Learning is fun: Letter D

I will never play with feathers again.

Okay...maybe that's an exagerration. If ever I find myself in dire need of a project and the only craft material left in the house is a bag of feathers, I might be tempted to play with feathers again. But that's a big if.

For all the trauma of having to clean glue and feathers off of a two-year-old, creating this Letter D Duck really was a fun project, and Abby was surprisingly meticulus with her placement of the feathers. ("This one right here. That one right here. This yellow feather right here.") I only had to intervene when she started to put feathers in the center of the letter. That offended the part of me that really wanted this to still resemble a letter D when we were done. I left her duck laying on a chair while the glue dried so that Abby could see it. Everytime she walked by I would hear her chanting "duh-duh-duck. duh-duh-D! qwa-qwa-quack. qwa-qwa-Q!" (We've talked about how the Q says "qwa" as in "quack." So my little smarty pants put two and two together when we made the duck.)

She's getting better at trying to sound out first letters of words when we ask her, although she often just defaults to whatever the last letter we talked about happens to be. ("eh-eh-Mommy!" "No Abby, 'Mommy' starts with M. What makes the mmm sound?" "mmm-mmm-M!")

The blog that I shamelessly steal project ideas from is leaving me hanging for next week's letter E activity. I need to find a letter E craft that a two-year-old will understand, and most of the ones on that site are a little obscure for Abby. Anyone know of other great alphabet activity sites?