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Letter "Ii" Recognition Craft Projects & Activities We spend one week reinforcing each letter with crafts and activities after it is introduced. "Ii" is for Ice Cream One Scoop or Two? "Ii" is for Ice Cubes Use the glitter construction paper for this or brush your white paper with glitter paint. Other ideas for collaging with letter I, "Ink stamps": use a variety of rubber stamps and ink Insect prints - Invite children to make finger print insects all over their letter I using different colored inks or paint. When dry add legs, wings, eyes, antennae with markers. See our insect page for illustration. Insect Theme Find things in magazines that start with I. Get The letter Ii Template here... First-School Letter Ii page Carl's Corner Letter I - This comes with a sheet to color, cut, and paste to the letter. "Ii" is for Ice Skates We called these our Ice Skate Puppets. I just drew these freehand, cut out and had the kids glue them to a craft stick and lace up with yarn for some indoor ice skating and to reinforce our letter of the week. "Ii" is for Ice Skates. "Ii" is for Igloo Draw a rough outline of an igloo on blue construction paper. Encourage children to cut square shapes out of white construction paper and glue inside the igloo shape. Write "Ii" is for Igloo. Group Time Activity "Ii" is for Ice Cream Party It's always exciting to make homemade ice cream! If you don't have an ice cream maker there are a few other ways you can make ice cream with kids. Here are a few that we have tried and had lot's of fun with. Ice Cream in a Zip Lock Bag About.com Homemade Ice Cream Make different flavors by adding cocoa powder, fresh strawberries, jam, etc. Ice Cream in a Can Use 2 clean metal cans, both with lids, one can must be larger than the second. In the smaller can place 1 cup of very cold milk 1 cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla As above you can make different flavors by adding cocoa powder, fresh strawberries, jam, etc. Seal with the lid on tightly. Place the smaller can in the larger can. Layer crushed ice and salt around the smaller can making sure it is more or less in the center. Seal the larger can with its lid tightly and roll it around for about a half hour. Let children sit on the floor and roll the can back and forth between them. Letter I, Insects, & Ice Cream Sponge Painting Invest in some Alphabet and misc. sponges for crafts like this. They are about $2 or $3 per bag at Walmart. Also available from school supply stores. We use ours to make a page like this for every letter we are learning from September through May. Parents are encouraged to take them home and post them where the child can see and practice every day. When we finish the entire alphabet they can make them into a book or put them into a binder. Submit Crafts & Activities If you would like to share your craft projects, ideas, or child related articles please send them to: admin@cereschildcare.com with your name(optional) so that we can give you proper credit. If you have images to go with your submission, please attach them to the same email. Back to Themes, Crafts, and Activities Email Sheril! Return to Ceres Childcare & Preschool