Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Recycled Pasta box: I-Spy words window

Make an I-spy window from Pasta box
CJ is a beginning reader and to encourage her reading skills I made an I-Spy window from pasta box. I came across this ingenious idea of making I spy window @ Activity mom blog

I minimized the cellophane window size with scrapbook paper so that CJ can concentrate on small words and single lines.

All you need is a Pasta box with cellophane window, Popsicle stick, Glue stick, Scrap book paper

Steps overview:

  1. Remove the sealing edges of the pasta box
  2. Flatten the box
  3. Cut out a rectangular piece from the front of the pasta box
  4. Glue scrap book paper and minimize the cellophane window. I covered both the front and back side with scrap book paper. So that it can be used as either left hand or right hand window
  5. Glue on a Popsicle stick to the window.
It's fun reading books with the I-Spy window! Sometimes even I use the I-Spy window to read a book to CJ so that I need not point out/follow the words with my fingers.

6 comments:

  1. Oooh what a clever reading aid! Very good idea!! Love it!

    Simple and yet effective!

    Thank you for sharing this on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

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  2. Love the idea of making the window smaller to work on reading sentences! =) thanks for linking

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  3. Thats a clever idea! Thanks for sharing... We might need to make one soon :)

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  4. I like your i-spy idea. I bet it'd be fun to zoom in on the illustrations through the peep hole too - you might notice some new details.
    Lovely to see you at the Play Academy as always.

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  5. Yeah cathy, it was fun! Cj was just peeping through the hole and saying I spy you mommy.

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  6. Simple and cheap. And great learning activity that also includes with thing like I spy. Kids love it! :)

    Thanks for joining us on High paw linky last week. Hope to see you back this week too! :)

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