Happy Rainbow Caterpillars {Name Matching Activity}
January 01, 2019
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This calendar week we're having fun collecting bugs therefore I idea we'd percentage a few põrnikas crafts as well as activities. Since toddlers as well as preschoolers honey to jibe things as well as honey their names, nosotros decided to brand about Rainbow Caterpillars using our names.
Although I honey creating as well as displaying arts as well as crafts projects, my kids typically love activities to a greater extent than than crafts. This projection is form of a combination of the 2 as well as my kids actually enjoyed it.
Materials Needed: colored cardstock, scissors, markers, large drawing paper, googly eyes (optional: piping cleaners for antennae or legs)
Directions:
First I cutting out a bunch of circles/ovals using rainbow colored cardstock as well as therefore I traced the circles onto long white drawing newspaper therefore that in that place were plenty circles for each of my kid's names. Next fourth dimension I volition convey my v twelvemonth onetime cutting out as well as depict his ain circles.
Once the colored ovals were cut, my boy arranged them inward rainbow colored fellowship as well as therefore began writing the letters of his advert on each oval.
My toddler is merely learning how to recognize as well as spell her name, therefore I wrote the letters inward her advert on her caterpillar oval pieces as well as nosotros talked near each alphabetic quality as well as what they spelled when position together.
I wrote the letters of her advert on each colored oval as well as therefore I too wrote her advert on the traced circles on the drawing paper. After she played alongside her circles a bit, therefore she proficient matching the letters of her advert (on the ovals) to the letters of her advert on the drawing paper.
She too added googly eyes as well as antennae (we kept the feet off for this activity) as well as had fun making her advert i time to a greater extent than as well as again.
Simple activities that tin locomote repeated are ever a hitting at our house. You may desire to laminate your caterpillar pieces therefore that they are to a greater extent than durable.