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Hi, everyone! I am Chrissy from The Taylor House, I am so excited to be here at Crystal & Comp to share some fun Letter snack ideas with you. This is our third week of our Letter of the Week Snack ideas for preschoolers and I hope that you have loved the fun snack ideas that we have come up with and continue to check back each week to find a new and inspiring snack.

Letter of the weeksnacks are a great way to start introducing letters to your kids at a young age by sharing the alphabet with them in a fun and unique way. What child wouldn’t love having snacks like these?

Another great idea is to use these snack ideas in your kids classrooms. Are they responsible for taking a group snack occasionally? Have them coordinate there snack with the letter they are learning that week. I think a teacher would love this idea.

Today I am sharing a snack with the letter C and have created a fun little car. Here are the instructions on how to make one yourself.

How to Make the Letter of the Week Car Snack

Materials you will need:

Apples
Grapes
Toothpicks

Letter of the week step by step tutorial

Step 1 – Cut your apple into wedges

Step 2 – Cut your Grapes in half to make the wheels

Step 3 – Stick a toothpick through the apple to use to attach your grapes on the car.

That’s it! You have a fun little Car looking snack for your kids to enjoy! Such an easy idea and my boys loved them!

OTHER IDEAS FOR LETTER OF THE WEEK Butterfly KIDS SNACK

Use different fruits for the car body like oranges, pears, etc.
Try other options for the wheels like cookies or green grapes
Add a raisin on the front with peanut butter for the steering wheel

You can also find Letter of the Week Crafts here at Crystal & Comp to coordinate with your Letter of the Week Snacks.

Letter of the Week Crafts:

Letter of the Week Snacks

A is for Airplane
B is for Butterfly

Do you have any plastic Easter eggs hanging around? Have no idea what to do with them?

Are you in need of some activities to entertain the little ones this summer? Maybe even something a little educational?

Well, I have a tutorial that is a bit crafty and a lot educational! Make sure you check out all of my activities for kids while you’re here.

Back around Easter I ran across a blog where the author shared a cool way to re-purpose plastic Easter eggs into an alphabet matching game. I did not bookmark it and I’ve tried Googling to find her site. I can not find the blog to save my life. So, if that was your blog, consider this my shout-out to you. 🙂

You’ll Need

26 plastic eggs
uppercase and lowercase alphabet stickers (or a marker to write letters on the eggs)
ziplock bag for storage

Gather your plastic eggs and stickers. I used larger eggs for vowels and smaller eggs for consonants.

Brilliant, I know.

This is a great activity to pull the kids in for. My five year old twins helped attach the stickers to the eggs.

We put the uppercase letter on the top part of the egg.

And then we put the lowercase letter on the bottom part of the egg.

See, the egg now matches when put together.

Only problem with my eggs would be that, according to my analytical little Nicky, the eggs really do not match because the big A and little a are different colors.

If you have very detailed children, it might be best to purchase stickers that are all the same color.

Just saying.

Now it is time for the game.

Take all the eggs and separate the tops from the bottom and throw them all in the same bowl and mix them up.

Your little ones will have hours of fun matching uppercase and lowercase letters to make the eggs whole again.

When you’re all done, store the eggs in a ziplock bag until you’re ready for more egg cracking fun!

How easy was that?

Letter of the Week Snack: C is for Car

How to Make the Letter of the Week Car Snack

OTHER IDEAS FOR LETTER OF THE WEEK Butterfly KIDS SNACK

Letter of the Week Crafts:

Alphabet Matching Game

You’ll Need