Happy Alphabet Jibe & Drop
December 18, 2018
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My vi twelvemonth onetime is currently obsessed alongside the game Connect Four. We beloved having household unit of measurement competitions together with at i time my 3-year-old likes to drib the pieces into the grid i time again together with i time again together with i time again together with play alongside us too.
Since my 3-year-old immature lady also loves alphabet activities, nosotros decided to practise this fun alphabet jibe & drib game using our electrical flow obsession... Connect Four. Scroll downwards to come across how y'all tin role it without a Connect Four grid too.
Materials:
All y'all remove for this alphabet jibe & drib game is either Connect Four (pieces & grid board) addition ABC stickers OR closed to bottle lids together with a cardboard box (plus ABC stickers).
How to play:
Add alphabet stickers to your Connect Four pieces (or bottle tops if y'all don't convey Connect Four).
Then mix the pieces upwards on the flooring or on the tabular array together with campaign together with discovery the matches!
Once y'all discovery the match, drib both pieces into the Connect Four grid! Then search for a novel jibe together with practise the same affair again! We played until all of the matches were dropped into the grid... thence nosotros released them, allow them fall, together with started over again.
If y'all don't convey Connect Four y'all tin but set sparse slits inward a box together with convey kids drib the alphabet bottle caps into a box instead.
As before long every bit nosotros started playing this game my 6-year-old had to bring together inward together with "help" alongside the matching every bit well. My 17-month-old also wanted a turn, thence the big kids gave him the matches together with they allow him drib closed to of them into the grid every bit well.
Note: If your niggling i likes to set things inward his mouth, concord off on this game until he is a fleck older.
This alphabet jibe & drib activeness is a unproblematic means to innovate kids to alphabet letters inward a fun way.
If your nestling isn't laid for matching alphabet letters yet, y'all could but jibe stickers alongside pictures on them or colored point stickers.
My 6-year-old boy made this activeness fifty-fifty harder for himself past times trying to spell words alongside the pieces commencement together with thence dropping them into the grid. I beloved how Mom to two Posh Lil Divas shared how they played Sight Word Connect Four. That is closed to other keen activeness extension for older kids.
Do y'all convey whatsoever other favorite unproblematic alphabet activities? What nigh favorite games? What games practise y'all similar to play together?
Here are a few of our electrical flow favorite alphabet activities y'all tin try...
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