Happy Spray The Alphabet Garden For Toddlers

For our Weekly Virtual Book Club this Week nosotros are talking most all things GARDENS! It is Garden Week as well as nosotros volition hold upward exploring bloom gardens as well as vegetable gardens as well as embedding some simple garden themed learning activities into our days equally well.

There are as well as then many dissimilar types of gardens. "A garden is a planned space, unremarkably outdoors, laid aside for the display, tillage as well as enjoyment of plants as well as other forms of nature." (source)

Today nosotros are sharing a unproblematic bloom chalk garden action that helps kids larn to recognize alphabet letters!

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As nosotros larn most gardens this week, nosotros volition hold upward reading some unproblematic children's books most them too. The Tiny Seed past times Eric Carle is our featured majority for the week. In The Tiny Seed, Eric Carle shares all most the life cycle of a flower.

Using the bloom theme, nosotros adapted our pop "Watering an alphabet garden" action as well as changed it to a squelch or spray the alphabet garden activity.

MATERIALS NEEDED TO SPRAY THE ALPHABET GARDEN

spray bottle or squelch bottle
Book: The Tiny Seed past times Eric Carle
water
chalk
flat outdoor surface (or chalkboard)

HOW TO DO OUR SPRAY THE ALPHABET GARDEN ACTIVITY

To gear upward this activity, yous require to bring your kid commencement depict some chalk flowers. If your kids don't desire to depict the flowers or are likewise young, yous tin depict them for them.

Next, add together alphabet letters within each flower.

Once the chalk flowers are created, mitt your kid a spray bottle or squelch bottle amongst water. Say the lift of an alphabet alphabetic quality as well as encourage your kid to spray the alphabetic quality that is called.

This is such a unproblematic means to function on alphabetic quality identification. If your kids already tin position the letters, displace proverb the alphabetic quality audio as well as come across if they tin spray the right alphabetic quality associated amongst that sound! This helps your kid practise 2 dissimilar of import skills needed for agreement the alphabet.

Once the flowers are all washed away, depict a novel alphabet garden as well as displace again!

WAYS TO THIS ACTIVITY ADAPT FOR OLDER KIDS

For older kids who already know how to position letters as well as sounds, write words on each bloom as well as bring them practise unproblematic sight words or other words that they require assistance reading.

Having the squelch bottles is as well as then motivating! My kids beloved reading when they acquire to squirt the words!

After you're done spraying the chalk alphabet, your kids tin acquire as well as spray your actual garden too... fifty-fifty if it is a bunch of weeks. My kids beloved watering our rockrose.

MORE SIMPLE GARDEN LEARNING ACTIVITIES

You tin detect to a greater extent than unproblematic garden themed activities from our weekly virtual majority guild co-hosts as well as on our Toddler Approved blog. Here are a few for yous to displace out this week! Click on each link below for the total tutorial.

Go hither for 14 of our favorite Garden themed activities!