ABC Adventures – Letter D Part 2

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This week, we celebrated Australia Day so we only managed to squeeze in a few letter d activities.

For our Baking Day, Connor and I baked letter D and Dinosaur biscuits. Connor really enjoyed rolling the dough out, using the cookie cutters, and eating the biscuits.

I was planning to do a sensory table where Connor would have to dig for and find dinosaur bones. Instead, I used Connor’s small dinosaurs and hid them in his sandpit. He loved finding the dinosaurs and, when he found all the dinosaurs, he as me to bury them again. Then he put the dinosaurs in his doll’s pram and took them for a walk around the garden.

 

For our Craft Day, we made a paper plate duck. As a way to reinforce the letter d, we made the mouth out of a letter D.

 

Also, we talked about dogs and how there are different types of dogs. Then, Connor worked on his Types of Dogs puzzle.

Lastly, we played with Diggers and Connor’s Digger Men. Connor has really become fascinated with transferring activities. When I don’t have such an activity ready for him, he walks around with his plastic tongs or tweezers and uses them in place of his hands. Sometimes, he will create his own transfer activity such as the one below where he is transferring his Digger Men from one basket to the other basket.

    

This concludes our letter d activities. Next week, I will be introducing the letter h.  Our main theme will be hearts as we prepare for Valentine’s Day. In the meantime, please link up and share your ABC Adventures!

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Happy Australia Day

Happy Australia Day!

Valentine’s Day Handprint Heart Craft

Last week, we completed our first Valentine’s Day craft. This was a very simple craft which can be done with very young toddlers.

 

Materials Required

• Red Paper
• White Paint
• Scissors

Instructions

Cut a heart out of the red paper. Then, using the white paint, have your child place handprints on the heart. Once the heart is covered with handprints, hang your heart up to let the paint dry. This activity is great for introducing hearts as a shape and the colours red and white.

ABC Adventures – Letter D Part 1

Welcome to our ABC Adventures. If you are new here and would like to learn more about ABC Adventures and how to join in, please see the information at the end of this post.

Last week, Connor was sick for several days. This week, Sarah has started teething with two tiny teeth breaking through on the bottom gum at the same time. Hence, again our week has not gone according to plan. Nevertheless, we got a lot done and had lots of fun doing the activities.

Most of the activities that we did this week focused on dinosaurs. To introduce the letter d to Connor, we stomped dinosaur footprints on to the letter d using paint and toy dinosaurs.

As soon as Connor realized that dinosaurs was going to be the theme for this week, he integrated them into all his free play. Dinosaurs could be found going down the slide with him, having some afternoon tea with him, and even have a bath with him.

One of Connor’s favourite activities was to create a dinosaur from different shapes. I got this simple idea from No Time for Flashcards. Connor was quick to point out that the dinosaur we created resembled a Stegosaurus.

On another day, we created a dinosaur puppet using a paper plate. I cut up a picture of a long-necked dinosaur into four parts which included the neck and head, the front part of the body, the back part of the body, and the tail. Then, I stapled the parts on to a folded paper plate. Connor decorated the dinosaur using left over bits from our Monster collage materials. Following this, I simple attached some string by tying some knots around the holes and a popsicle stick.

Other dinosaur related activities included making dinosaurs from play dough using dinosaur cookie cutters, completing a dinosaur puzzle, and creating a scene with dinosaur stickers.

In addition to integrating the dinosaurs in his play this week, Connor has been pretending to be a doctor. He systematically uses each of the tools in his doctor’s kit to check his teddies and dolls and ends each check-up with a shot.

Next week, we are going to continue with letter d activities. We still have some dinosaur related activities, as well as some duck crafts, baking, and various learning centers (if I have enough time to laminate the materials) to get through. In the meantime, please link up and share your ABC Adventures!

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ABC Adventures – Letter D

Below is an outline of the activities I have planned for the Letter D. We will be using ducks, dinosaurs, dragons, and diggers to learn about this letter.

Letter D Suggested Books

Arts and Crafts

Dinosaur Tracks on Letter Ds with paint

Dinosaur Fossil Craft with Cotton Swabs

Dinosaur Collage – Decorate Outline of Dinosaur

Long Necked Dinosaur Paper Plate Craft

Diamond Necklaces

Shape Dinosaur

Dinosaur Paper Plate Puppet

Learning Centers

Letter D Sandpaper Letter

Letter D Box Hunt

Letter D Lacing

Match Dinosaur Parts Puzzles (Patterns – Visual Discrimination)

Match Dinosaurs to Number of Eggs (Counting 1 – 10)

Prehistoric Patterns (Dinosaur Patterns Scales on a Dinosaur)

Match Outline to Object using Cookie Cutters and Play Dough

Letter D Play Dough Mat

Types of Dogs Puzzle

Dinosaur Puzzle

Ducks Puzzle

Types of Dinosaurs Three Part Cards

Types of Dogs Three Part Cards

Duck Pond Shape Matching

Dinosaur Counting to 5

Games

Play Dominoes

Play with Dice

Digging Up Bones Sensory Table

Doctor’s Dramatic Play Area

Dinosaurs in the Sandpit

Cooking Activities & Snacks

Fossil Cookies

Songs & Rhymes

Puff the Magic Dragon

Hey Diddle, Diddle

Five Little Ducks

ABC Adventures – Letter M Part 2

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During our second week of ABC Adventures, we continued to do work on the letter m. We started our week at full speed, but then Connor became sick and we didn’t get everything done that I had planned.

One of Connor’s favourite activities was making a Monkey paper bag puppet. After I cut the parts out, he coloured the monkey and glued the parts on to the paper bag. Then, he spent a little bit of time playing with it before requesting that it be hung up on our letter m wall.

After we did the monkey puppet, he showed a lot of interest in the letter m printables with the monkey theme. He especially liked matching the coloured monkeys with the name of the colour and sorting the monkeys according to size. Also, although I prepared magnetic letters so he could build words for the letter m flashcards, he only matched the letters for the monkey flashcard. I wasn’t sure how well he would do with this activity because of his age, but he found it quite easy. Since he liked this word so much I stuck it on the fridge so he could do it whenever he pleased.

 

On our Baking Day, we made carrot and walnut muffins. During the post Christmas sales, I purchased a pack of the Wilton Silly- Feet Silicone Baking Cups. Connor really loved these baking cups and insisted on spooning the mixture into the cups himself.

We also managed to squeeze in a Letter M Collage and making dots with bingo markers on a letter m print out. He really got into making the dots on the letter m, so much so that he put dots all over the page and not just on the letter m.

Lastly, throughout the week I read to him several nursery rhymes that complemented our letter m theme. One of the nursery rhymes was Three Blind Mice from a Jigsaw Nursery Rhyme book. Connor completed this puzzle several times during the past week.

We have now completed our letter m ABC Adventure. Next week, we are going to be doing the letter d. Our letter d themes will be ducks, dinosaurs, and diggers! I’m hoping to post an outline of our activities for this letter sometime during the weekend. In the meantime, please link up and share your ABC Adventures!