Essential Oil Diffusing Wood Alphabet Tracing Cards
Sensory Alphabet Wood Chips
Scented Sensory Alphabet Tracing Blocks
(I'm not exactly sure what to call them so I'm coming up with lots of titles lol)
Here is a fun DIY Christmas gift I made for my kiddos. My husband has cut down so many trees around the house I'm always wondering what else I could use the wood for besides firewood. I'm really excited how these turned out and my older daughter asked me to make her some number ones to do math with, so I guess that's next.
I found a log about 3 inches in diameter and sliced it up with the circle saw. Then next step would be t sand them but I didn't do that...they aren't that rough, my actually husband asked if I had sanded them because they were decently smooth...I just didn't know where any sandpaper was.
Then I just had fun free handing the alphabet on each slice with the wood burner tool. Mine was from hobby lobby and around $7 with coupon and I don't know if there are better ones out there since this was my first time using one, but it was kinda slow. However we had Christmas music on and the kids were playing so it was easy to just have out and do throughout the day, a letter here a letter there.
After I finished the alphabet, I poured some olive oil in a bowl and added some essential oil to it and then used a paint brush to brush the oil onto the wood slices to seal them and make them scented. So they are like essential oil diffusing alphabet learning wood block things that are also fun to stack as blocks, I should have taken a picture of that! I was inspired by the wooden Montessori sand paper alphabet cards, but also incorporating nature into what we do as much as possible mindset of Waldorf and Charlotte Mason. I made the grooves of the letters as deep as I could to increase the sensory experience of tracing their finger over the letters. Anyways, I get excited about using stuff from outside so I'm in love with these! I had wanted to make a couple sets for Christmas gifts but I don't think I'll have time, but now I know for future gifts what to make!
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