Darling Dotted "D"

Are you ready to do the letter D for your Alpha-Bug? Then pull out the paper plate with an upper-case D on the front of it and find the baggie with a lower-case d inside. You may be wondering why there is nothing but a pencil (which does not start with the letter D) in that baggie. That pencil is actually a dot-maker and this is how it works:

Ask your Mom to pour a thin layer of craft paint onto another paper plate. Dip the eraser end of the pencil into the paint, then press onto the letter D plate. Do this over and over to create polka dots! You can use any color or as many colors of paint as you want.

Isn't that darling?

Go hang it up with the rest of your Alpha-bug and then you might look at the library for a book called "Lots of Dots" by Craig Frazier. If you look closely, you might discover that buttons are dots . . . that wheels are dots . . . that ladybugs have dots . . . and that there are dots all around you!

Look at the grocery store for Dippin' Dots ice cream or make a polka-dot pizza for lunch. Take one small bagel half or one-half English muffin and spread it with tomato or pizza sauce. Slice a hot dog and string cheese into "dots" and top the pizza. Bake or broil in the oven until the cheese melts.

Have a delightful dotty day!

Love, Grandma