Blue Stones, Water Beads, and Color Letter Puzzle

I set up a simply blue play station for Monkey A this morning.  Some empty Gatorade bottles and blue glass stones and she was sorting away happily:

I also offered her some blue water beads.  You can get them already colored, or if you have the clear ones simply add some blue food coloring to the water:

Monkey A loves putting objects into bottles:

I then made Monkey J a Letter Puzzle.  I had some rectangular foam sheets from The Dollar Tree.  I wrote the word, "blue" on both, and then cut one up into pieces

Monkey J was so excited that he asked me to make some more!

And he immediately started spelling:

What a fun way to spell!