Letter "Ff" Activities

Arts & Crafts

F is for Fox craft

f is for flower craft

Sensory Play

Fish Decorating Activity.

I set up play-dough, cookie cutters and some embellishments such as buttons, beads, googly eyes, brads, gems, charms, and let her imagination and creativity works.

We used heart and triangle shaped cutter to form the fish's body and tail.

After decorating her fish, she wanted to make other animals so I let her.

A sting ray (according to her)

A snake (according to her)

And this one I forgot what she called this.

She then wanted to make shapes.

All that pinching, squeezing, pressing and rolling is nice for strengthening the muscles in their little hands.

Since this kind of play activity does use small items that are a choking hazard for children under 3. Please never leave your child unattended, especially if your child is still mouthing things.

Letter Familiarization

Letter F stamping using flower stamps. I am so lucky that I spotted this flower stamps at the Expression at Waltermart a day before we had our Letter F activity.

Vocabulary

F is for fruits. We did fruit related activities such as this wooden fruit puzzle.

And fruit vs vegetable sorting activity.

 

Spelling

I made this flower foam that will spell her first name J-A-S-H-L-E-Y, and made a flower pot too using an empty powder milk carton and stuffed with styrofoam inside. I then asked her to arrange the flowers into the pot following the letters that was written on there which is her name.

She called this Jashley's Flower Garden. She had been playing this almost the whole day, and carried the foam flower almost everywhere, she also had this awesome idea of matching her name flower letters with the foam mat letters.and by the end of that day, we where so amazed that she was already able to memorized the spelling of her first name.

One happy and proud Momma here. ;)

Mathematics

Flower counting activity using flower embellishments, play-dough and our number manipulative (you may use a cookie cutter if you have).

I asked her to stamp any number on the play-dough using the number manipulative and pressed the corresponding quantity of the flowers to its number symbol.

 

Bible Story/Character.

F is for Fishers of Men. After reading the story we had these fishing-inspired snack that I prepare.

Preparing them was so easy, I just bought breadsticks and fish shaped biscuits at the grocery, both snacks has dips included in their packaging so all I need to do is to place them on a plate and let the fun fishing begin.

dip the breadstick (aka fishinng pole) and catch your fish by touching the end part of the the breadstick with dips into the fish biscuits.

It's now time to take a nice crunchy bite!

Apart from the fun that this activity bring, there's a lot of developmental skills that the child could benefit with this activity. It is a chance to practice their pincer grasps by grabbing the fishing pole, also a great for hand-eye coordination activity, a chance to expand their vocabulary too by making up stories regarding  "fishing", this would be a nice sequencing activity as well by having your kids tell all the steps on how to “catch” their fish.

Books.

F is for Favorite. After reading this book about Lettice favorite things, we talked about our favorite things as well. And here are some of Lady Bug's favorites according to her.

 

Favorites
Color: Pink
Food: Chicken Joy (AKA Jollibee's fried chicken)
Ice Cream Flavor: Strawberry
Fruit: Grapes
Tv Show: Peppa Pig
Movie: Madagascar
Animal: Cat
Auntie: Tita Sheen

Thanks for stopping by! =)

Letter "Ee" Activities

We wasn't able to do letter activities for a couple of weekend because we were out somewhere during those weekends, and was only able to resume with our letter sessions last Sunday and yesterday.

So without further ado, let me now share the stuffs we did with our letter E activities.

E is for Elephant craft

e is for Elmo craft

Since I have friends who's asking me if I were using templates for these letter crafts, and some even asking for a link were to download it. For the record, all of the letter crafts we did were all hand drawn and pre-cutted by me (I sometimes let Lady bug cut simple and small shapes like the squares and triangles we had on our Alligator and Dinosaur crafts, to practice her scissor skill). But I admit the idea is certainly not from me, I also research and check the world wide web for ideas and inspirations from others.

Letter Recognition

Forming while sorting capital letter E and small letter e using circle sticky labels. I write capital letter E and small letter e on sticky labels, so basically she's not only forming the letters but also sorting it to make her more familiar with their formation difference.

Another letter recognition activity. We had a lot of fun with this white crayon resist activity. I pre-write the letter E and e on a white paper, I then asked her to paint the white paper, you should see how amazed she was when a letter magically appear after she painted it with watercolors. It's now time to asked whether the letter she found was a capital E or small e.

We also did a little math along with this activity, by counting how many the capital and how many small letters we found.

We also had capital & small letter Ee hunting and stamping.

Letter Tracing

Tracing is a great activity to practice writing skill. I just recently found a cheap letter tracing guide at the St. Francis Square in Ortigas, they have it in both alphabets (for 120.00php) and numbers (for 79.75php).

Vocabulary

E is for Emotions. Of all the activities we did this was lady Bug's favorite.

See how happy she was while making different face emotions.

I'll be sharing the step by step instruction on how I made this magnetic emotions. This may look like a complicated one but this is actually easy to prepare.

Materials:

1. Any metal/tin board.
2. Freehand drawn  eyes, eyebrows and mouths on a piece of paper. (I use marker pens so the lines will be thicker).
3. Magnetic sheet/strips.
4. A pair of googly eyes.
5. Transparent packaging tape.
6. Double sided tape
7. Scissors.

Instruction:

1. Cut the freehand drawn eyes, eyebrows and mouths following its shapes, I cut mine not too close on the drawn object so there would be enough space to conceal the strip of magnet at the back.

2. Place a strip of magnet at the back of each drawn objects and wrapped it with transparent packaging tape, then sniff of those extra tape around the object, to prevent it from tearing easily and make it last longer. If you have a laminator machine you may laminate it before atta attaching a piece of magnetic strips at the back.

3. Attached also magnetic strip on the back of your googly eyes using a double sided tape.

4. Finally draw a circle on your metal board.

You can now have fun making emotions with your DIY magnetic emotions.

silly face

scared face

surprised face

angry face

sad face

happy face

After doing this activity, while cleaning up the materials I used in making this project, I found this circle tin can on my storage box. It is actually a candy container from Japan, a pasalubong (homecoming treat) from a friend. Anyway upon seeing the container I knew exactly that this would be perfect for our magnetic faces. This would be a great travel kit activity for kids, since it has a lid it can hold all the magnetic pieces inside when not in use and when using it during travels, the container will hold the unused pieces while the lid can be used to make different emotions.

Bible Story/Character.

E is for brave and beautiful Queen Esther. Again we read the story of Queen Esther on our Kids Bible App and learned how God used Queen Esther to saved his people. After reading the story we made this crown craft using a foam sheets and sticker gems to decorate it.

Books.

Our featured books for this activity was about the Elephant fun and 2 of the Elmer the Elephant series which is Elmer's weather and Elmer's friends (one of Lady Bug's favorite books)

Till our next activity. Bye bye!!! =)