My five-year-old has a long-standing obsession with stickers – she cannot ever have enough stickers! If we are going to be taking a long drive or waiting somewhere, I can throw some stickers, paper, and crayons into my purse and we are good to go! Peeling and placing stickers is a great activity for fine motor skills, too!
Sticker Pictures – This is the standard way stickers are used around here. Both the girls especially love using animal stickers and drawing in the scenery/habitat. We have also had fun adding stickers to landscape photos that we took on a nature walk.
Sticker Stories – We love to create rebus-style stories, replacing words with stickers. Take dictation for the little ones, and let older kids write their own!
Make-Your-Own Stickers – Back when I used to scrapbook on a regular basis, I bought myself this little Xyron sticker maker. It was really inexpensive (under $10 I think) and the roll of adhesive seems to last us a really long time. We print out clip art or the girls draw little things, then cut them out and run them through the Xyron – out comes a strip of your own stickers!
Reusable Stickers – Yay for reusable stickers – less waste, still lots of fun! {We have a nice selection of reusable sticker scenes in the Let’s Explore Shop, too!}
Happy playing!
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thanks for this great informative post.. i want to check out getting the xyron sticker maker and love the idea of replacing words with stickers
Love the idea about sticker stories. My daughter also loves stickers. Might try this one soon.
Blessings
Diane
My son is also obsessed with stickers! He’ll cover a whole sheet in stickers…so I just slap some contact paper on top and turn it into an “I Spy” page for him to play with.
That looks like a ton of fun! “I” Love stickers too, so I guess that makes me a Big Kid!? When I was teaching I believe you could have called me a “Sticker-holic” giggle, giggle. I still have a thing for the little devils, now I just use them to scrapbook!
I’m going to share your post with my friends!