All three of my kids love this Play Foam stuff. I won’t lie, it does come apart a little bit (it’s like a bunch of styrofoam beads magically stuck together without being sticky), and it will leave little beads on the floor if your kids walk around with it…which mine aren’t not supposed to, but obviously do anyway. Regardless, I saw the idea to have your kids use it like playdough to form letters on a card and make an interesting way to “practice” letters without tracing them (I literally just found a kit on Amazon here). My 4 year-old loves this foam and basically only knows the 5 letters in his name – when we’re lucky – and is giving me major heartburn about his lack of letter recognition all the sudden, so I thought this would be a good way to practice that he might be really into. So, it’s been in the back of my head to make flashcards with letters on them (cause I didn’t know you could buy a kit). So, imagine my surprise when they suddenly appear before me in Target’s dollar spot (they’re of course $3 cause $1 would be too good to be true)…with letter packs and number packs! YAY! I will gladly pay $6 for the letters and numbers and save my time for other useless things! 😉
Don’t think I left Target with just my one dollar spot find…that would make my husband too happy, and quiet my screaming kids too quickly. I also found some magnetic shapes and numbers that will be cute for the front of the washing machine (why can’t my fridge be the old crappy magnetic kind…I’d really enjoy cluttering it up) or thrown in sensory bucket. And we’re going on a road trip soon, so I’m on the lookout for new car toys and they had a big pack of generic Wikki Stix (awesome to just throw in your purse for distraction when you’re running errands), felt finger puppets, and tubes of mini building blocks similar to ones that I’ve almost purchased about 10 times from Nordstrom and then resisted. And to cap it all off, they had plastic letter trays that would make perfect art/sensory trays for $3. So, all discretionary income is apparently spent in the first 5 minutes of my Target run. #typical
I know…how can I ramble for 3 paragraphs about a few toys from the dollar spot? But I mean, how can I not? They were super exciting scores in my house and I’m just trying to abstain for a full week before I go back and see what I missed. But, the Play Foam cards were a total score and you should RUN to grab some for your preschool kiddos!