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

The other day I shared some crafts involving fall leaves, but there are a lot of fun leaf-related activities that don’t use real leaves, so I wanted to share some of those, too.

Like these watercolor leaves from The Artful Parent. These are so pretty and would be great to make a garland or decorate the table for Thanksgiving. You could experiment with different kinds of paper, combine watercolors and crayons, use an eyedropper to apply liquid watercolors — there are lots of different ways to play with this one!

Because I’m a knitter of course I love any project that involves yarn, so this fall leaf lacing craft from Our Kid Things is right up my alley. The multicolored yarn they used is a lot of fun, or stick with fall colors. Either way it’s a great fine motor skill activity!

Using leaf shapes to make other crafts is a great way to incorporate leaves into the classroom without having to use actual leaves. For little kids this sensory painting activity from Kids Craft Room would be a lot of fun (I think this would be fun for some older kids and adults, too, to be honest) and makes a fun and easy decoration.

Of course leaf activities don’t just have to be crafts. Check out this great leaf matching game from Made to be a Momma. These leaves are so cute and after you’ve prepped the game you can play it over and over with no prep. Use fewer sets for younger kids and the full set for older ones.

You can also use leaf shapes in all sorts of learning activities, like in this fall leaf number tower activity from Fun Learning for Kids. There are leaves with single numbers on them that kids can use to stack cubes on in one-to-one correspondence, as well as ones that show dots like dice so kids can add up the numbers to build their stacks.

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