* Last week was the letter Ff
Some crafts we did were:
The letter f colored on a ditto and then we glued feathers on.

Paper plate made into a frog

Fingerpainted a paper plate and then made into a fan by adding a tongue
depressor.

Made fruit salad.  All children brought in a piece of fruit which we cut up
in a big bowl and ate for snack.

Made an Ff collage of pictures from magazines.  (we cut most of them out then
had children identify each picture they picked out and practice making their
own F's)

Fish shape out of oaktag and then we glued on colored rice for scales.


* Cut a Flower out of white cardboard.A tulip is nice. Use tissue paper
crumbld into little balls. Let them glue. 
Play Leap Frog
Freeze Dance
Discuss different Flags
Talk about Friends and Feelings


* We do "Funny Feet" for Ff Week, the children have fun!  Take off shoes trace
their feet and then create them funny!  Make faces, houses, people, autos, the
list is endless!!   


* SNACK IDEA: Make Fruit salad. Allow the children to practice
cutting skills using blunt table knives to cut bananas, orange 
and pineapple sections.  

FANS
If you are near an import store, you could get several kinds of paper fans to
show the children. Then provide the children with felt markers to decorate
their  paper and then show them how to fold  them into accordion type fans. 

The following F activities comes from a book called Learning Letters Through
All Five Senses
by Lois McCue.

FINGERS, FINGERS (Fingerplay)
Fingers, fingers,
Flit and fly,
Fingers, fingers,
Climb up high,
Fingers, fingers,
Turn and twist,
Fingers, fingers
Make a fist.
Fingers, fingers,
Crawl and creep.
Fingers, fingers,
Fast asleep.

FINGERPRINTS
Offer paper and stamp pads.
Demonstrate how the children can make their
own fingerprints.  Supply magnifying glass for 
closer observation. 

FINGERPAINT
As the children fingerpaint, suggest they
try making the letter F with their finger.

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
Cut out pictures of faces with different
facial expressions (happy, sad or crying,
worried, laughing, etc.)
What letter does face start with?
Place the pictures and a small hand mirror
on a tray for a shelf activity.