Letter of the week - J

My Little Peanut is 26 months old.

For the past two weeks we focused on the letter J (along with doing many Easter activities).

We practiced writing in our notebook inspired by Tot School.  She did REALLY well tracing the "J"!

As usual, I turned to Pinterest for J craft ideas!

Here is what we ended up doing.

We flipped thru magazines and pointed out anything that started with a "J" and I cut it out.  Since my little one LOVES glue, I cut out a pink J (her color choice) and she glued on each of the pictures.

We also made a fun Jelly Fish by coloring a coffee filter, adding googly eyes and pipe cleaners for tentacles!

One of my little ones favorite activities?  Using Jelly Beans!!

I drew a big "J" on construction paper and together we put dots of glue all over.  She then placed a jelly bean on each dot....and then ate the left overs (only about three of them)!  {Sorry I didn't take a finished product - but will update soon}

Another activity she really enjoyed was something I came up with for the first time this week.  I placed contact paper (sticky side out) on our easel.  I then cut out 10-15 "J" from various pieces of paper (the thicker the paper, the better).

My little one LOVED sticking them to the contact paper.  We used this opportunity to count the J's - by color and total.  I am going to definitely carry this forward.  She kept going back to the board day after day.

Another activity that my little one really enjoyed over and over - using our homemade play dough and "stamping" the letter J.

Similarly, while we baked for the Easter Bunny, we had some left over dough that we turned into a J.

We also dot painted our J pages and colored a good amount too.  She is doing so well trying to stay in the lines and trace her letters.  I see improvements each week - love it!

Lastly, our felt board this week.  A jar with Jelly Beans!!  Again we counted the colors as we added them to the jar.  

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