Last year my class created our own sandpaper letters and my students were so proud of their alphabet! I wanted to do something similar with this group, so I used some Valentine’s day inspiration to make this alphabet a little sweet. The group I have now is working on lowercase letter recognition, so I wrote all of the lowercase letters on pieces of cardboard.  When I presented the activity I showed the children how to use the glue to “trace” the letters.  Then I gave them sugar shakers that held a mixture of cocoa powder and baking soda (because cocoa powder is expensive!) and they shook the mixture over the…