Letter "T" projects

Just a few projects for letter "T" to add to our ABC book....

1.  Trees

Easy peasy: all you need is a penciled basic outline of a tree, paint, and Q-tips and you can make a sweet tree for letter T!  My 5 year old made a plum tree, while the 3 year old and 2 year old made apple trees. 

2. Turtle

Example 1: 

This was done by my 3 year old.  We focused on naming colors and shapes while she glued them on in any manner she chose.  Great for fine motor skills (gluing on the little pieces) and practicing colors and shapes. 

Example 2:

 This is my 5 year old's. We are homeschooling her for Kindergarten and are currently working on patterns.  Each row she made up a new pattern to practice and she cut out the turtle body and head to practice scissor skills.  She knows her colors and shapes, but of course, you can always review those too, because why not?

3. Tulips

Cover a piece of paper in paint of all colors (be sure there is a good amount of green for stems!) Once the paint is dry, you can cut the green section into long, skinny rectangles for tulip stems and the other colors into tulips.  I cut out the basic tulips and my 5 year old cut the tops zig zag to practice her scissor skills.  The 2 year old merely painted, the 3 year old painted and glued on the tulips and stems (hers is the picture at the top) and my 5 year old painted, cut some parts, and glues hers and the 2 year olds.  Fun project, pretty result.  We made some of the tulips into little cards to send to people since we had extra tulips.  :)

4. Trains

 

You need 3 rectangles (1 big, 1 medium, 1 smaller), 2 small triangles, a sqaure, and 4 circles. 

5 year old: I drew outlines of the shapes, and she did the cutting herself and glued the train on and drew all the train tracks (on both pictures actually because she got so excited)

3 year old: I cut out the shapes, and we worked on shape recognition and following directions as I verbally directed her to glue to the pieces on the paper.  I did need to show her a few times what I meant, but we worked using phrases like "place the circle next to the other circle" or "place the little rectangle on top of the medium rectangle".  

Lots of fun with letter T!

Letter R projects for the ABC Book

As we continue to slowly creep through the alphabet (yeah, we started letter R a loooooong time ago-like sometime back in April, but then Easter and sick happened, so....) , we have finally finished our letter R projects.  I used to post each one at a time, but it seems to me more helpful to have all the projects for each letter in one post, so now I wait till we are done and the only post that is separate is the Saint for each letter.

1. R is for Rabbit

Cut out a little rabbit shape, we crumbled a little tissue paper for a tail, and the grass adds some fun texture for the little ones.  I did the cutting of the grass for my 3 year old and she just "fluffed" it to make it look like grass, but my almost-5-year-old did the cutting and fluffing herself.  They both did all their gluing.  

2. R is for Robot

This project was great to enrich the kids on their shape identification as well as let them be creative. I showed them a few pictures on the internet of what a robot is, gave them cutouts of various sized shapes and let them be creative.  Both the 5 and 3 year old did a great job and I was impressed with their finished products-100% them. 

3. R is for Rose

We have done this rose project using romaine lettuce bottoms before , but I wanted to do something we hadn't done yet, so I used an idea I'd seen on Pinterest.  

You simply use glue to make the outline of the rose and let it dry, then use water colors to paint.  Above is my 3 years olds.  My almost-5-year-old did not want to touch the glue lines when she painted (she's learning about trying to stay in the lines in her coloring books these days), so her rose had a whole different (but also beautiful) effect.  I love them both. 

 

 

4. R is for Rain

The girls both loved the last project so much, we added a similar one for "rain".

And they keep asking to do more of this kind of painting (success!)

5. R is for Rosary

This is not the first Rosary project we've done either, but I wanted one that was unique and new for the girls to add to their ABC book, so we made up a new idea, but you could also do our rosary constellation project or this Our Lady of the Rosary project for "R is for Rosary".  

We made a "shape rosary" using various shapes for the Hail Mary beads in each decade and for the Our Father/Glory Be beads in between decades.  We had fun saying our shape rosaries, decorating them, and working on color and shape recognition at the same time.  And of course, it was all a lovely prayer-holding hands with Mary-learning about her Son, Jesus.