Hey, guess what? The sun came out today! Woohoo!
To celebrate, here’s a simple outdoor literacy project:
Letter rocks! We just stamped letters using permanent ink. The smooth stones definitely worked best.
I was inspired by this post from Wise Craft, and also this one and this one from Activity Mom. My kids are rock-obsessed in the first place, which made this activity an instant hit.
So far, my boys have used the rocks to just make any words they could. (The 6 year old helped the 4 year old quite a bit with this.) Then they started to build words off of other words, Scrabble style. Then we tried to build as many words as we could in 2 minutes. The 4 year old loves lining them up in alphabetical order as fast as he can.
Pretty simple! I’m planning to leave them in our rock pile outside to use all summer. I think these would lend themselves to lots of other alphabet games. What do you think?