What a week it's been. We survived Thanksgiving and a birthday- my youngest girl turned 1! What a fun time we had with relatives and shopping and celebrating.
Our lives are back to normal now or until Christmas at least. With things calming down, my husband and I decided we needed to work more on teaching our two year old the alphabet. Today I cut out letters of the alphabet on red and green paper (for Christmas of course) and put them up in our dining room.
I didn't do a professional job by any means. I figure in about a week (or a day...) it will be covered in pen, crayon, or some other kid markings. We'll do another alphabet in a few weeks I'm sure. We had another alphabet up in our dining room a few months ago but took it down when the kids did their damage to it. With these alphabets, we ask my two year old several times a day what each letter is. A lot of times she goes through what she knows of the alphabet all on her own.
This wasn't too much of a project for kids, but my two year old liked pretending like she was gluing paper and really liked pointing out the letters. Depending on your child's age, they may want to help.
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I have seen a cute thing done with dollar store alphabet and number cards. You put some narrow cove from (the lumberyard)along your child's bedroom or playroom wall at chair rail height and place another strip of cove parallel to it - approximately the width of the cards apart - just slightly less. The cards can now be bent very slightly and 'snapped' into place and look like a very colorful and professional border along that wall or even around the room. When the child gets a little older change them out for adding and subtraction or counting cards and then move on to multiplication and division.
PS - I e-mailed you a picture of a set my sons did ...
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