Letter G: Hands On Science

Kids learn by doing! With this simple science experiment, your little on will have fun while exploring color mixing. Use food coloring to tint water. Pour the water into an ice cube tray and freeze. Practice saying "Hypothesis" and explain that hypothesis is a fancy science word meaning a guess. Have the child make a hypothesis or guess about what will happen when yellow and blue are put in the baggie together.

Help the child put a small piece of yellow ice in a plastic zip bag with a small piece of blue ice. Your child will use her hands to warm the ice and help it melt. The yellow and blue ice melt into green. Read White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker about a silly rabbit who jumps into buckets of different colors of paint.

As an Alphabetologist (someone who does fun and silly activities to learn the letters of the alphabet and early phonics) use this project for...
Letter G: mix yellow and blue to make green
Letter P: mix red and blue to make purple
Letter O: mix yellow and red to make orange (the "o" in orange doesn't make the aw sound as in "octopus" but it's okay to use as a fun project)
Letter B: red, blue, and a bit of yellow to make brown.
Letter H: Talk about the science word "hypothesis" and what it means. Mix different colors after making a hypothesis about what the outcome will be.

Letter C: Cotton Ball Art

Do you have some cotton balls and clothespins? I love art projects that don't require a trip to the craft store for supplies. Pinch the clothespin onto the cotton ball to make it easy to handle. Put blobs of one to three different paint colors onto a paper plate and let your little one create.

This activity can be easily used as an alphabet art project for many different letters of the alphabet. Here are some examples...
Alphabet Letter G for green: Use blue, yellow, and green. Mixing the blue and yellow will create green.
Alphabet Letter C for cotton balls and clothespins
Alphabet letter P for purple: Use blue, red, and purple. Mixing blue and red create purple.
Alphabet letter F for fall: Use fall colors red, orange, and yellow for art that looks like fall leaves in the wind.
Any letter of the alphabet: With a marker, write a letter of the alphabet on a white paper. Use the cotton ball to dot paint on the letter.
Alphabet letter R for red (or any color and its letter): Paint with just one color and write the letter the color begins with ten times randomly on the page.
Any other ideas?

Letter S: Strawberry Basket Art:

It's strawberry season here in San Diego county! Re-purpose the little green baskets fruit stand strawberries come in with this stamping art project. Preschoolers can dip the strawberry basket in a shallow tray of white paint and stamp a blue piece of paper to make spider webs. Add a puff ball spider or leave the creation as modern art.