Day One!

Today was day #1 of our  letter learning adventure! We started with the letter "A" and boy is this going to be an interesting journey! Today, I cut out a capital "A" and a lowercase "a". I had planned to glue grass on them first, and to make them much cuter, but due to Tristan's temperment, I knew we only had a small window of time to work today. I wanted to make the best of what time he was willing to focus :)

So I cut the letters out of pretty scrapbook paper. I always keep a random supply on hand. Any kind and color of paper will work, though. Then I got black paint and squirted a tiny amount for dipping fingers in to. We used Tristan's pointer finger and made three dots right in a row. We did this is several places around the two letters. Then we drew legs on them to make them ants. We talked about how ants starts with "A" and how we have two kinds of letters...capital (or uppercase) and lowercase. Tristan really enjoyed making ants. As you can see in the picture, he did some totally on his own ;)

Another idea which would work great if you have one is to use a stamp pad instead of paint. I just try to use supplies that I already have.

You could also, for older children, have them cut out three circles for each ant, then glue them and make the legs and antenna. That would help them with cutting and gluing as well.

There are many things that I wish we had done differently, but this is what we got! Tristan knows what an A is and he had fun. Mission accomplished!

Tomorrow we will be making a yummy Apple treat!