Learning is fun: Letter G

Letter G week presented a little bit of a challenge. The letter game that we play tells Abby that the letter G makes a hard G sound, as in gap and golf, while the J makes the soft G sound, as in jump and gym. She's doing a great job sounding out words and their beginning letters right now, so I wanted to reinforce what she already knows about the G (the hard G sound) instead of confusing her with a G word that starts with a J sound. (Still with me?)

I thought about making a letter G gorilla, but couldn't visualize that as being very attractive when it was finished. Finally, we came up with something near and dear to her dad's heart, and Abby got to make a letter G guitar. And a hot pink one at that.

I let her color with markers for the first time, and she was amazed at the fact that she could stain her own skin with them (way cooler than crayons, apparently). Her favorite step in the process had to be dipping the pink yarn in a bowl of glue--which she informed me made "strings all gluey! Abby all gluey!"--and laying them out to make straight lines for the guitar strings. We opted out of the glitter option this time, and instead I let her sprinkle tiny star-shaped sparkles all over her craft when we were finished.

When we were done, we rocked out to some Shakira, which may or may not have actually featured any guitar parts. The important thing to remember is that a morning of crafting followed by a dance marathon always makes for a great afternoon nap.