O is usually one of the first letters that children feel comfortable tracing, since it’s just drawing a circle. After confidently doing his tracing for the day, I sent Travis on a hunt: He needed to locate three things in the apartment that looked like an O.

At first he spotted the underside of his marker, but I knew he could look harder than that.

After some searching, he soon had an assembly: a paper plate, mommy’s bracelet, and a toy from his baby sister.

For lower case o, I simply asked him to form one with his hand. This was an easy day!