{"id":4484,"date":"2012-04-19T10:14:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T09:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2024-03-26T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:27:06","slug":"fun-with-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/fun-with-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with F"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been teaching my 4 year old the alphabet before he starts school<\/a> in September (we find out which school he’s been allocated tomorrow!!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F was definitely for FUN, and we certainly had fun whilst discovering about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"flower\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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I started with my youngest simply glueing some flower shapes to a piece of paper. I have a box (an old plastic tub – either butter ice-cream, chocolates etc) filled with paper flower shapes – they come in useful so many times a year (Mothers’ Day, Spring, Easter, Get Well, etc, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my 4 year old I cut out a letter F and made some leaves out of green paper and glued it together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find many ideas like this over on Pinterest.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Follow<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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Next we thought about things that began with the letter F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My 4 year old told me that FROG started with F, that he had learnt it at playgroup and told me all about how a Frog developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then told me that Farm started with F – and we had been to one last week.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"animals\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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On the walk to playgroup we saw what else we could spot. We had a snack when we got back home and that also triggered some F words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many can you spot?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"lookingforf\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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Then the real FUN began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because F is for FEET and FINGERS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and that could only mean one thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PAINT<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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\"fingerprints\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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He is currently really interested in mixing colours and seeing what happens. We had just used red and yellow and he mixed them up until he made brown.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"paintf\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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As you can see even I joined in! It had started raining so we did it in the kitchen. Careful as we discovered that paint it VERY slippy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We put the paint in old food containers that we had washed up. Recycled newspaper protected the floor. And a large rock was used as a paper weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We used our footprints to make a F for Fox.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"foxbuild\"<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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