"A is For Alice, Who Ate An Alligator..."

Got me a laminater last week. I had no idea how much fun I would have with it. Every mothers should have one of these...and anyone who is as OCD as I am should definitely own one of these. I'll be laminating FHE lessons, playdough activity sheets, chore charts, flashcards, and pretty much everything we own all week. It's my new favorite toy.

For Christmas, Reese's preschool teachers gave her the book, "One Mitten", by Katherine O'Connel.
I got a little carried away with the mitten theme and made 52 little mittens out of cardstock, and wrote the letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case on them. Here they are waiting to be laminated. Cute, right?
Now the girls can play a "Mitten Match" version of the memory game. I set up a little clothesline in the living room using yarn strung between two chairs, and after Reese gets a match she got to pin the pair up on the clothesline. I think that next time I will only put out 8-10 pairs to choose from, because it took too long for her patience to work through all 26 alphabet pairs and I wonder if she will remember the letters better if she works with less at a time.
I also went ahead and made a few extra "e's", an extra "m", and a "d" so they can use the little mittens to spell out Reese, Quincy, Mom, Dad, and Baby. I think we'll be using these flashcards a lot in the next year. If I remember, I'll add picks of the clothesline when I upload more pictures.