Learning is fun: Letter P

Keeping my craft closet well stocked has its advantages. Having everything I needed on hand to make a letter P craft in the middle of a blizzard is one of them.

Since watercolors were such a huge hit with our letter O, I decided to pull them back out so that Abby could Paint a Pretty letter P. She's improving a lot on staying in the lines and following directions (like just using one color at a time so our watercolors don't all turn brown).

When her letter P was perfectly painted and plastered in place on a piece of paper, I cut rectangles out of some craft foam to make the keys for her piano. She's a pro with shapes now, and usually has very little difficulty figuring out what a particular shape is, but we haven't done much with rectangles, so making piano keys provided a good opportunity for that.

She also insists on confusing black and brown, so I cut out a few brown rectangles as well and we worked on matching colors and distinguishing between the two. I must have really driven the point home, because later when I pointed to something black and asked her what color it was, she replied, "That's not brown, it's black, mommy."

Once all the keys were glued in place, she had tons of fun playing her homemade piano and singing a few of her favorite songs for her dad, who is snowed in with us and got to experience craft time firsthand.