Are you looking for a way to reuse some of those caps off of your baby food jars? Then here is a great idea. After you clean them simply use a permanent marker and write letters on each cap. I did a set of capital, lower case, and numbers. After you have completed that there are an endless amount of activities you can use them for. Our first activity was very simple. I grabbed our letter flash cards and my daughter had to match the letters, say the letter, say the sound, and trace each letter.
A few other ideas:
-make words
-practice names
-match lower case with upper case
-put the alphabet in order
-find objects that start with that letter
-I bet you can come up with other ideas too...Please make sure you come back and share your ideas. :)
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Other ideas:
-memory game (find upper and lowercase letter pairs)
- rhyming words (spell out a short word, like log, and then replace the l with other letters to make other words (like bog, dog, frog, etc.)
- say words and have her pick out the first and last sounds she hears (for example, the first sound of pencil is p and the last sound is l)
- Read a book with her and look for specific letters in the book, reminding her of what sound they make
These are all things that the kindergarteners that I work with practice a lot.
Rose, Have fun with your jar lids! :)