Fabulous fun with Ff

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 6:23

A few weeks ago, and by that I'm thinking this was the second week of February, we studied the letter F. I had been trying to do some different things with the letter F, because honestly, I think that Cash was getting tired of the same activities for each letter. I know that I was! We still did some of the same ones that I pull from the Letter of the Week curriculum, but I added in some more, too, from other sites that I keep an eye on.

I found these printouts online for each letter. I printed out the big letter for Cash and the little letter for Baylen. We colored them first, because Cash insisted, and then we glued on some things that started with the letter F.

We glued on pretzel goldfish and feathers. The feathers were fun for the boys to play with, blow across the table, and then later, all over the kitchen. It wasn't such a great time for me trying to keep them contained to one area. :)

Here's Cash's finished product. Fish and feathers!

And here's B's finished product. Awesome coloring job!

We also played all week long with different flashlights. This one was Cash's favorite - Heath's headlamp. We even built a fort one night and turned the lights off and played inside in the dark with just our flashlights on. Cool! Forts and flashlights!

Instead of graphing with our Do-A-Dot markers, we used pretzel goldfish to practice our counting. B is wearing Heath's headlamp around his neck in this picture.

Cash would count the fish and then lay out that many pretzel fish below. He did a great job, but this is one of those activities that I need to take to the next level. He's a champ at counting to ten, and most of the time he does great at counting to twenty, but he still needs practice on perfecting 15-20.

Baylen picked up all the pretzel fish later and put them back in the bag. :) Even the ones that were on the floor. Great!

One night we had hamburgers with homemade fries! The boys helped to dry them off before we fried them.

And, of course, they helped to eat them! Yum!

We also read The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Afterwards, we made our own rainbow fish with paper plates, tissue paper, sequins and some mod podge. 

Cash loved the "painting on glue" part.

Baylen decided he didn't want sequins on his after he had already glued his sequins on.

Thus, he got upset. :(

We also colored an underwater scene and glued the big F fish on one side and the little f fish on the other.

Yay for the letter F! It was a fabulously fun week!