Alphabet Books

Skill Level: Beginner
Time Required: 15 Minutes
Supplies: Printer & paper
Cost: Almost Nothing
Audience: Preschool
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earning to read and write can be fun when you use some of our free clip art letters and numbers. Our clip art is a great homeschoolers resource, or it can help any parent make a game of learning to read. Let's make a book with fun letters for your kids to practice.

We have lots of free, fun fonts on our alphabets page. Our alphabet with animals is always popular. Other playful fonts include our alphabet with eyes and some colorful letters and numbers. We also have lots of holiday theme letters. There are some festive Christmas letters here and here. Scary Halloween letters here and here. There are even some turkey letters for Thanksgiving here.

Park your kid on your lap and scroll through all the free letters and numbers, they'll find something they like. After you’ve picked the style you like, download each of the letters to a folder on your hard drive. If you need help saving the files, see our Instructions to Save Images.

You will have to use either your photo editing software or a word processor like Microsoft Word. Create a document with a page for each letter of the alphabet. In some editing software, it might be easier just to make 26 documents than to figure out how to size the page correctly. You'll need to paste each letter onto the top left corner of its own page. We’ve found kids like horizontal pages – like most of their books.

You can move the letters around on the page for variety if you’d like. Get your child to help. Leave an extra wide margin on the left hand side so you can staple the pages together.

Once you have all 26 letters on their own pages, print your book out using heavy construction paper. You can staple the pages together, or use a hole punch to make a couple holes, then tie the pages together with brightly colored yarn.

Put kid, book and pencil or crayon together and have them write out all the things they see that begin with each letter. Or, if you need to keep two or more kids busy, make it a game. First one to find 5, 10 or 100 objects beginning with each letter is the winner.

When your child has filled all the pages, ship the book off straight to Grandma.