use vinegar, the play-doh will have a vinegar smell)
• 1/2 c. salt
• 2 tsp. oil

Add Kool-Aid to water in pan. Add remaining ingredients and stir together. Cook over medium heat for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Play dough is done when color deepens and it comes together in a ball. Turn onto a plate to cool and cover tightly to store. Store in zip-loc bag.

Elastic painting

 

Elastic Art

You'll need:

Cookie sheet or cake pan

Card stock

Elastics

Paint

 

There are a few different ways to go about this.  First apply the paint.  We first tried putting paint on a piece of cardstock and rubbing it under the elastics to give the elastics paint.  Next we tried just using a paint brush with paint and painted the elastics.  I think using the paint brush was easier.

Next place a piece of cardstock on the cookie sheet and under the elastics. 

Last, flip the elastics for some neat paint effects.  They turned out really cool.  Kind of different than most types of painting.  It’s a bit messy, but oh so much fun.  Make sure the kids are wearing a apron.  We used Crayola washable paints just in case.

 Then we just had to finger paint.

Lesson Pathways: D & E Egg painting

Egg Painting

Pathways Letter D for Dogs

Dog Mini-Book:

• Sheets of dog from link
• Scissors
• Stapler or hole punch and yarn

Things That Start with D Mini-Book:

• Printer
• Paper
• Crayons or colored pencil
• B&W Book template from the bottom of the page
• Stapler

Introduce Big and Small:

• Two different sizes of crackers or cookies such as little goldfish and big goldfish

Pathways Letter E for Elephant
 

What Begins with E Mini-Book and Coloring Page:

• Printer
• Paper or cardstock
• Crayons or markers

 Elephant Finger Puppets

Make elephant finger puppets with your child and write the letter E on the elephants. Put on a puppet show and talk about how elephant begins with the letter E. 

 Lacing Beads

  

Egg Painting

This wasn't in the lesson pathways lesson, but I thought it would be fun

We took a egg and added food coloring and finger painted.  When they dried the paint had a neat shine.