Felt Letters are Fun to Make and to Play with

I always wanted to make a set of felt letter pillows/sofites for my daughter. I did make felt letters to use on a felt board, but I never made the stuffed version. It seemed like an awful lot of work — and I’m sure it is, but probably not as much as I set it up in my mind to be.

And there are lots of fun things you can do with stuffed felt letters, some of which are explored in this tutorial post from Buggy and Buddy. She didn’t make the whole alphabet either (or hadn’t at the time of writing, anyway), but was using the letters to help her daughter recognize the letters in her name and to begin to learn how to spell it.

Even a partial alphabet would allow you to play with some sight words, spell the names of members of your family and invent games using the letters. Plus they’re just really cute.

Have you ever made a felt alphabet, stuffed or otherwise? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Buggy and Buddy.]

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Halloween Alphabet Activities

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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