Alphabet Books
Twenty-six little letters are all you need to make up the thousands of words in the English language. Write or illustrate a story about your favorite letter or word in a handmade alphabet book.
This is a great activity for young children learning their ABC’s; early readers developing their spelling, phonics and vocabulary skills; and anyone who likes making up silly words and sentences!
For our books, we stapled 2 sheets of 9”x 12” brightly colored construction paper, cut in half the long way (makes 4 pages). You could make your book as many pages as you like!
To create the letters and words, the Studio’s Assistant, Rebekah Buettner, created master sheets of verbs, nouns, adjectives and alphabet letters.
Rebekah used fun fonts in a Microsoft Word label template and printed the sheets onto regular-weight copy paper.
The template (Avery 5161/8161) really helped keep the words and letters organized on the page, making them much easier to cut apart.
If you are only making one or two books than you could write your words and letters by hand, instead of using a computer. We needed to make hundreds of books, so this method worked really well for us!
I hope this inspires you to create your own alphabet books!
