Alphabet Collage

Hi! Are you ready for another interesting alphabet activity?

If your child loves art and craft, he/she will love this alphabet collage. It's a fun way to learn the alphabets and words.

Lots of cutting and gluing skills involved so your little ones get to practise motor skills too!

WEEK 7: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

TOPIC: ALPHABETS and WORDS

Note: I was teaching the lower caps when we did this but you could also use the upper case

Materials needed:

old books for cutting
If you prefer not to cut old books, print out at least half an A4 page of alphabets for the child/student to identify. Including those not needed in the word. The idea is to see if the child/student will be able to pick the correct ones.
If you are not using old books for pictures, print out the pictures as needed.
A4 paper (any colour)
marker pen (any colour)
scissors
glue stick

STEP 1

Write the word that you want to use for the activity. In this case, "animals" for the alphabet "a".

Get the child/student to spell the word out loud and identify the alphabets in the word.

STEP 2

Give the child/student the old books or printed alphabets to cut out the alphabets for the word. If the child/student is to young to cut, the parent/teacher should pre cut it for him/her. Let the child/student tell you which letter to cut out. This is to see if the child/student is able to recognise the alphabets.

STEP 3

Let the child/student arrange the alphabets to spell out the given word.

Stick them at the top of the paper.

STEP 4

Using the marker pen, write out the first letter for the word. In this case, "a". Say: "a" for animals while writing the alphabet. Get the child/student to observe how the alphabet is being written.

Next, using a glue stick, get the child/student to trace the alphabet according to the correct way of writing.

STEP 5

Give the child/student pictures of animals to stick on the alphabet.

Then say: "A" for animals.

Lastly, name all the animals in the collage.

SUGGESTIONS

Here are some words that you can use for this activity:

Ball for "b" - different kinds of balls like basketball, ping pong ball, soccer ball
Grocery for "g" - all kinds of grocery items\
Stationery for "s" - all kinds of stationery items
Vegetables for "v" - different types of vegetables
Fruits for "f" - different kinds of fruits

Have some collage fun soon and share with us what you did!😃

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