Have you noticed how magnets seem to attract kids like, well, magnets? Capitalize on that fixation with a magnetic memo board right in your child's room.
| Prep Time: Under 1 hour | |
| What you need: | |
| Metal baking sheet with a hole in one of the handles
Magnetic letters (or, make your own toddler-friendly ones, see Step 4) Adhesive-backed paper (or regular paper and nontoxic tacky glue) Extra-thick craft foam Scissors | |
| Seasons: Year round | |
| Materials: paper | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. | Purchase an inexpensive metal baking sheet with a hole in one of the handles, then hang it at tot eye level with an adhesive or screw-in hook. |
| 2. | Add a set of magnetic letters and write away. You might compose a daily note -- "It is sunny"-- to read to your child in the morning. When she writes back, you'll surely figure out that "Snolum" means "Let's go to the park!" |
| 3. | Since many store-bought magnets are for kids over the age of three, we came up with this toddler-friendly version. Download our two-page template (see Step 4) and print it onto adhesive-backed paper. |
| 4. | Alphabet templates to download:
Alphabet Template Part 1 Alphabet Template Part 2 (To view the .pdf file, you'll need Adobe Reader. which is available for free from the Adobe site.) |
| 5. |  Stick each sheet onto extra-thick craft foam. (Or print the
alphabet on regular paper and attach it to the foam with nontoxic
tacky glue.) With the foam facing up, use scissors to cut apart
the letters, then cut apart a sheet of adhesive-backed magnets
and affix 1 to the back of each letter. (You may want to make
doubles of common consonants and vowels.) |
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