Letter E Activities Part Two - Elephants and Eggs

I put together a basket for the letter E.  With the last basket, I ended up finding more items over the course of the week, so some days Kate would find different things in the basket.  That will probably happen with every letter.

I was surprised that Kate enjoyed Elmer.  I thought the book might be too long for her attention span, but we have read it several times.  

I cut out a contact paper elephant, and gave Kate some tissue paper and googly eyes to make her own Elmer.

I love the autumn leaves in the background of this picture.  This time of year is just so pretty.

I have a little elephant vegetable cutter that I used to cut out cucumber elephants.  Collin, Reagan, and Kate ate almost an entire cucumber.  Reagan dipped hers in sweet pepper hummus.

I also plated Kate's scrambled eggs in the shape of an uppercase E.

Kate LOVES Elephant and Piggie.  We have read more than just these two, but the others are in her room and she is napping!  I also thought she would like to see some pictures of real elephants, so I picked up Elephant by Caroline Arnold from the library.  We haven't read any of it, but we have spent some time looking at the pictures (and that's all I intend to do with Kate).

I printed letter E Do a Dot pages, but Kate wasn't interested in them.  I think I'll wait a while before reintroducing any printables.  She has plenty of time for that later on.

E is for Elmo

We started letter E activities today.

 This is the same red play dough we have been using since our letter A activities.  I used our Elmo sandwich cutter, an orange bottle cap, and some cotton balls to help Kate make Elmo.

 I let her use paint with a cookie cutter and sponge to make Es on paper.

If you ask Kate what sound E makes, she says, "buh" (as in the sound that B makes).  So, as I have said before, this is an introduction to the alphabet for her!

In addition to the letter E activities today, I put some shaving cream and washable paint in a bin for Kate to play with.  She would NOT touch it, so I put my hands in and let her see how much fun I was having.  She still wouldn't touch it.  As a matter of fact, at one point she fell forward and her hand landed in the shaving cream, and she cried for me to wash it off!

So I gave her some paper straws and let her play with it that way.

I couldn't resist taking advantage of this marbling opportunity, so I put a piece of thick white paper on top of the swirly shaving cream and let it sit for a while before I scraped off the shaving cream and let it continue to dry.  Once it dried, I cut out the letter E.

I also made Kate a squish bag with a little shaving cream and some red sparkly paint.  I thought she might like this better since she didn't have to get dirty.

She played with it for a little while, but Collin played with it on and off throughout the afternoon and evening!!!  He is a huge fan of any and all sensory activities.