One of Miss Three’s precious treasures is her “letter box“.
Not for sending and receiving post, this one is for collecting letters of the alphabet.
Whenever I’ve finished a box of cereal, biscuits, washing powder, etc. I cut out the large letters in the logo. Then we chop them up so there’s one letter on each piece of cardboard. She lovingly collects them and stores them in the letter box – an empty baby wipes container.
At the moment, Miss Three just enjoys adding to her collection (she doesn’t believe in ‘less is more’) and is sometimes delighted to find letters that match. As she grows, I plan to help her group some letters, and show her how some letters can be the same, but they look different due to the font. We will also match upper and lower case letters, and eventually make words out of them.
Maybe it’s the beginning of a career in ransom notes?
Have fun!
Emily
what a fabulous idea for preschoolers – I am going to start this for my 5 yr twins. They love cutting out too.
Great! It made the most of that ‘snipping’ phase where no piece of paper or cardboard is small enough to a three-year old’s eyes!
What a great way to practice spelling as well.
What a great idea!!!
Great idea – good to know that these treasures will be useful for a while to to come!
Hi Irina – thanks for stopping by!
If you have the same word twice (on one pack or on different packs), you could leave one whole and cut up the other one. See if she can rearrange the letters to match the whole one, like a jigsaw.
Ooh – great idea! This turns it into a matching activity for those who can’t really ‘spell’ yet. And (like most houses) I end up buying the same products over and over again, so there’s lots of opportunities to do this!
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We just started this! Brilliant idea. Didn’t say anything to the kids, just forgot to clear them up in my multi tasking mood. Kids were off clearing up the toys and found them making words and none of the toys cleared up. Couldn’t be mad. We’re keeping ours in a recycled glass jar. The letters aren’t staying in the jar long.
Thanks i was hoping to use it for spelling fun. Kids have other ideas and that’s great!
I’m so glad you guys enjoyed this Melitsa! Isn’t it funny that with the best of intentions we set up activities, and then the kids end up playing with the activities in better ways than we had planned! And the toys are never quite cleared up here either – welcome to the club!!
Emily
What a great idea! I may try with numbers as my 8 year-old is learning her times tables! Thanks for sharing!!
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Awesome idea!! You could also turn them into fridge magnets by putting some of that magnet sticker on the back before you cut the letters.
Yep! Ransom notes on the fridge!
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Great idea!!! We had fun making our letter box
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