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Mother’s Day Mason Jar Vase

May 7, 2011 by Kristen Stephens 3 Comments

If you have any mason jars lying around your house, this is the perfect use for them! I love the use of paint on the inside, and the handprint on the outside….so beautiful in a child-like simple way.  Is it bad to email this craft to my husband as a hint that I would like one? For all you kids out there, head on over to Christina’s Adventures to get the scoop on how to make one for your mom or grandmother.

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  1. online ice cream says

    May 8, 2011 at 2:53 am

    Hi its really nice one, thanks for sharing us. I was wondering if anyone had any crafty ideas when it comes to making tags to go around the neck of my mason jar candles. I have been experimenting around with printing out tiny fold in half tags. Then hole punching and stringing around the neck of the mason. Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all so much.

  2. kristenstephens says

    May 8, 2011 at 5:40 am

    a great website for printable tags is the blog http://skiptomylou.com

  3. Christina @ Christina's Adventures says

    May 8, 2011 at 6:31 am

    THANK YOU for featuring this! I hope my students parents like it as much as I did 🙂

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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more. 

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs. 

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition. 

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter. 

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters. 

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again. 

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like. 

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there. 

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

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