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The physical sensation of this letter activity gives an added learning punch.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n With your child, find different size and shaped letters in a magazine or catalog, or draw and color big letters on paper. Cut around them freely and place them in a tray or box.\u00c2\u00a0Help your child place a letter on the Styrofoam block. \u00c2\u00a0Hold the point of a golf tee on the letter, and invite her to use the hammer to pound the golf tee through the paper and into the block. She can hammer and pound until the block is covered with letters. \u00c2\u00a0When the letters are placed randomly, your child can play a find-a-word game, looking up, down, and diagonally for small words such as in and to. He can also move the letters around to spell out words.\u00c2\u00a0Encourage your child to color in some of the letters. Ask him to think about the colors he is choosing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the G might be green, and maybe the T is colored yellow and black like a tiger. He will be associating letter sounds with words.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0develops letter-recognition skills <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The physical sensation of this letter activity gives an added learning punch. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0large letters cut from magazines or letters drawn on paper \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0tray or box \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0scissors \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0golf tees \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Styrofoam block (saved from an appliance or electronics box) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0child-size hammer With your child, find different size and shaped letters in a magazine or catalog, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35,38,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-3-years","category-literacy","category-motor-skills","category-preschool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0tray or box
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0scissors
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0golf tees
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0Styrofoam block (saved from an appliance or electronics box)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0child-size hammer<\/span><\/div>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0promotes motor development<\/p>\n