Alphabet soup. They also sell just the alphabet pasta by itself you can add to your own soups.
Newman's Organics and probably other brands make an Alphabet cookie that we enjoy, not too fatty either.
Leapster makes these First Leapster games which have books you attach and can flip through, if you think he can handle pointing at things on a page with the attached pen (sounds like he can), it responds to the user and has 2-3 activities for each page (eg: reading, music, shapes for one page) We found ours used on ebay.
Dd-almost-3 enjoys this, but has recently moved over to the leapster which has a little computer screen for interactive counting, shape id', letter id, etc.
Also, she has been enjoying starfall.com, which others here have pointed out. Very simple stories focusing on a particular sound, like BOB books.
And we went to Sesame Street's website recently, she enjoyed the keyboard-o-rama with elmo...the child hits a letter or number and gets letter names, sounds, words that start with the letter...special character keys tickle elmo.
Painting with water on concrete in the sun, lasts for a few minutes and then you start over - perfect for letters and counting! Doesn't rely on very very fine motor coord.
Has someone already said building blocks with letters and pictures?
Ds enjoyed being read to a ton; many trips to the library were and still are our norm. Repetition at that age is part of the picture, I think it has to do with the passion for learning.
We have an extremely well-worn Rosemary Wells Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes book, there are two available from her and they are JUST wonderful. We all have it memorized.
Have fun!
Last edited by chris1234; 04/08/09 03:42 AM.
