Uppercase and Lowercase Alphabets

These are simple activities to introduce your children about uppercase and lowercase alphabets. Jenn learned about uppercase and lowercase from the first time she learned about alphabets. I have an abc chart which contains uppercase and lowercase, I found it was very helpful, you can get it at the nearest bookshop.

We need paper, marker and magnetic alphabets for this activity. Draw circles and write down uppercase alphabets on a piece of paper. Make sure it's not too small for the magnetic alphabets.

First activity is to match the uppercase alphabets on the paper with the lowercase magnetic alphabets (it can be found in almost every online toy shop).

The second activity requires alphabet stickers, paper, marker and ruler. Draw boxes on the paper and write down a lowercase alphabets on it.

This activity require the children to match the lowercase and uppercase alphabets by sticking on the stickers. 

Jenn's Splendid Ice Cream

Start introducing ice cream to Jenn couple of months ago, and she loves it! Well, who wouldn't love ice cream?

This is another simple counting activity and let's make it more fun!

What you need:

• Origami paper
• Cardboard
• Glue
• Scissor
• Colorful sticker

Firstly, cut out ice cream shape for them, or let them practice the cutting skill. I used colorful origami paper to present different flavors of ice cream.

Let's start the sticking time, starting with the cone and followed with  scoop ice creams, they can have a single scoop, double scoop or even more, it's up to them!

Then I used colorful stickers as the smarties, let them stick as much as they want too, and remember to practice counting!

It's suitable for a birthday card, birthday invitation and also to congratulate newborns =)

Sorting Shapes

Jenn learned about shapes and she knows them quite well, you may wanna check out the activity about Introductions to shapes over here. It's time for sorting shapes!

What you need:

• Origami paper
• Glue
• Marker
• Paper

Prepare the activity by cutting some shapes on the origami paper, we had circle, triangle, square and rectangle. Then draw the shapes as the header on a piece of paper. This activity simple require them to sort the shapes and stick on the origami paper under each group.

The result is quite messy, maybe we should use different paper for different shape. Have fun! =)

Learning Alphabet "D"

It's been a while since she mess around with pencil color, crayon and paint, so here is a simple activity for letter D.

Print out a big and small letter of D with a picture of duck and dog. Let them use whatever they want to color it with.

My little Picasso is doing her thing, busy picking colors.

Jenn used crayon, pencil color and paint for this activity. This is the final of her coloring activity. 

Counting Tree

Jenn is learning to count, she still can't count properly. Sometimes she start counting from two, and sometimes she just say one to ten without really counting the things i asked. So this time, let's make counting more fun!

What I used:

• Scissor
• Glue
• Origami paper
• Old calendar (I love to upcycle stuff at home!) - Cut it into tree shape and tree trunks, cover up with origami papers.
• Colorful stickers - Write numbers on each color as the task to stick as many stickers as written on it.

Happy sticking, happy counting and have a great day! 

Under the sea

Jenn knows almost all animals, now it's time to tell her about the habitats. I'm gonna start with the sea life since we have crabs, sharks, whales, dolphins, lobsters and seaweeds.

I added a couple drops of food coloring to the water, we are running out of blue, so I used green instead. Jenn take out the animals, tell me what they are before she put them into the water one by one. I put on plastic slabber on Jenn to avoid any splash on her clothes.

Look at how much fun she had! 

DIY Birthday Cake Theme Card

Cousin's birthday is coming, so it's time for Jenn to make another DIY craft. We've prepared a gift for him, wrapped it nicely, but we need a birthday card! 
Instead of buying an ordinary card, making a birthday cake theme card popped out of my mind.

Here are what you need:
Origami paper
Marker
Glue
Scissor
Cardboard
Colorful stickers

We created a lot trash in our daily life: milk box, cereal box, cardboard flyers or invitations. Instead of trashing it, we can upcycle those into useful stuff, and it prevents the earth from getting any worse.

This time we used an old cardboard invitation as the main material. Draw a cake on the cardboard, cover the surface with origami paper. Don't forget to make the candles on the top of the cake, and cut out the shape.

I let my girl to stick the colorful sticker, asked her about the colors and also asked her to count them. It's a simple activity but also lots to learn about.