Letter-Eating Cookie Monster Printable Game
Before the Moveable Alphabet…
Before the Sandpaper Letters…
There was Cookie Monster.
My daughter gets to indulge in TV time at her grandpa’s house, which she visits twice a week — once just for supper and once for a longer stint. We’ve had to negotiate which shows are available for him and which ones I find appropriate. One of the few shows that we’ve agreed upon is Sesame Street.
This is where Ella first began to learn her letters, admittedly not in a Montessori way. Cookie Monster is often featured in a letter segment, his love of cookies a mere subplot. Ella was often asking to watch Cookie Monster at home, which is an option but I like to reduce TV time if I can help it, so I came up with this DIY a few months ago and it proved to be a fun learning material.
I cut out a simple Cookie Monster face out of foam and attached it to a wooden tissue paper box, which was originally from a dollar store but we found at a consignment shop. I then cut out several construction paper cookies and labeled them with all of the letters and numbers 1-9. In retrospect, I would have written the letters out in the proper Montessori colours (red for vowels and blue for consonants).
The game was that I would imitate Cookie Monster’s voice and request a specific letter: “Me want letter A to eat… “ahhhh.” I liked adding the letter sound to this game, as Ella had previously only been exposed to the letter name through Sesame Street and we are planning on doing a Montessori approach via phonemes. Ella had to insert the cookie into Cookie Monster’s mouth and then I made approving gobbling noises.
Just in case you’re not one to freehand cut out a Cookie Monster face, I’ve created this free printable Cookie Monster letter-eating game for you, to teach your child their letters!
This game could be switched out easily for a version of the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (and her various spin-offs), or a favourite animal eating a treat (Easter rabbit eating carrots, etc).
What do you think of incorporating letters into fun little games like this?
I love this idea. Thanks so much for. Sharing.
muchas gracias