I’ve posted about Nature Collages before, but I think they are such wonderful crafts that I will tell you about an up to date post today! I am doing this with my children tomorrow since it has a been a while, and I love seeing how their artistic and creative minds have developed each year. You can find the inspiration over at The Chocolate Muffin Tree. This project goes along with Tinkerlab’s current challenge…Flowers! There are amazing inspirations for this challenge that you can find if you scroll to the bottom of the post in the linky!
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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers
I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.
That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.
One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.
These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.
Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.
These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.
If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.
And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.
You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.
Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!
[Photo: Life Over Cs]

This is awesome!!! Can I write about you in my blog http://www.arushiaggarwal.blogspot.com ?
Hi Arushi,
This is not my work, I just find fun ideas and post about the people who created it. If you would like, click the link on my blog post to go to the creator, then write about their specific post! Thanks for reading!
Thanks so much for featuring our Nature Collages….you made my day!
I love your nature collages. We tend to make them during vacation (I never thought I’d start travelling with glue for a beach vacation)… using giant tropical leaves, coconuts or driftwood as canvases.