Making the Letters

In an effort to reduce boredom and be somewhat educational, I cut out a bunch of lines and curves so that the girls could put them together to make letters. Brooke was all over this activity. She immediately made lots of letters and then moved on to her name, then mine. Audrey decided that the strips looked like good nest making materials and made a nest for some of her guys. (And while that is super creative, she is actually the one who could use a little practice on her letters…in a fun, non-threatening way of course!) By the time that Brooke started on Audrey’s name, Audrey decided that she would participate. So Audrey did the U - Y in her name.

The next day, without any prompting at all, the girls (led by Brooke) decided to do the whole alphabet. They did a great job. I only had to help on a few of the tricky letters – like J, and S, and G. You can’t see it, but we ran out of some of the straight lines and the girls cut some out for me by following some lines I drew. It was their first cutting that actually resulted in a pretty straight line. Though Audrey only humored me and cut two lines the way I instructed and then went back to her preferred method (which totally does not work well at all!!)