The kids and I spent the entire afternoon outdoors. They were in exceptionally energetic and jubilant moods today, and so we had a LOT of fun. When dinnertime drew nearer and the sun started to mellow, I came up with a quick, fun, impromptu game for sharpening alphabet letter recognition skills.
I simply drew large letters all over our driveway with sidewalk chalk (each was about 1 foot high, enough to allow room for four little feet on top). I yelled out, “1, 2, 3, A!” and so on for various letters. The kids had to run around madly searching for the letter I asked for. They grinned from ear to ear and jumped in place when they reached the right spots.
As a wrap-up, the kids randomly jumped onto letters and yelled out (loudly!) the name of the letter they were on. This got out some energy and satisfied their urge to use their “outside voices” to the fullest before we went inside to eat.
Can’t get much easier (and cheaper) than a piece of sidewalk chalk!
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jodi (3 years ago)
that’s a great idea – I need to try that with Walker…thanks!
Megan (1 year ago)
Great idea – will definitely try this with my little guy! Thanks.