We continued our alphabet this week with the letter K and some fun kite activities!
Keep scrolling to see what Sweet E and I did this week, or take a look back at similar themes from Honey Pot and Little M&M's tot school days.
Introducing the Letter K
A couple weeks ago I started creating these fun pages to introduce Sweet E to the letter of the week. Sometimes I change up the activities--this week she needed to trace the K, stamp it, poke it with a giant pushpin, build it with playdoh, and paint it with a q-tip.
She loves the variety of activities, and the repetition of the letter is really helping her to learn it!
Here is the completed page!
We hung it up above her craft table (which is now in the living room so we can be nearby big brother and sister while they're doing schoolwork remotely). And later in the week as she was looking at it, she asked to do it again! So she traced over her K in a new color, stamped it again, rebuilt it out of playdoh, painted it with a new q-tip and paint color...
And then she wanted to use the pushpin again. So I cut out the playdoh portion and drew dots along it for her to poke through.
Kite Math and Fine Motor Practice
This idea and free printable comes from Teach Beside Me. Sweet E needed to read the number on the kite, and add that many beads to its kite string (which was a pipe cleaner to make it easier for small hands).
This was great practice for her! But quite a large project. We did a few together, and left it out on her table for a few days.
She returned to it two or three times to finish it up!
Until they were all done! She was so proud of her work, she asked to take a picture of it herself. Though I didn't include those here because her fingers were in the picture! 😂
Letter K Dab Worksheet
Sometimes while Honey Pot and Little M&M are doing their work for school, Sweet E asks to do "homework." Though we do activities throughout the week, she likes to have a worksheet or two to feel like a big kid. So I found these great FREE printable dab sheets from Teachers Pay Teachers.
And she loved it!
Sensory and Alphabet Review
I pulled out the kinetic sand (which, along with playdoh and paint-with-water books, are always at the ready during quarantine). Then I hid the letters we've learned so far inside. The toy girl with a kite were added just to keep in theme lol.
Then I printed a kite coloring page and added the letters for her to match up to the ones she finds in the sand.
She loves burying things in her kinetic sand to find, so she enjoyed doing this.
The letters came from a game, and had magnets on the back, so they didn't slide around as she was placing them.
Fun, quick activity!
Paper Bag Kite Craft
We did this during Little M&M's kite week, and it was a lot of fun, so we did it again. First I had Sweet E decorate a paper bag with markers and stickers. Then we taped on some streamers, and added a string (held inside the bag securely with a craft stick).
Then we took them outside and ran around the house with them! We loved watching the streamers blowing around behind us.
Little M&M and Honey Pot each made one too!
It was a pretty windy day! So when we were done running around, we tethered them to the umbrella pole and trampoline, and watched them blow around while we played outside. A lovely end to our letter K week!
