Happy Spray Your Refer Game
December 18, 2018
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Name activities are ever a favorite at our house. Add inwards a spray bottle in addition to my kids are happy all day!
H5N1 few weeks agone nosotros did a Build a Photo Garden activity amongst my toddler in addition to afterward leaving it upwards for over a calendar month nosotros decided to repurpose the flowers to create this fun Spray Your Name Game!
To larn started you lot only need a few materials!
Materials Needed: laminated flowers (or whatever kind you lot desire to use! cars, trains, dogs, etc), dry out erase marker, spray bottle amongst water, duct tape/painters tape, in addition to a dry out towel.
The goal of our mention activities is to larn kids familiar amongst the letters inwards their name. We speak close the letters, sounds, in addition to survive on identifying them! As my kids come inwards preschool nosotros also endeavour in addition to brand certain nosotros ever start our mention amongst a upper-case missive of the alphabet missive in addition to utilization lowercase letters for the balance of the name.
Prep-ahead
First you lot need to hang your flowers (or whatever you lot create upwards one's heed to use) on the wall outside! We hung ours on our wooden fence, thence I used duct record to the secure it inwards place. You could also utilization painters record in addition to secure the flowers to the side of your house.
Next you lot need to write your child's mention on their flowers amongst a whiteboard marker. The argue I utilization a whiteboard marking (versus a sharpie) is thence that nosotros tin reuse the flowers in i lawsuit to a greater extent than in addition to in i lawsuit to a greater extent than for other purposes AND thence that nosotros tin wipe the letters off in addition to re-write them on equally business office of our mention exploration!
To Play
Since this activeness is all close exploring the letters, I to a greater extent than oft than non only permit my miss spray in addition to speak close her name. She started past times counting the letters inwards her mention in addition to and then going through in addition to touching each letter. If she touched a missive of the alphabet in addition to said the wrong missive of the alphabet mention I would chime inwards amongst the right name. For example, I would nation something like, "You industrial plant life the C inwards the your name! There's a C inwards the give-and-take truthful cat too..." INSTEAD of maxim "no that isn't T that is a C."
Why? Because when I nation "no that isn't a T, that is a C"... my miss only hears "no" in addition to "T" repeated (the wrong way). Since kids oft solely take away heed the offset business office of what nosotros say, it is of import to tell them what nosotros desire them to know, non what they are doing incorrectly.
Here are approximately ways nosotros played...
- spray your favorite missive of the alphabet in addition to nation it (Catie sprays e in addition to says E!)
- spray the missive of the alphabet that makes the audio that you lot take away heed (mom says /c/ in addition to Catie sprays the C)
- spell your mention piece you lot spray (spray C in addition to nation C, spray H5N1 in addition to nation A...)
- spray the letters backwards in addition to nation each letter
- spray the missive of the alphabet mom says ("Spray E", thence Catie's sprays E)
- wipe letters off using a towel, nation each missive of the alphabet mention piece you lot wipe
After playing a diversity of unlike ways my miss only sprayed silent she wanted in addition to sprayed herself too!
This was such a unproblematic activeness to exercise together piece my littlest took his nap!
If your kid loves exploring his name, hither are a few of our other favorite mention activities...
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