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.]

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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