C is for Castle and Crown

Lately this little girl has been into playing prince and princesses. I thought it would be a great idea to pull that into our learning but I didn't want to wait until we got to letter P.  So I started to think of things that began with letter C that tied into that same theme and I came up with castles and crowns.

The first thing we did was paint a castle using a celery stick because it makes a letter C. 

Here is a link to the coloring page we used.

Just look at that happy face.

Sadly most of the C's are backwards.

 This was a great activity because it helped with recognizing the colors and shapes. It was also a great way to practice coloring and staying in the lines.  Something we really need to work on! 

 I found this page here but you have to scroll down a little ways and then I just saved the image to my computer and then printed it out using word.

Then we drew our own castle complete with a prince and princess.

 Every castle needs a princess! And you can't have a princess without a crown, so that is what we did for our next activity.  Our crown template can be found here.  The best part of this project was using the glitter glue! It was a big hit.

Then we built a castle for all the princess dolls.

We also read a couple of castle books including our favorite "The Paperbag Princess".  It is such a cute book!