Felt Alphabet

More felt board stuff yesterday. Felt suddenly guilty that I'd 

not done more conscious formal educating of the kids. 

I mean, I think my kids are educated: they know where 

all the fabric stores are, they manipulate cookie cutters 

without injury, they can name all the smurfs, they 

recognize Enid Blyton books as superior reading material 

and they can sing the theme songs of influential programs 

like Maisy, Sesame Street (jazz - check!) and 

Richard Scarry's Busy People.

But perhaps they should also know their ABCs, I thought. 

Emily recently cut her name out of paper, so at least we 

know she is familiar with 5 of the 26 letters anyway.  

But she inspired me to do some letter-cutting myself. 

It was good to finally finish this project, which has been 

on my to-do list for a number of months. What's shocking 

is that I actually have 26 different colors of felt. I like toys, 

and I like education, but sometimes I am not crazy about 

toys that try too hard to educate. Incidental learning is 

valuable, too, so for this alphabet set, I cut the upper- 

and lower-case of each letter out of the same color. 

This is what Jenna spelt when she first played with it - 

her first palindrome!

What amused me even more, though, was that 

our brown microfiber sofa turned out to be 

a rather good felt board too!