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Sweet Pea is 36 months old.

From: The Activity Mom did this quick letter matching activity, which I think originally came from Crunchy and Green.

Material:

Alphabet stickers.  (You can get these almost anywhere.  We found ours at Target.)
Letter matching worksheets.  (Start with the partial alphabets worksheets on the top row and only use the complete alphabet if [...]

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Sweet Pea is 35 months old.

From: Erika from Confessions of a Homeschooler often posts an individual Do-A-Dot letter worksheet when her tot is learning a particular letter (P for example), but I had trouble searching her site to find all of the letters.  I also searched the web, but was surprised that I couldn’t find [...]

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Sweet Pea is 35 months old.

From: I am not sure where I first saw this idea, but This Little Project posted about a letter matching egg game and Crunchy and Green also posted about it, along with some other good ideas for plastic eggs.

Material:

26 Plastic eggs.
Permanent marker.
2 Baskets or bowls.
Egg carton.

Procedure:

On the top half [...]

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Foam Puzzles

Sweet Pea is 31 months old.

From: We got this set of 4 foam puzzles as a gift from Sweet Pea’s grandma.

Material:

Foam Puzzles  (I couldn’t find the exact set that we were given.  Here is a link to an uppercase and lowercase puzzle that Carissa from 1+1+1=1 recommends.)

Observations: These foam puzzles are perfect for [...]

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Drawing in a Sand Tray

Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: A traditional Montessori lesson involves showing children how to draw letters in a tray of salt.  I saw this activity using sand instead of salt at Chasing Cheerios.

Material:

Strong shallow box or a jelly roll pan.
Non-toxic sand or salt to cover the bottom of the box.

Procedure:

Pour the sand [...]

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Sweet Pea is 27 months old.

From: I found these Bottle Cap Letters on Carissa’s Tools for Tot’s page.  I got the idea to use Mod Podge on them from this post at Heather’s Eager Little Mind blog.

Materials:

Several washed and dried caps from gallons of milk.
Mod Podge.
Small paintbrush.
2-3  Milk Cap Alphabet Sheets (.pdf file requires [...]

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Sweet Pea is 25 months old.

From: Sweet Pea’s chunky 4 and 5 piece puzzles were getting too easy for her so I picked up this letter puzzle from Target for about $10.

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We have been doing a “Letter of the Week” for the past couple of months. Each week I draw a letter on a piece of paper and put it inside a magnetic pocket on our fridge. During the week I’ll show the letter to Sweet Pea and we talk about what it is and what [...]

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