Weekend Tip: PreSchool Alphabet and Number Scrapbook
February 3, 2008 1:59 am Weekend TipsThis weekend let your child create his own scrapbooks - one for the alphabet and one for numbers. All you need are two largish books, old newspapers, magazines, and old mail order catalogs. In short, anything in paper with pictures that he can cut out to create his scrapbook.
Kids enjoy making things with their own hands, and your preschooler is more likely to learn from something that he’s made himself.
Hand him a pair of blunt scissors (his old baby nail clipping scissors will do fine), and let him write the alphabet on each page, and cut and stick the appropriate pictures himself. It can be tiring, so lend a helping hand.
For the number scrapbook, you’ll need lots of pictures as the numbers increase. Use the catalogs here.
An added benefit: The cutting and pasting improves eye hand co ordination and gives him a firmer grasp to hold the most important tool of all - a pencil.
Enjoy!
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ashlye :
Date: February 5, 2008 @ 12:31 am
Great idea!! I was just thinking about making something like this for my daughter since she is beginning to learn her numbers and abc’s. I think we’ll do ours in a spiral notebook and once her creations are complete, we’ll protect them with clear, plastic page protectors! Maybe she could even use a dry-erase marker to trace the letters and numbers to learn writing skills. It might be a little early for tracing, but it is a thought…
I made a small spiral-bound book for my daughter with all her favorite zoo animals with color photographs. I used my computer to add interesting facts about each animal on the back. Everyone - including my daughter - loves this book, especially teachers, moms. Many of the zoo websites have pictures of the animals on exhibit that can be printed from your computer onto heavy cardstock or colorful paper.
I’ve even used this concept to do a states and capitals book for my daughter too. Although she is a bit young, we still enjoy flipping through the book, talking about the name, shape, capital, and important facts about each state. I’m sure when she is in grade school, learning about the states, this book will be quite useful.
PreSchool Mama :
Date: February 11, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Those are great ideas, Ashlye! Tracing the letters and numbers is a great activity that helps them “understand” the alphabets they’re tracing, as opposed to just memorizing what it looks like.
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