I mentioned a little while ago how I wanted to share some of my older posts with you again and how I hoped you wouldn’t mind, and how they were really cool activities but the writing was perhaps a little off, and how sometimes I rambled (okay that clearly has not gotten any better).

Well anyways, I have one of those posts I would love to share with you today. This one is all about a playful way to practice the ABC’s … or abc’s … or really any skill at all come to think of it. And all you need is a little painters tape and a paper airplane of two. Can’t beat that!

Here’s the post from awhile ago friends, I hope you like it!

We had some friends join us earlier this week for a day – and it was lovely.  These two little monkeys are such sweethearts, and are almost exactly the same age as my littlest two.  We had such a fun (and busy) day!  One activity that turned out to be a huge hit was this paper airplane letter recognition activity for preschoolers game.

We have been playing with letter recognition activities quite a bit lately.  Sam has started to take an interest in print when we are out and about, and loves pointing out letters he knows.  This particular letter recognition activity happened rather on it’s own!

I decided to put some painters tape letters on the floor – we love putting painters tape on the floor for so many things: roads, number learning, even mazes!  I like having letters out and about in new and interesting ways – I find it sparks new ways to play and learn with them.  And that was just what happened here …

Through a series of events — Madeline learning about flight, the kids wanting to know what flight was, Madeline explaining through a paper airplane —- paper airplanes were created. Then, of course, the throwing of paper airplanes occurred.  Since we had alphabet letters on the floor already, the kids started aiming at them, trying to hit different letters.

Sammy’s friend decided she would like to print the letters she hit onto her airplane to decorate it.  Cute – and fantastic!  Sammy decided he would also like to practice printing … wonderful – the positive power of peer influence at work!

The kids had a great time with this letter recognition activity.  They would take turns throwing their planes, identifying the letter they hit, and try to write it down on their paper airplane.  So much learning with this game!

After a little while, they stopped printing the letters and then soon after that they started aiming their paper airplanes at other things all together.  I love that this game happened so naturally for these little ones – how they feel learning and playing are one and the same.

I am so passionate about helping little ones get ready to read that I wrote an entire book on the topic! These 7 steps will get your little ones ready to ROCK at reading:

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