Kid's Placemat

An easy do-it-yourself project: an educational placemat.  The idea came to me because I wanted more ways to expose Madeline to the alphabet and numbers.  So I went to the Dollar Tree and picked up construction paper, stickers, cut-out prints, and the key item: contact paper (which by the way is a pain to work with!).

I made a two-sided mat: alphabet on one side and numbers on the other.  The other great thing is you can use dry-erase markers on it, so if you want to just use to practice writing numbers it works for that, too.  The really great thing is this is super cheap, and it will be a great, rainy-day project for Mads when she gets older and can create her own. 

Note the perfect Spalding print