Alphabet Wall Views

General Goods

Type all the letters of the alphabet using a clear block font that is easy for preschoolers to read. Make each letter of the alphabet large enough that it fills an entire 8 sfrac12; by 11 sheet of paper. Print each letter on its own piece of paper and have the preschoolers help you hang the letters of the alphabet on the wall.

You can adjust the shape of your alphabet wall to the wall space that you have available. The letters of the alphabet can either be posted on the wall in one continuous line or in a block formation that ends after 5-7 letters and continues on the next line. The main idea with an alphabet wall is to help preschoolers to recognize the letters of the alphabet. A block formation keeps the alphabet wall in one location and is easier for preschoolers to work on.

The alphabet wall is an ongoing project. As the preschoolers do projects related to a letter of the alphabet, have them take down the paper with that letter from the alphabet wall and work together to color and decorate it. Cut pictures out from old magazines of objects that start with that letter and help preschoolers glue the pictures to the letter. Find stickers of things that start with the letter the preschoolers are working on and use them to decorate the letter page. When the letter is complete, place it back in itors"s location on the alphabet wall.

A frieze of alphabet flash cards in the nursery encourages your child to engage in word and picture play and to have fun with color. Paint the wall above the frieze a deeper shade than the area below to give the room a child-friendly scale. Installing an alphabet frieze is as simple as nailing up two parallel strips of panel molding: Space the strips slightly closer together than the height of the cards themselves. To insert the cards, bend them a little, and pop the ends in under the strips.