What in the world are U doing?

I am guessing that question was running through the minds of some of our neighbors a few nights ago as they watched the girls and I pass by on a little bike ride ~ at about 9:30 at night. If only they had known we were on an educational excursion. You see, we have been learning about the letter U this week and our little development just happens to be shaped like a U. I couldn't resist taking our tracing activities large scale and it was WAY too hot to do it during the day. The girls thought it was fantastic, though I am not sure it had a profound impact on their educational development.

Perhaps some of these activities were slightly more formative...

Letter U word pasting
I cut out pictures of the letter U, the United States, a unicorn, an umbrella and utensils and put them in little styrofoam cups (which were leftover packing material). Then the girls glued the pictures onto the big letter U. We then wrote "We miss" above the U and sent it to Daddy at camp. :)

Styrofoam Poke Tracing
We flipped over the little styrofoam cups that held the U word pictures and I had drawn a U on the bottom. The girls then used little toothpick umbrellas to poke and trace the letter U. This activity seems to particularly delight Lily because most of her poking endeavors are swiftly squashed.

Pudding Drawing
I whipped up a batch of instant butterscotch pudding and put it in deep and wide containers to help minimize the mess. Evie drew a U a few times and then they both decided to go all hands in. So, we adapted and decided we were now going to make handprints on paper towels. :)

Our U words also popped up throughout our daily activities. We had umbrellas in our sandwiches for lunch and watched Singin' in the Rain to continue our umbrella theme before naptime.

Maybe now that Daddy is back our educational endeavors will be a little bit more mainstream. :)