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Fun Ways to Play with Store-bought ABC’s

August 18, 2015 By Thaleia

Day 2 of our five days series to help parents and educators learn about new fun ways to play with ABC’s. This series is for all ages birth to grade 6 so stick around to see all the amazing activities for all the ages.

Today I am sharing a fun way to use a store-bought item to create an alphabet activity. Last Summer I spent lots of time during garage sale season searching for a cheap barrel of monkeys. I found two partial sets which gave me enough monkeys to write a letter on each one. To see what else we added to this fun activity check out our Barrel of Monkeys Letter Match Game.

We hope you join us each day this week as we share some fun ideas for Handmade ABC’s, Seasonal ABC’s, Sensory ABC’s, Natural ABC’s, and Store Bought ABC’s. Each day I will be featuring one of my own projects as well as the projects of the other bloggers!

ABC Cards Games for Tots from Creative World of Varya

Alphabet Free Play from P is for Preschooler

Magnetic ABC’s Learning Fun from Teach Me Mommy

Board Games Do Enhance Learning from Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading

Barrel Of Monkeys Letter Match Game

August 17, 2015 By Thaleia 7 Comments

I am sure you are all familiar with the classic toy Barrel of Monkeys! I had one barrel but that wasn’t enough for this letter match game. I scoured garage sales all last Summer to find some more monkey’s. Why you might ask? Cause I am too frugal to pay full price for something I knew I could find much cheaper. I was going to be at garage sales anyways so it was simple to add to my list.

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Upper and Lower Case ABC Matching Sticks

August 16, 2015 By Thaleia 12 Comments

Today I am going to share with you a very simple activity to practice upper and lower case ABC. I had two sizes of popsicle sticks and leftover scrapbook stickers. Sometimes an educational activity practically falls right into your lap. This activity used items that we had leftover from other projects and so the cost is negligible. You wouldn’t even need stickers if you have nice handwriting! I do not care for my handwriting or the time it would take for me to write tiny and neat so I choose to use stickers.

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ABC Play the Dr. Seuss Way

February 22, 2013 By Thaleia 4 Comments

ABC Play the Dr. Seuss Way

I decided to try a few things Lil’ Red had not done before that went along with ABC Play the Dr. Seuss Way. (just had to rhyme a little) I will share a collage of photos for each activity and explain where it came from or what we did during each activity.

This ABC Match-up was an activity from a busy bag swap that I did when Lil’ Red was around 7 mths. old. We had families with young infants up to 4 yrs. old in the group swap. The variety and skill level difference for each activity was great to have things stored up and now we are ready to use them! The neon green sheet was printed and then laminated. The ABC cards are dimensional glitter foam stickers put on cardstock squares. Lil’ Red liked this idea quite well and loved it when he “won the game!”

This activity I made over a decade ago, right after I graduated from college. I made this activity with metal juice lids, vinyl ~2″ letter stickers and magnetic alphabet. I had recently dug this out and it had been sitting on our back porch waiting to be played with. Some of the lids and magnets are missing but I have another 3 sets of magnetic alphabets on the back porch to remedy this. Will just have to save a few more juice lids. The letter stickers my husband had brought home from his work which was throwing them away!

This is one of those great dollar store puzzles again from over a decade ago! I have a numbers one as well. I do not know if/when Lil’ Red has played with this puzzle. I talked with him about the rows being a certain color to help give him a clue plus as to where to put a letter. I would sing the ABC song over and over again pointing at the letters and stopping on an open space.

We still have more ABC activities to pull out from my ABC BOX (again from a decade ago). We have wooden ABC puzzles with tiny knobs, wooden blocks, Boggle Jr., Word Whammer, Braille ABC magnets, ABC sticker strip, ABC small erasers, texture letters, and a start of sound boxes.

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