Stick Writing

We love getting outdoors, but the British weather doesn't always make that the easiest so when we get a bit of sunshine we spend as much time outdoors as possible.  But, the boys never like to just chill in the sun they always like to be busy (sigh, from their weary mother!).

So, on a recent trip to a nearby stately home when the grown ups wanted to sit in the sun Hubby kept Champ busy with some stick writing.

Not too much to write about this really, they wrote names with sticks!  I don't think we'll be winning any prizes for creativity or originality, but hey sometimes simple is best!

Champ is pretty good at recognising his own name and the letters that make it up so he got stuck in pretty quick.  It also gave him the opportunity to identify a few more letters as he had a go at writing his brothers names.

I'm sure this is great for early literacy, letter recognition etc, but I'm not an educator so I won't even attempt to sound vaguely knowledgeable about that stuff.  I was just pleased that Champ was engaged and I got to sit down for two minutes, at least until Little Dude (a.k.a I'm too independent to hold hands or go in my buggy) decided to head towards the canal.......

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