Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Magic Writing!

For this activity I painted the bottom of two shallow cardboard boxes -- one for Grace and one for Jack.  Once the paint dried I added just enough cornstarch to cover the paint at bottom of the boxes.  Jack used his box to practice drawing lines and circles (his favorite) as well as to dig and play.  The fun part of this activity was how the colors magically appeared underneath the cornstarch as Jack drew and played!  Jack had a great time drawing with his fingers, hands, sticks, rocks, and this shovel.

 
Grace has really been enjoying writing letters, words, and her name recently.  I knew she would enjoy practicing writing in a whole new way with this activity.  Grace loved writing her name and three letter words in the cornstarch.  Grace was so excited to see bright colors appear as she wrote her letters.  In the picture above Grace is writing the word cat.  I love how this activity encourages writing in a whole new fun way.  It's such a great sensory activity too! 

2 comments:

just another colorful day!!, said...

Fantastic idea, Mommy!
Tell Jack that my favorite shapes are circles, too. Tell Grace that her letters are wonderful! I can see how this multi-colored bottom would make writing so exciting and colorful.
I can't help but wonder why Jack didn't have his "digger truck" in there! Jack Apple is as cute as can be!
We could hardly believe our very eyes when we saw all of Grace's writing on Poppy's birthday card...wow, she's amazing ~ Amazing Grace!

Love to You, Maddy

I love 18 months!, said...

YEAH....Jack!

You are 18 months old - a year and a half all full of Jack in the Box fun!

Your Ever and Ever and Forever Maddy

Got Gracie, Jack & Eve?