Our letter Y projects that we completed a few months ago must have got lost in our move, so we re-did them in a very simple way. I just drew some pictures of a little baby yelling and yawning and we colored in huge Ys with different yellow hues for Y is for yellow.
We completed two Letter Z projects recently which were really cute.
1. Z is for Zoo
All you need to do is cut out animal pictures from magazines, glue onto paper, and then we made construction paper cages around them. Cute and easy and some practice cutting and gluing too.
We colored our background green so the animals who like to munch on and walk around in the grass would feel right at home.
Contrary to what that plate looks like, we didn't use paint. We just reuse plates and that one is currently being used for glue. Because it's time to glue on the animals!
Finished products!
2. Z is for Zipper
This project was simple. Just some rectangles and I let the girls draw on their zippers. Kayla's looked most like an actual zipper, of course, but Elise and Ava did good work and creativity, people--not perfection! Then I cut out some small and smaller rectangles which they glued together for the actual piece of the zipper that you hold to open and shut it. I helped the younger two with cutting one "zipper" open half way, but Kayla did hers.
Making their zippers look like the letter Z
That's Ava's that you can see best in the foreground there.
Finished products
And that completes our ABC crafts books....
except that Kayla is the only one who is actually done. Elise is through the second half of the alphabet and Ava started doing the craft for the last 5 letters or so. So we'll begin the alphabet again and re-do many of the projects that Kayla did in the past 3 years or so with her younger sisters instead so they can complete their own alphabet book filled with their own artwork during preschool/Kindergarten as well.
It should go a lot faster now that I don't have to look up crafts on Pinterest and/or make up my own. We can just look at the crafts we've already found/come up with and re-do them for Elise and Ava. The girls have loved doing our Alphabet Saints and our ABC craft book over the years and it's a great teaching resource plus it's filled with memories of fun crafting that we've complete together. Looking back at Kayla's this morning after we completed it was pretty emotional for me. She's grown so much in the time it took us to complete this book and seeing projects that I remember her doing when she was just 3 or 4 years old was making me tear up (not that it takes much...).
