JQ

Here are our latest two groups of letter activities. I saved some of these more random letters until the end since I wasn't sure how many great activities I'd find. Surprisingly, I still uncovered some treasures! Pinterest is a wonderful thing. :)

Letter J

Outside on our driveway, I had Jaden and Cody draw groups of shapes-- circles, triangles, squares, crosses, etc. Then, I told them which shape to begin with and asked them to jump (here's the letter J connection!) to a new shape.

They were very enthusiastic jumpers. It turned out to be great exercise!

After a few rounds of jumping, we changed up how we moved from one group to another. We tried sideways walking, backwards walking, twirling, tiptoeing, crab walking, and army crawling.

Things got really interesting when Cody and Jaden devised their own methods of moving from one group to the next! I was surprised with how long the boys were entertained with this simple activity.

It was a little difficult to determine what to glue to our letter J for our tactile alphabet book. I ended up printing off various clip art of Jesus and having the boys practice their cutting skills.

After this, we used dot painters to decorate paper plate jellyfish.

I thought their brightly colored jellyfish turned out pretty cute!

Letter Q

For our tactile letter Q page, the boys painted dot designs with Q-tips. Once the paint dried, we affixed one Q-tip to the line of their letter Q.

Both boys patiently filled in their entire letters with dots.

I wasn't sure how interested Jaden and Cody would be with this next activity, but they surprised me. We made paper quilts! I started by cutting out tons of squares with some patterned scrapbooking paper that I rarely use. We talked briefly about how patterns are often used in quilt-making. Finally, I gave them a large sheet of butcher paper, glue, the paper squares and let them create.

It was interesting to see how Jaden laid his squares down very neatly in a very obvious ABAB pattern.

Cody's quilt pattern was a little more abstract. :)

Both boys were quite proud of their completed quilts.

The final Q activity we did was from the Measured Mom. I printed off greater than, less than, and eQual (there's the Q!!) signs decorated as crocodiles and taught the boys a little about these symbols. Then, we used Duplos and coins to create number comparisons. They caught on to this concept pretty quickly.

Only 3 more letters to go... stay tuned for XYZ! :)