| Below are some inexpensive ideas
for surrounding your child with meaningful letter activities
at home. |
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Surprise you child with letters in fortune cookies. |
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Put a letter in a picture snow globe. |
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Make your own letter photo books, a "B Objects" |
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Let your child finger paint different letters. |
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Give your child a box lid filled with a layer of salt,
to write letters in. |
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Show your child how to make letters with a pipe cleaner
or Chenille stem. |
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Have your child make letters with play dough. |
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Make letter pretzels. |
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Buy some letter stamps for your child to use. |
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Look for favorite letters in the newspaper. |
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Buy large cardboard letters to make puzzles out of at
craft stores. |
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Draw a letter on a piece of paper, say it's sound. Have
your child think of a word that starts with that sound.
Write that word for your child to see. |
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Write letters on a piece of paper in dots. Have your
child draw over the dots to complete the letter. |
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Make straight letters with craft sticks, E, T, H, A,
M |
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Have your child look for the letters in her name on
road signs. |
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Cut letters out of pieces of sandpaper, for your child
to trace with their finger and to also use for making
letter rubbings. |
