The do it activity blog

As a parent we always find ourselves feeding these little humans. Therefore, we spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Often times, they are right behind us to find a way to help in the kitchen. Lets give this sweet character a sweet thing! Lets make cookies! You would need letter cookie cutters and any flavor cookie dough you or your family likes, and optional frosting, sprinkler or cookie decorations. Before putting it in the oven have your little baker use the cookie cutter on the cookie dough. Have him say the letter he or she "cut out". Do the letters of their name. Have the child say or read the names. Do this with other family members, like siblings or pets. Teach them to spell the word mom and dad with this activity. Get really creative. This is great for reading and letter sounds.  Once all the letter are cut out, it is time to put it in the oven. Please, please, please follow the directions on your cookie dough box or wrapper for this part . As I do not know the type o

Hide and seek letter find. We can go out every weekend. So imagine now trying to entertain the kids during summer. This is a very inexpensive way to start beginning letters. Place different letters or sight words in areas that is not visible. Place them in hiding spots. Then give your child a list of the letter or items you placed for them to find as in a scavenger hunt to find the letters.  This is good for reading at the end they can practice writing it on the bottom of the paper. 

Planning on going to the beach but don’t want to stop the learning? We’ll you don’t have to!  Seashells are a great reading and writing tool. I know you haven’t heard of it but I think you should try it. To begin, let’s start with the drive. I remember as a kid looking out the window on the way to the beach. Maybe you live close to the beach less than 30 minutes but I live an hour from it. I will stare out the window or play eye spy with my siblings. How about instead of these things you read out the appropriate street signs to them to help with the reading. Including street exists or anything with words. Tell them look this sign or street says ____; and you fill in the blank with the word you read. Now you made it to the beach, they go in the water, they plan with sand toys and you still need activities to do. No problem, I got you! Remember to bring sight words flash card appropriate for their ages. First I think the whole family should write their name on the sand either with their

  Summer is coming up and let’s admit to each other we need things to do. These kids do not like being stuck at home and especially bored! So we need fun creative activities to do with them. For this blog we will discuss family activities and creative ways to engage your kids imagination.  For this first activity it has to do with fine motor and hand eye coordination for early writing skills. This will help little wittters strengthen their fine motor when it is time to hold a pencil. However, I would like to incorporate reading as well.  As you can see I did mines out of cardboard cut it very small, added some circles with markers using different colors. The colors that I had in paint as well, and placed it on an easel. Then on a miniature paint palette I added the paint. Now using the Q-tips as a paintbrush, I dip the Q-tip in the paint and match the circles on the cardboard with the color of the paint and the marker. To incorporate reading, I would do the same but add a letter to the