Alphabet letters shaped like objects
Alphabet Letters in Objects
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Speaking of spring {because it’s coming soon…hopefully…}
Last spring I was able to visit my uncle’s farm with my family. We lived there when I was younger and a lot of things have changed since I’d been there last. I was impressed to grab my camera and capture the way it was then, before anything else from my childhood memory changed again.
As I was wandering and reminiscing of old times, I started to notice the beautiful color, texture, pattern, and shapes of the farm elements. I started zooming up on them and found that some of the shapes resembled letters of the alphabet! Just a few days before, I had noticed a piece of art spelling out a word using photos of architecture…then it clicked! I could make my own word art with farm equipment! Not only would it be my own creation, it would be sentimental of my childhood and family’s farm!
I ran {ok, walked quickly} back to grandma’s house, grabbed my sister, a piece of paper and pencil. Together we decided how many we would need of each letter. {We used the Scrabble game for inspiration.} Knowing we needed multiples of the vowels and popular letters…we set out on a Letter Scavenger Hunt.
We used the “macro” setting on the camera for smaller items for best quality.
One of the most important things we learned was to do it all the same day and in a timely manner. We had a storm roll over us at one point and the lighting of those letters look a lot different than the others. So keep in mind time of day and lighting if you are planning on using the colored versions.
If not, change them to black and white and no one will know the difference! 😉
Get it? HDS=HowDoesShe
Your letters can be used in dozens of ways! Display your last name or kid’s names in their bedrooms!
Expression words are “fun” too!
Or holiday words such as “lucky, boo, joy, peace”…the options are ENDLESS!
*Hint, keep in mind the frame you want to use so you take your photos the right way {vertical vs. horizontal}
Now get yourself outside on these early spring days and have a letter scavenger hunt! Challenge your kids to find the letters to their names or favorite words! Make it a family scavenger hunt! {Don’t forget to take pictures of your kids having fun…because that’s where the memories come…from having fun!}
Happy Hunting!
Sincerely,
{Caley}
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17 alphabet games
A rare child gets acquainted with the alphabet only at school.
Modern parents strive to show the letters to the baby and teach them to distinguish them as early as possible. How can I do that? Of course, in an entertaining way! Educational psychologist Samira Filatova talks about games for learning the alphabet for preschoolers.
Samira Filatova, teacher-psychologist of the Academic Gymnasium of St. Petersburg State University
Acquaintance with letters
I would conditionally divide all the ways of learning the alphabet into exercises "at the desk" (they are usually given in teaching aids), outdoor games and those that are aimed not only at memorizing letters, but also at developing fine motor skills, creativity, creative abilities. And each child at a different time may come up with all these methods.
The first thing to do to get to know the letters is to hang the alphabet on the wall. Most often, you can find options with the image of objects whose names begin with the specified letter. Better yet, an alphabet with sound effects.
It is desirable that not the letters of the alphabet are pronounced, but the sounds that they designate, that is, not "Ka", but [k]. It is believed that thanks to this approach, it will be easier for a child to learn to read.
So, the acquaintance with the letters has happened, now you can start memorizing them. The game is the best for this. After all, the game is the leading activity in preschool age. Learning through play is effective and, with the right approach, will not tire the child.
At-the-Desk Exercises
You can purchase special manuals, print them off the Internet, or even draw the letters yourself. What kind of assignments can you come up with?
Find the desired letter among other letters . Arrange the letters randomly on a piece of paper. Name any of them, and the task of the child is to find it. It happens that children themselves name the letter they want to find. In this case, do not refuse them.
Find the correct letter in the drawing . The task differs from the previous one in that the letters are, as it were, built into the picture. For example, a house, trees, flowers, swings are depicted. The letter "P" can be window sashes or swings; the letter "M" - grass; the letter "K" is hiding in the branches of trees. A more difficult version of this game is to find objects in the picture that begin with the desired letter.
Find letters of the same color, size, name them. Letters of different sizes and colors are “scattered” on a sheet of paper. The child needs to find all the letters that are the same according to the given criteria and name them. A more complicated option is to change the orientation of the letter in space. Then the variant of the task may be as follows: "Find all the letters that lay on the left side."
Assemble the letter as a mosaic . Write the letter so that it occupies the entire sheet, color and cut it into squares, triangles, any shapes.
You can also entrust this to the baby if he already knows how to use scissors. In this case, you need to make the markup with a dotted line to make it easier for him to cut. The task of the child is to put the letter back from these figures.
What else can you do with letters on paper? Coloring them, tracing them with a dotted line - there are many options for action.
I would also include in this group the game "Memory" , in which you need to find the same letters. You can complicate it: name not only the matching letters, but also the words that begin with them. Picture Lotto is also great for learning the alphabet.
Those who have already mastered the letters can try to start reading. It will be very useful for learning syllables "Cashier of letters and syllables" . You can buy it in the store or print it yourself from the Internet. How to play with her?
Prepare pictures of animals and objects, select cards with letters and syllables and ask the child to match them.
In the future, you can complicate the task: give children syllables in the wrong order (for example, “Ka” and “Mouse”, which he must match with the image of a mouse, for this he will have to rearrange the syllables). I would mark this task as one of the most useful. Teachers recommend teaching children not only by choosing the right solution, but also by searching for inconsistencies, inconsistencies, and wrong answers. This develops the ability to analyze, and in the future - the ability to critical thinking.
Creative games that help develop fine motor skills
Here the kid will make letters on his own : sculpt them from plasticine or dough, decorate cardboard blanks with coins, buttons and beads, make crafts from improvised means (designer, twigs, leaves, cotton swabs, sweets ).
Have your child draw letters on the sand (you can use kinetic). Working with sand is useful for the development of fine motor skills, as well as for optimizing the psycho-emotional state.
Let the kid choose what he wants to draw. Show by your own example what needs to be done: start writing short words or names in the sand, you can add a beautiful ornament and write the letters themselves in a special graceful handwriting.
Children love to play with magnetic letters . Try leaving short messages to each other by posting them on a refrigerator or a magnetic board, or compete to see who can write the longest word or the most short ones.
You can combine these options: bury plastic letters in kinetic sand, and then, while digging, name them. An "advanced" option is to invent fairy tales about these letters.
Use interactive books in which the child presses on a letter and hears the corresponding sound. But before you bring such a book home, make sure that the sounds in it are pronounced correctly.
Outdoor games
Print letters on sheets of paper and stick them on furniture and walls. The task of the child is to find the letter , which you will name.
Use blocks with the letters that you probably already have in your home. It is interesting to play this game with several children at once: the host rolls a die, and the players name and depict an animal or object with the letter that has fallen out.
I will share my own experience of how I played with my daughters. At first, the girls laid out large 9s in a chaotic manner on the floor.0023 soft puzzles with letters . Then I called them in turn the letters on which they should stand. The one who does not make mistakes wins. This game is also interesting because the letters can be arranged as you like: on their sides, upside down. At the same time, children learn to recognize the outlines of a letter, regardless of its orientation in space.
Whatever games you choose, it is important that they are interesting for the child. If he doesn't want to play them, gets distracted, you can't insist. Look for other game options or wait for a more suitable occasion.
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In it you will find the most popular play sets designed to learn the letters of the alphabet, elementary geometric shapes and numbers for counting. The colorful alphabet for children was developed taking into account age-related psychology: at a younger preschool age, visual memory is very well developed in children. They are attracted to bright pictures that they quickly remember. They easily learn letters for kids due to simple and understandable associations proposed by the authors of developing children's games.
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Already at the age of five, boys and girls can name objects in which they recognize familiar figured outlines, are able to draw a house using a triangle, a square and a rectangle. The circle turns into a balloon, a snowman or the sun - with the right approach, children's imagination is limitless.
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