Letter Puzzles

Materials

• Construction paper
• Child's blunt-tip safety scissors
• Glue

Instructions

1. From the paper, cut rectangles 1/2 inch by 4 inches, rectangles 1/2 inch by 2 inches, circles with 4-inch diameters, and circles with 2-inch diameters.
2. Cut some circles in half.
3. Show your child how to arrange the shapes on paper to form letters.
4. Help him trim some of the shapes (for example, to form the curved ascender in the letter f, or the curved descender in the letter j).
5. Glue the shapes into place to form letters and words.