Make It: Alphabet Books

My son is really excited about the alphabet. He points out letters on signs as we drive and finds letter shapes in every day objects. I want to take advantage of his new-found obsession, so I’ve been searching for fun ABC projects to reinforce his knowledge.

One of my goals is to create an alphabet book with him and I’ve found a plethora of ways to do it thanks to talented and creative people who are willing to share their ideas!

Molly from Momformation posted a tutorial for making mini-books, perfect for adding letter pages!
Let’s Explore shows us fabulous photo alphabet books compiled in photo albums-she’s also made books for learning numbers and colors-BRILLIANT!!
Here’s a detailed lesson plan on alphabet books .
I love Sandy’s idea of putting the child decorated letters together in a binder to make a book that the child can be proud of! Add page protectors for a little more durability.

Have you seen any great homemade alphabet book ideas or made one yourself? I’d love to see them!!

One of the subjects that’s often covered in preschool is learning about the five senses. Understanding our senses helps us describe the world around us and our experience in it, and it’s fun to explore the senses in different ways.

Rock Your Homeschool has a great free printables pack having to do with the five senses. I love the foldable activity shown above because it emphasizes that the way we really experience our senses is through our brains. They also have a sensory scavenger hunt printable, which doesn’t include taste but has the rest of the senses included.

Of course we don’t really want kids tasting things they find outside (unless you happen to have fruit or vegetables growing nearby) but I like the way Hands on Teaching Ideas handled it by including “something an animal would eat” on their five senses scavenger hunt.

Sea of Knowledge has lots of ideas for things to do with preschoolers to learn about the five senses, as well as this free with email signup template for making a five senses craft (you could also trace the child’s hands instead of using the hands in the template if you like).

Use a potato head toy you probably already have to play a five senses game with the download from A Little Pinch of Perfect. You could do the same thing on paper with a potato (or human body) shape and color on the different sense organs.

Simple Everyday Mom has a cute set of senses puppets you can print and play with, or use for different projects and crafts.

Preschool Packets has a whole set of posts dealing with teaching the five senses (the one linked here is for hearing but the rest are linked within that post), which includes a great idea for making shakers with kids to explore the sense of hearing.

Tim’s Printables has some cute five senses printables where kids can match the image to the sense you’d use to explore it. There’s also a body to label but I think there’s only a male version.

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