Ready to continue the alphabet using vehicles?
Before we started, I found these great life boat coloring sheets and printed out 2 copies. (My kindergartner was home for Thanksgiving break and wanted to have some fun learning, too!)
I turned our blank coloring sheets into color by number sheets. To give the kindergartner a little practice with her sight words, I wrote out the colors; for the preschooler I used each color next to the appropriate number to make a color-key.
Once they finished coloring, we went on to do a little addition.
I had found some simple lifeboat and limousine images online and printed out a page of each of them. Then I cut them out to use for several of our letter “L” activities.
After we had erased the boards and done several sets of addition problems, I let them come up with their own problems. I love that they challenged themselves! Gone were the simple problems and they chose to add double digits. So fun!
I had some circular fruit cereal that I called “life floats” and had them thread their life floats onto pipe cleaners, giving them a little fine motor practice along the way. (Did you notice that we used a lifeboat to put them in instead of a bowl?)
I actually reused the same packing paper that we had turned into our Runway Jet Game. My preschooler and kindergartner took turns rolling the game die and moving their paper limousines up the board, one orange line at a time until they got to the finish line.
By then they were ready for our final activity.
I had drawn out a large “L” for the preschooler to cut out; my kindergartner drew her own letter to cut. Once they had them cut out, they used the paper lifeboats and limousines to create a letter collage using the vehicles that start with “L.”
Next up?? Why “M” for Monster Trucks and Motorcycles, of course! (And my preschooler can’t wait!)