Toddler Activities for the Letter Q

Quotable Quizzes
One of my favorite things about being a mother is recording all of the funny things my kids say. As we studied the letter Q this week, I wrote up these "quizzes" for my kids with simple questions such as "What is your favorite color?" and "If you could be an animal, what would you be?" It was really entertaining to hear their answers.

We first discussed what a question is and how questions are followed by a question mark. On the front of the quiz sheet, I drew a large picture of a question mark and asked them to trace and decorate it.

We even used Q tips to paint our question marks!

Here's my two year old giving me the stink eye for some reason.
Love these little girls.

Toddler Activities for the Letter Q

Last week we studied the letter Q. Here's one of the activities we did in celebration of this queenly little letter.

Queenly Q's
We drew, decorated, and cut out fancy Q's to wear.

Materials:
card stock
scissors
large popsicle sticks
markers
stickers, glitter, etc.

Step One:
Draw your Q's and a crown to accompany each one.


Step Two:
Decorate to your heart's content. (The only stickers we had on hand were math stickers).


Step Three:
Cut out your Q.


Step Four:
While my kids decorated their crown, I taped on the popsicle sticks.


Step Five:
Tape on your crown and have your kiddo peek through!

*A more heavily decorated crown proved to be heavier than I thought. I had to reinforce the Q with more popsicle sticks. That's why I recommend using card stock.

Toddler and Preschooler Activities: Queen or King for a Day

We recently visited my mom's house and she pulled out this book, The Usborne Big Book of Fairy Things to Make and Do, which provided great entertainment for my girls. We opened up to the activity on making crowns so the girls could be Queens for a day. So for you mothers of boys, you could make more "masculine" crowns and they could be Kings for a day.

They could practice speaking politely, like royalty does, and use their magic words. They could help make important decisions that day such as what snacks and meals to eat, what clothes to wear, and what activities to do (within reason!). You could play "Follow the Leader" with them or "Simon Says," replacing their name for Simon.

It's fun to make them feel special on just an ordinary day.

Here's the book.

And the crowns...

Measure a strip a paper around your toddler's head and cut two lines halfway through the ends of the strip so they fit together.



Decorate the band to your liking with stickers or markers.

We rolled strips of foil to give our crowns a decorative flare.

And there you have it; Queen or King for a day.
(Maybe we should make these for ourselves whenever we feel the need for
a random "Mother's Day.")