Dressel Academy: Make It With Letters: Featuring "H"

Friday, February 12, 2010

Make It With Letters: Featuring "H"

Sassafrass' favorite thing to write with letter H is my name (Holly) and now she provides me with lots of cards and pictures that say my name instead of 'Mommy'. Hmm...I'll have to work on breaking that habit! But for now it is pretty cute!

But for Make It With Letters Day during 'H Week', we made a HOUSE! (I based my ideas on those I found HERE)

We pasted a cut out 'H' onto a blue piece of construction paper. I then cut out some other shapes like a triangle and a circle. Sassafrass identified the shapes and then decided where it would be good to use them in her picture. She also thought a cloud would be a good idea too, so I cut out a fluffy white cloud and she glued it on. (After-the-fact idea: it would be fun to use cotton balls for clouds...then they'd really be fluffy!)

We then talked about what is included on a house, like windows and a door. I served as Sassafrass' illustrator. She told me where windows should go - even describing that the one in the middle should be a circle window and the one on the door should look like 'a pie, except half of it is gone' :)

Her bedroom was in the upstairs and of course there was a 'Welcome' mat outside! She added the flowers herself!