Me and my Grace have been working on an alphabet book during some of my days off when little brother is napping. It has been a lot of fun so I thought I would share our first two official pages with you. Some of the preschool teachers I work with make 'tactile letters' with the kids in our preschool classes. Basically, you have a chunky outline of the letter you are talking about, you talk with your child about the letter (what it's called, what sound it makes, some other words that start with that sound) and then you let the child glue or decorate the letter with items that start with that particular letter's sound. The preschool kids love it and Grace has been pretty excited about it too. We started out by taking an old 3 ring binder I had around the house to use as our "book" . We decorated a cover for it and have been putting each letter page in as we go.
For the letter "A" we did apples on an "A". I cut an apple in half and Grace dipped it into red poster paint I found at Walmart. Then she stamped apples all over her "A" page. After we were finished, we ate the other half of the apple for a snack.
Other ideas for "A": apple stickers, art (just let your child draw his or her own art picture on the "A"), ants (let your child make black fingerprint ants all over the "A").
For letter "B" we did buttons on a "B". I put some glue on the "B" and let Grace go crazy placing buttons all over the "B".
We also read some books with a lot of "B" words in them after we were done (Bear Snores On,by: Karma Wilson, and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by: Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault).
Other ideas for "B": blue things on a "B" (let your child paint or color the "B" blue, or glue blue pieces of paper, stickers, etc on the "B"), put bear stickers on the "B", put bug stickers on the "B".
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