L is for Lion

"ROAR!" is what Ava loves to say! She is a little lion some days, and she loves to take her lion toy practically everywhere with her. This is was inspired the second letter craft for our "Learning My Lovely Letter" alphabet scrapbook. (Click here to see the first letter we made for our collection). Another reason for wanting to make the letter "L" next is because it's one of the sounds we're currently working on during "therapy". As Ava's mommy (and her very own speech therapist) we like to incorporate sounds Ava is learning to say correctly during a fun activity, like crafting. And just so you know, she's currently saying "L" in the initial position almost 100% of the time! Yay! (We're still working on the medial position - like in the word "yellow", but she'll get it soon enough).

While the idea and template for this craft comes from here, you'll notice that we made several little changes of our own, including the addition of a lion cub for our lower case letter. 

Needed to make this craft:

crayons

card stock

scissors

paper

What to do: 

1.) Print out and color two copies of the template.

2.) Cut out.

*Optional but highly recommended... 3.) Play with little sister while mommy cuts out the remaining pieces.

4.) Glue all the pieces together (as shown).

So adorable, don't ya think?!

We're already thinking of ideas for our next letter, so stay tuned!

Linked: Crafty Moms Share, Crayon Freckles, Confessions of a Stay At Home Mommy, The Idea Room Community
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Turkey Handprint Craft & the Letter Tt

Ava and I had such a fun time working on this turkey handprint craft. The template can be found here, but I came up with the idea to make two turkeys to incorporate with the letter Tt. I've decided to start an alphabet scrapbook for Ava (well, I haven't actually made it yet, but I plan to very soon!) that we plan to title "Learning My Lovely Letters". (We're obviously creating the letters in no particular order). She is very familiar visually recognizing more than half of her letters already; however, the ones she does know are all upper case. Now that I'm starting an alphabet scrapbook for her, we'll be able to include lower case letters too. We can also talk about what sound the letter makes and associate the letter with a word... in this case, Turkey starts with the letter T. We made two turkeys, one with mommy's handprints that corresponds with the upper case "T", and the other one with Ava's handprints that corresponds with the lower case "t".

Here are the materials we needed to make this craft complete:

- paper
- pencil
- crayons
- glue
- scissors

Instructions:

- Print out the turkey template
- Color the template and cut out
- Trace your child's hands and your own
- Color the handprints and cut out
- Glue the turkey together (as shown in our picture below)
- Print out the T and t template (here), color, and cut out

Ava did a beautiful job coloring her turkey and hand prints... mommy just helped a little ;) (Mommy, however, did all of the cutting herself, but Ava did a great job watching!).

Aren't they so cute?! We can't wait to create more crafty letters for the scrapbook!

Linked: Happily Mother After, One Artsy Mama, Crafty Moms Share, Fun to Craft, Crayon Freckles