The Great ABC Hunt

A few months ago, someone was playing with Liliana and asked her what color the toy she had was. She went through about 10 colors before the person finally told her. I freaked out a bit. WHY ON EARTH DOESN'T MY TWO YEAR OLD KNOW HER COLORS!?!?!? Then I realized...I never actually taught them to her. Hmmm.... second child maybe?!?! It took just a couple of days of pointing out colors as we played and she had them down flat.

And now we're onto ABCs. Micah knew his ABCs by this point, but Liliana was not interested in sitting and doing learning worksheets or anything and I refuse to try to push something on her because learning should be fun.

So enter the great ABC hunt!

I found a bunch of bulletin board letters at a rummage sale, all for $3!!! I decided to start with A because I thought it would be easy for her to recognize, not because it was at the beginning of the alphabet. I taped the letters up all over the house, half of them were A's and the other half were other letters. I gave her an Easter basket and she went around collecting just the A's. The other letters she gave to Micah.

It was good for her to try to recognize A's in different sizes, colors, and fonts! She did Great!!! She had a lot of fun and now she points out A's all over the place!

If you don't have cut out letters, you could easily do this same game with letters written on post it notes or scrap paper. If you have older kids you could do this with sight words. Like, find all the words that end in -at.