Letters Of My Name!

I've been wanting to share for awhile all the activities we have been doing to help Tootsie learn the letters in her name.  We were trying a letter of the week type of theme but I found that we were spending A LOT longer than a week on a letter and Tootsie really wasn't that interested.  When it comes to the letters of her name, my name or her dad's name she is very excited so I decided to instead focus on them.  I have a few ideas still to try out but here is what we've done so far.

The letters of her name written on index cards for her to hang with clothespins.

I trimmed some foam sticky letters to make lower case ones.  She "wrote" her name in marker above.

I taped colored hand prints with the letters of her name on them to our wall.  She "high fives" a letter or color as I call it out.  Underneath, we used water colors (food coloring and water) to paint coffee filter flowers.  Tootsie added the circle centers to spell her name.

I wrote the letters of her name on small stones and Tootsie puts them in order.  We tried just lining them up on a small square of paper first but they slid around a lot so then we pressed them in play dough.  It works much better!

Check out Read. Set. Read! for so more great name exploration ideas!

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