We’ve been working on organizing our arts and craft supplies.
I planned on making a writing caddy for our daughter, but we instead found this blue wire caddy at Joann’s on clearance and the little miss insisted we bring it home. Luckily it’s my style too, so I was thrilled to set it up at her play table in the living room. Inside it we keep:
– Letters and Numbers For Me activity book (published by Handwriting Without Tears)
– The complete set of Jan Brett’s free traditional coloring alphabet tracers stapled together with a this free downloadable Handwriting Without Tears Capital Letters Formation Chart
– Lined and blank paper
– Soft pencils and erasers
– Shape and alphabet stencils
– Protractor
– Maria the Scientist Paper Dolls
– Calculator (used primarily as a pretend cell phone)
– A set of butterfly play bank checks that you can download for free!
We keep the writing caddy on the child sized table by the window overlooking our garden. Adjacent to our birding materials (in the baskets/bags on the floor), we’re all set for everyday learning!
Wow love the real traceable letter templates! So much nicer than the ones avail when you were young!! She can really trace around the complete letter to practice! What fun tools!
“Maria the Scientist paper dolls” – with beaker in hand! LOL Golly, in the ’60s my career females were nurses and stewardesses.
The little one manages to draw such readable letters! I can’t wait for her to get more facile and ready to have fun doing graffiti and calligraphy with me!