Clothespin Name Recognition Activity

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If you're working with preschoolers, you know name recognition is one of the activities you're bound to run into. We started working on it back in December with our "Making the Good List" activity. I've been kind of slack about it after that, but I decided to get back on track with this fun new project!

Supplies:

• Paint stir stick
• Alphabet stickers
• Clothespins
• Paint
• Picture of your little munchkin

I chose to paint our stick blue because it's Cannon's favorite color. Once the paint was dry, I placed the alphabet stickers down the bottom and glued a closely cropped picture of his head at the top. At first I thought the floating head might look a little bit creepy, but he was SUPER excited about it!

For the clothespins I first put the stickers on cardstock and then glued them to the clothespin (backing them with cardstock first makes them sturdier). Everything dried pretty quickly and we began our letter-matching activity! 

We ran into a bit of confusion at first when Cannon started color matching the stickers versus matching the letters. But it gave us a good chance to talk about looking at the letter on the sticker, and ignoring the colors. 

Opening and closing the clothespins was a great fine motor task! He really took care to match the letters to their exact place on the paint stick.

I can't wait to make one of these for each member in our family. I think we'll be seeing a lot of these paint sticks in the next few weeks!

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