Alphabet ideas!!?

Question

I will be teaching a co-op preschool aged class and need some of your ideas! We are going to make a book about the alphabet and will be pasting, sticking, painting and such small objects(non-food) on pages containing a letter of the alphabet. I want this to be creative and not the same old boring stuff. I need small objects that I can fit several on the same piece of standard sized construction paper. I will also be tieing in the colors along with this, as in we will be gluing blue, black and brown buttons on the letter "B". I Would love to have your ideas, I know you have some good ones!! If you have just 1 or 1 for every letter of the alphabet, post them please!!

Thanks so much.

Answer 1

S - sandpaper, shells, snakes

U - umbrellas (the tiny cocktail type), unicorns

P - pretzels, pennies, paper clip, peas (dried)

E - erasers, ear, earth, eye

R - rice, ruler, (could use tapemeasure pieces), rainbow

F - feathers, face, fingers, fish

U - upside down (people's pictures upside down)

N - numbers, noodles, nuts

Answer 2

First of all, you don't have to use real objects, use stickers that look like the objects!  more will fit on one page, and that way, you can keep your options open!  i think this is a great idea for preschoolers also because you know how much they love stickers!  you can find a lot of them at different craft stores, like Craft Mania!

Answer 3

Some ideas...

A- ants (thumprints then draw legs)

B- blue buttons

C- cotton balls

D- dinosaur, ducks (stamps or cutouts)

E- egg shells mosaic (u can dye the egg shells using food coloring to make it more colorful)

F- feathers, fish cut outs

G- green glitters (mix glitter with glue; brush it on like paint)

H- heart cutouts or stamps

I- insect cutouts or stamps

J- denim cloth cutouts (jeans)

K- kites (diamond cutouts) draw the strings

L- leaves

M- play money, use markers to color it, marble painting

N- newspaper tearings

O- orange peelings, paint with color orange

P- pink paper clips, pig stamps using pink paint, polka-dots

Q- quilt pattern, square cut cloths with different patterns/designs

R- red ribbons

S- sand

T- toothpicks, triange cutouts

U- umbrella cutouts

V- violet flower cutouts (violets); velvet

W- web (drip using plain white glue; or sheared cotton)

X- old discarded x-ray film cutouts

Y- yellow yarn

Z- zigzag pattern using popsicle sticks; old zippers

Hope some of these helps! Good luck!  

We used these items in school to glue, or paint or brush on  letter of the week template.  We used a font which is outline form and we put the items inside to fill-in the letter. In the end, the kids were able to make their very own "My Touchy-Feely Alphabet Book" because of the different sizes and textures of the items inside the book.

Answer 4

We use a child centred approach to planning and base our program on our knowledge of what children enjoy and what the child tell us they enjoy.

For example: B is for Barbie, Bratz, Batman, butterflies, bears & beetles, etc.....

children will be more receptive and responsive if they are interested in the subject matter.

We also have a pet mouse for letter M

This week we are doing "L" and will have lollipops (lotto game using sight words), lizards & a story & craft about lions, using the opportunity to increase the children's knowledge of lions and lizards.

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Answer 5

maybe you should make a book with the sentence for each letter A, all animals at arkansas aim at axes.

Answer 6

Preschool age children learn letters that have personal meaning for them, first.  So they will need to individually learn the letters in their names first, beginning with the first letter.  Make sure each child has a sturdy, laminated name card that they can use whenever they want to.  They can use it to find their name on the sign in sheet or to help them find their chair.  Michael and Mary will learn their M first.  Oh, you both start with M?  Well lets see what comes next! (Great opportunity to teach both of them the letters A and I.)  Encourage them to trace or copy their name from their card on the back of the picture they just drew so you won't "forget" who made that nice picture!

Use the name cards for a transition activity.  Hold up a card and say this person will wash their hands next?  At first you will have to point out that it starts with M.  Emphasize the MMM sound.  Soon, some of them will start to come up with Michael and Mary's names and you can say Good, Johnny!  How did you know it says Mary?  Oh, because you saw the M and the A?  Good, you read her name!

Some will catch on quicker than others.  Keep them moving along.  If they recognize their names, help them to recognize their friends' names, then color words, labels on toys, etc.  

If you're working on M this week, use it all the way across the curriculum.  Encourage them to paint M, find M in magazines and newspapers, draw an M and color it or collage it.  Help them to find the word mom (there's a word that will have personal meaning to most of them!), count the M's they see in the classroom or on a page of a story, build an M with blocks, put shaving cream on the table so they can make M with their finger, and encourage them to make M in the sand table.

Don't just sing the ABC's, because then it's just a song.  Let the kids take turns using a pointer to point to each letter as they sing the song together.

Children learn in different ways, so the more variety in the experiences you provide for them, the more of them will catch on!   Keep reviewing.  When you're done with M, don't forget about it next week when you're doing D.  Point out M from time to time:  Oh, look, I see M.  Remember we talked about that last week?