Ideas and resources
February is Child Dental Health Month and a great way to celebrate is to use this project to teach kids about their teeth and dental hygiene. All you need is pink construction paper and miniature marshmallows! Also included on this page is a fun song kids can sing along to while they make this craft.
Learn how to make this mouth craft: Marshmallow Mouth Craft
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!
[Photo: Life Over Cs]
Or if you didn’t want to use marshmallows – how about some of those polystyrene packing chips we always find inside a package? Then you could cut them to make smaller teeth for the front ones, and leave them large for the molars!
You’re right! Those would make great teeth and would be a good way to recycle those pesky things.