We had a few fun activities today to review the letter Y! Keep scrolling to see what we did, or click on one of the links below to revisit similar themes from the past!
Y is for Yarn - 2015
The Letter Y - 2014
Book
Honey Pot and Little M&M were so excited to see that I got this book from the library. They remember it so fondly from a few years ago, when we borrowed it from the library so often. Love this book! Sweet E seems equally as enchanted by it. She asked to read it over and over!
Letter Recognition Activity
In the above book, a girl named Annabelle has a magical box that never runs out of yarn. She knits colorful sweaters for everybody (and everything!) in her dreary town. So I made this Sweet E's magic box of yarn!
And she "knitted a sweater" for our cardboard Y by wrapping it up!
When she wanted to change colors, she'd use her scissors to cut it off. And then she just loved cutting the yarn so much, that she cut lots of little pieces. These we kept aside for an activity later.
Here is her finished Y!
Lacing with Yarn - Number Order
I wrote the numbers 1-20 on a paper plate, and hole punched it below each number. Then I invited Sweet E to feed the yarn through in number order.
She's still learning how to recognize those larger numbers. But she did great!
Sticky Paper Yarn Shapes
For this last activity I drew shapes on our dry erase easel, and covered it with contact paper, sticky-side up. We gathered the pieces of yarn that Sweet E cut earlier in the day, and I asked if she wanted to cover the shapes up with them.
She LOVED this! It seems so simple, but she was really into doing each one so perfectly.
And if she didn't have just the right size yarn, she cut one to fit!
I'll definitely be offering this activity again with another theme. So fun!
One letter to go in our alphabet themes! 😃
