The Balloons need to go with the presents but they’re all mixed up! Match the letters in the balloon to the letters on the present to connect the balloons with the right present. Ollie (4) loves presents, birthdays and balloons so he thought this was great!

For him, since he can’t read, I read him the names of the animals having birthdays and told him the story of the letters on the balloons getting mixed up and he needed to figure out which balloon went with which present! This does not require a child to be able to read but rather just identify letters and match! Happy “party” Friday!

I had Ollie do/finish this in the car while we brought Max to school in the morning! It kept him busy the whole time. We ran out of paper towels this morning so I just used this recycled roll, wrote all the uppercase letters on it and the lowercase on the dot stickers and he matched!

We have been practicing Ollie’s (4) letters and letter sounds over here so I made him a quick “decorate the egg Bingo” while matching the letter sound activity.  I called out a letter sound and he put a sticker over the letter to decorate the egg. Simple, Easy.

This fun SNACKTIVITY works on how to correctly form the letters in your name. The goldfish crackers need to “swim” in the direction that the letters go! Super simple yet effective! I hope you can try it at snack time today! 

Only color the letters in your name!  This activity is so magical because you are unable to see the heart before you color (swipe to see before photo).  I told Max that there would be a surprise in the picture if he followed the directions:) The best part is that they don’t realize all of the letters in their name are around the middle in a heart shape so they are visually seeing and identifying other letters while looking just for theirs!

It is easy to do. You first draw the heart shape of hearts and fill those in with the letters in your child’s name. Then make hearts all over the page surrounding that heart. Then put all the other letters of the alphabet (besides the ones in their name) in all the rest of the hearts. I just went through the alphabet A-Z filling the hearts and then repeated while leaving out the letters in Max’s name. The letters of your child’s name should ONLY be used in the heart formation!

I’ve been noticing I have had a lot of marker and paper activities lately:) I guess I really am loving the simplicity that they bring! I feel it’s a little educational 10 minutes of our day for focus time( working on following directions, staying on task, “being in school”) and then we are free to learn through play!

I drew 52 hearts, enough for each uppercase/lowercase letter of the alphabet. Then I wrote uppercase A-Z on the hearts and then the lowercase. I colored all the uppercase hearts random colors and then Ollie (almost 4) picked a lowercase letter, found it’s uppercase letter to see what color it should be and then colored the lowercase letter the same color! He really enjoyed doing this!!!