Aidenzilla or An Alphabet Learning Activity

I am always trying to find, or come up with learning activities to do with Aiden.  He is a very active boy, and learns much faster when he is physically doing something.  

I wanted to come up with some learning activities that included dinosaurs, our theme this week.  I made Aiden a pair of dinosaur shoes out of foam sheets. 

To do this, I cut four pieces of foam in the shape of a dinosaur footprint, cut circles big enough for Aiden to slip his foot in, and used a black sharpie to color the toenails.  To put the pieces together I hot glued around the edges.  

Aiden absolutely LOVED the dinosaur shoes!

Here he is looking fierce, like a dinosaur should!

Now on to the activity.  I set up some of his wooden blocks in towers, and put a sticky note, with a letter of the alphabet, on each tower.   As I called out a letter, Aiden would find it and knock over the blocks.

 

Aiden played this game for over 20 minutes,

and would have continued to play, but mommy really needed to help Emily with some schoolwork.

-Cindy