Snake S

If you’ve been following our Letter Learning Journey you will know that we have come to the Letter S. We previously did Spiders but also need something to stick onto our wall of letters so we made a Simple Snake We simply started by drawing a letter S onto some paper and cutting it out. Then … Read more

Spider and Web Kids Craft

If you’ve been following our Letter Learning Journey you will know that we have come to the Letter S. I am very lucky that in my area there are courses put on for adults for free. Currently there is a Halloween Craft one and this is where this idea comes from – you can visit the … Read more

R is RUBBISH

If you’ve been following our Letter Learning Journey you will know that we have come to the letter R. It seemed obvious to do RUBBISH My children are used to recycling because they know which “bins” each products go to (or go for washing up) so I thought we’d concentrate on reusing. I decided to … Read more

Quiet Time

If you’ve been following our Letter Learning Journey you will know that we have come to the letter Q. I didn’t want to do Queen as it seemed too obvious – and besides that was covered under Jubilee I figured that after all the hustle and bustle of  the summer holidays (and for us moving … Read more

Pirate Print

As part of our letter learning journey the letter P covered so many things so we covered quiet a bit as we packed and moved house. P covers Pinterest  and this is where I found this delightful idea of a Paint Pirate  handprint originally from Fun Hand Print Art We painted it all on our hand and then … Read more

POP

Although it may well feel like it, P isn’t just for Packing it’s also for POP Bubble wrap is great isn’t it. You can POP with your fingers You can POP with your feet. You can even POP with your toys! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is part of our letter learning journey brought to you by the … Read more

Letter O

Our letter learning journey has brought us to the Letter O I actually discovered that I have to be careful that the words of the things I pick don’t just start with the letter but the sound I’m trying to teach. I did do Owl – (see Owl bags) but it doesn’t actually start with … Read more

N is for Newspaper

Numbers have been a big feature in this house currently and I did cover numbers when making our owl bags  by making and filling them with number biscuits. I did see an idea (here) where you could introduce how much it would cost to make the biscuits – and then consider whether this cost more or … Read more

Home-made Owl Biscuit Bags Present

These yummy Owl Biscuit Bags were made as a Thank you and Goodbye Present for the Staff at Playgroup but am sure could be adapted for many an occasion. This also coincided with our Letter Learning Journey – and covered N, O & P (numbers, owl and present). For the biscuits we used the same … Read more

Love L – lice, lego and ladybirds

So after seeing Choice chambers on Science Sparks (here) I was really keen to do them with my son – so decided that L could be for Lice. It actually turns out that if you Google lice (as I did to be sure of how many legs to give them) that it turns out lice … Read more