If you know my Mini a little, you will definitely know about his obsession for ABCs! He is truly madly deeply in love with the letters of the Alphabet that anything to do with letters, he is happy! Reading the wordings on our Tees, subtitles on TV, pages of books... well anything at all! :)
To encourage this interest of his, I set up lots of activities around letters for him. We have done letter recognition activities, letter cases matching activities and more recently have begun doing letter sound activities as well.
This post is about a super fun little game that I made up for him, of course to do with letter and his favourite vehicle - the dump truck! The idea just popped up in my head and I couldn't wait to try it out.
It is based around upper and lower case letters identification and matching. Mini knows his upper and lower case letters so this activity helped to reinforce that knowledge in a super fun way.
He had to 'drive' his little dump truck, loaded with a capital letter at a time, through a maze that has lower case on either sides in random order. He had to find the matching lower case letter for the upper case letter that he is carrying in his dump truck and 'dump' the upper case letter at the correct dump spot! :D
It was a super hit. Please go and try it if your tiny is a vehicle lover like mine! :)
How I Set it Up:
- I took a long sheet of paper and taped it to the floor.
- Drew a maze like track on it and randomly wrote a-z in lower case on either sides of the maze track.
- Plated our wooden upper case letter (A-Z) at the start of the maze, along with a teeny tiny dump truck that actually has the dumping functionality!
- Explained to the little one what needs to be done and then let him just roll with it and have loads of fun dumping ABCs! :D
He loved it so much, that the afternoon sun rays beaming across our balcony did not deter him from playing this game over and over and over! :)
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