J, who is almost 4, does pretty well with letters, but he still gets some confused from time to time, so I like to do Alphabet games with him every once in a while to reinforce it a bit.
The weather is starting to warm up, so I decided to take him outside for a little game with ABC’s.
Like most of my activities, this was really simple.
I hung up a big piece of white paper on our fence, and wrote letters with washable markers.
I then handed him a spray bottle of water and asked him to spray certain letters.
He was excited to see that the letters started to drip and melt off the page. Â He thought it was “way cool”, and sprayed the heck out of the rest of the paper.
He ended up not really caring much about naming the letters. Â He just wanted to make them drip and disappear. Â We did talk about each letter as I wrote it though, so he got some practice.
Sometimes activities don’t quite go the way you expect them too…oh well. Â We still had fun and we did practice letters, so that totally counts as a success in my book!
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Fun! My 3 year-old loves to use the squirt bottle so we’ll have to give this a try.
I was just looking for an activity with squirt bottles too! I’m not a teacher but I think just being exposed to the letters is beneficial. Even if they’re not consciously naming them, I believe it’s still sinking in. : )
I’m not a teacher either, but I do know that exposing kids to letters is the fist step for reading. I think it’s still sinking in too 😉
What is this paper called?