Chalkboard Game

We have been playing a new game at our house recently.  We call it the chalkboard game.  All it requires is a chalkboard and a wet paintbrush.  The idea is to write something on the chalkboard, and then the child has to paint over it to erase it.  We've used it to work on a variety of skills.

Violet is starting to recognize the names of family members, so we played one round where I gave her clues about a member of our family and she had to find that person's name and erase it with the paintbrush.

Then we did a round with letters.  First I just gave her the names of letters to find, then I gave her the sound, and then I gave her words that started with the letter.  We also did a round with lower case letters and capital letters (aka mommy letters and baby letters).

Matias has been learning about "amazing places" around the globe in a neat encyclopedia he has, so for him I gave him clues to a place and he had to find and erase the place.  His fine motor skills got a workout trying to paint over each tiny letter.

There is no end to the ways you can use this "game"...and I will admit that painting on the chalkboard is even fun for me!