Apples can be different colors. What are the many colors of apples? Choose different colors for some of the apples drawn here. Taste several different types of apples. Make a chart that shows which color apple is the favorite in your family. Saying the Letter A, The letter A has several different sounds, The A in apple sounds soft, like "aaa." The A in acorn sounds just like the letter name, "A." The A in father is "ah." Have fun saying different "A" and "ah" sounds.Bound to find B. Go on a B hunt. Look for things that begin with the letter B: bananas, bikes, balls, balloons, blocks, boxes. Then use a blue or black crayon to write a list of all the B words you found. [s][b] Balloon Buzz like Bees. Practice B sounds. Buzz like bees. Blow up pretend balloons or blow blown balloons into the air. Break a biscuit by biting it. Make a box of B words and pictures. Have children look through recycled magazines or junk mail to find letters and pictures of B words, Cut out them out with Crayola® Scissors and use Crayola® washable glue to make a B callage,Look for Cs. They are all around you. There are big Cs on every Crayola® product. While in a car ask children to watch for road signs and ads that contain C, Before kids can write Cs, it helps to trace the C shape, practicing where to start and stop this partial circle, [c][e] Castle Say C to hear its many different sounds. Experiment with using familiar words. The C in castle, Crayola®, chord sound like "kuh." The C in princess makes a hissing sound. Sometimes € sounds like its name, as in cedar, but then entirely differently in chest.Play dominoes. Make your own set of dominoes using D words. First, make a list of words that begin with D. Cut out domino-sized pieces from construction paper or thin cardboard. Then either write a D word on each half of the domino piece, or draw a picture, using Crayola® crayons or washable markers. Repeat the words or phrases often enough so there are matches when you play. Nursery rhymes and songs are loaded with BD sounds. Try "Hey-Diddle, Diddle" or "Doe, Ray, Me." Make up playful poems and songs with words that begin with D.Exploring Es is easy, they are everywhere. Explore the newspaper and grocery coupons. Use Crayolag markers to circle all the capital Es and use a different color to circle lower-case e letters. Saying E is not as easy. Sometimes ¢ doesn't even have a sound. Practice different E sounds in words such as: eel, seal, e-mail, ear, echo, electric, Emily, and eye.Feeling and Finding. You can feel f tickle your lips when you say it. Try finding f in books, especially books about musical instruments, Many instruments begin with f including French hom, flugel hom, and flute. Play the note F on a musical instrument so children can’ hear it. Fluffy, feathery Fs. Craft feathers are fluffy and fun. Use them to decorate large cut-out shapes of F and f. Children could make Fine-Feathered Friends by cutting out duck or bird shapes and gluing craft feathers on the friendly fowlGee, Great Glorious &. Gold glitters and glows. Gems are gorgeous. Green can be glossy or gross. Draw a lot of g words and color them with different colors of green. Growl for 6, Kids love to growl like tigers or lions, so here's their chance. Read a favorite story with them, Have them follow along with every word. Whenever they spot'a G, ask them to grow! Then feed the hungry creature g foods, such as green grapes and grainy granola.Hats off ta H. His for hats, headbands, and helmets, all of which go on your head. See how many different versions of head gear your children can find around the house. Make decorative hats from recycled file folders or construction paper. His the sound of laughter. Ha-ha-ha and Hee-hee-hee, how funny could it be? Donkeys* laugh sounds like hee-haw, hee-haw. Go you think the ducks are laughing when they honk? Think of other animal sounds that start with an H sound.T sayi, Lis aletter that is used a lot, especially in the middle of words, where it has several different sounds. Say it, Idaho, marine, and bird. As you read books with children, point out how many times the T and i appear, and soon they'll be looking for them too. I means personal. What better letter to personalize than I? Children could cut out a huge outline of I and fill it with drawings of their favorite items (toys, foods, etc.).TJ Names. Lots of names begin with J. Think of all the people they know whose first names begin with J. Page through the calendar and look for J months. Look in the phonebook at how many pages are filled with last names that begin with J. J is for jumping. Make a homemade jumping jumble game, first do "Jumping Jacks" then jump forward, jump backwards, jump left, jump right, and jump high. Then lay on the ‘loon and make a J with your arms and legs.Favorite K words. Kids are ivated with words that begin with K, such as kangaroo, kitten, ’s, kitchen, and kite, Talk favorite k words, Write each down, naming all the letters, kids can dictate imaginative stories using their favorite K words. Perhaps an adventure about a kangaroo in the kitchen, a (A Write Kin Chalk. Chalk has k in the word, so use it to practice writing. Supply kids with Crayolam Chalk and a chalkboard or dark sheet of construction paper. Go outdoors and write on the sidewalk.Lis for Letters, Everyone loves to get letters, whether on paper or e-mail, Encourage your children to write or draw letters to friends and relatives. Try to use as many L words as possible in the letters, Remember to let your kids lick the stamps and lift the mailbox handle. Lots of Ls. L is such an easy letter to write with just one or two straight lines. Encourage kids to make many capital and lowercase Ls using crayons, markers, ribbon, or yarn.Miles of Ms, Go ona search for the letter M next time you take a ride in the car. Mile markers, motor vehicle signs, mountains, and motels are a few M words you may see. Munching Ms. What M words are edible? Meals with mushrooms, milk, meat, melon and many other foods, Draw many M word foods on a paper plate for a delicious masterpiece.Nis for New. Check out the newspaper for new news and other N words. Now, at noon or at night, it is easy to find N words. Look at a US map and see how many words start with New: New York, New Jersey, New England, Newfoundland, and more. Nubby Ns, Make Ns from Crayola® dough and press small items such as sequins or beads into the capital and lower case n letters, before the dry. Rub your fingers over the letters and feel the nubby textures.Oisa Circle. Form an O with your lips. Make O shapes with your fingers and thumbs. ‘Cut strips of colored paper and glue them together into chains of Os. Drawing Os, Use your favorite colors of crayons and markers and plain paper to make ooddles of doddles of Os. Overlap and oversize some Os. The outcome may be an outrageous design.Pis for Pinwheels. Make your own Party Pinwheels using the directions in Inspiring Ideas, Power your pinwheels with a puff of wind. P Puff. Feel the puff of air your mouth makes when you say the letter p. Proudly puff and practice P words,Questioning the Difference. Sometimes young children get confused about which way e lower case letters b, d, p, and q are made, since they are all basically a circle and a line. These are good letters for children to make with Crayala® Dough, or Model Magic® When kids feel the differences, they are more likely to remember them. Quack about Q. Q words are fun to write and say. Young children enjoy quacking like ducks and older kids enjoy creating alliteration sentences, such as, "The quiet queen could not quit quivering under the quilt."re" sound as you make it move. for Racers. Draw a race car and make Roar$ is for Snow. Enjoy making the S shape in snow, Shape a snow person and then watch \ \ / the sun melt it. NY \ — — Sin the Sond, When there is no snow around, make the 5 shape in sand. In a sandbox or beach or draw a beach scene with crayons and draw s shapes on the sand in the picture.T stands Tall. Have kids stretch and make a tall T with their torso. Stand straight and tall. Stick arms out and be a tall t. Trains, T-ball and Other Tough Stuff to Make. Kids can make their own games to play. Make trains by decorating small boxes and make a homemade track with masking tape. Make a T-ball to kick. First, draw a large T near the bottom half of a large paper grocery bag with Crayola® Washable Markers. Decorate the bag. Stuff it with wadded newspaper. Staple the top shut. The T-ball is ready to kick.