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As I mentioned recently, I've been doing a lot of No Time For Flashcards-inspired letter art with Junie lately. We started with an alligator A copied directly from one of their projects, but have mostly been coming up with our own ideas for the letters - I try to get Junie to come up with something, although sometimes she does it entirely on her own (jack-in-the-box J, Ernie E) and sometimes she needs a little more prompting (nose/neck N). Sometimes what she comes up with first is a great word ("dirty" for D, "idolize" for I (which she knows from "A You're Adorable")) that would be difficult to make into a picture and I encourage her to keep thinking of more words until she comes up with one that I think I can do.

Many of these follow the same basic format: I draw the letter (or some components) on a piece of paper and give it to her to paint or color. Then I cut it out and we glue it to a backing page, then I draw and cut out accessory pieces for her to glue or stick on (anything small enough I do on mailing labels). (I will sometimes help her place things where getting them just right will make a big visual difference - the big underpants on the U, the wax-paper "glass" over the water with the ice cubes.) She loves doing them and I'm fascinated to see what words she'll come up with for different letters (or what letters will totally baffle her - I pretty much had to give her "nose", she couldn't come up with any N words at all).

Alligator A (with monkey ms), butterfly B, caterpillar C (with cantaloupe c), dancing D, Ernie E (with Bert), flower F; jack-in-the-box J, underpants U, nose and neck N, ice cube I.

Dancing D was not originally intended to have a head, but then Junie said "it has to have a face!" and seemed upset by the idea that it might not, so one was hastily supplied. Things without faces = disturbing, I guess.