I came across this tutorial from a crafting message board and thought it was a cool idea. So I had to make one for the kids especially since the ABC we have are wooden blocks and I almost always incur some amount of curse words when I accidentally step on them. Plus when Ben was going thru his teething stage, he thought some of the blocks were good enough to eat. So I am pretty proud of these, I can throw them in the wash when they get gross. My daycare kid is in the “everything taste yummy” phase so when she saw this, she was very pleased to know the letter “O” taste yummy

I went a step further and made these with knit fabric to avoid the woven fraying..not a big fan of that. Plus I had more knit scraps than I know what to do about. It did put a little dent in the scrap bin which is great since I cant stand the overflowing bin, I will probably be doing small letters and numbers next. Also I associate the letter with what it stands for, like for eg, R is for robot since I found I have a robot fabric. Ava thinks its the coolest thing and of course we were non stop doing the alphabet over and over again today and I am actually pretty pleased she can actually recognize the letters now. Ben is on the right track to be a mad genius but i’ll leave it to that..lol

And some close ups, bigger prints are harder to do but do-able.

smaller prints totally rocked this out!

On the other hand, the kids have also somewhat been advancing in the “toys” stage, I think most of it can be packed away now to be replaced with jigsaw puzzles and little people. In my opinion, Ava is a little behind in speech but she compensate them with her great talent of putting puzzles together, she is putting a 63 piece puzzle here and have put together an 80 piece puzzle before. She also has an amazing memory, so I see her being the nerd, geeky girl in school. She’s the quiet child, the kind that is totally happy if I give her a puzzle to put together. The same cannot be said of her brother who is a menace!

Being a “teacher” here