My oldest is your textbook academic learner. She can sit still and trace homeschool workbooks for hours. But she’s also EXTREMELY creative. So I wanted to make it a little more fun than just tracing letters when we started learning how to write the alphabet.
So I made little alphabet fairies. Each fairy was a word that started with the letter of the alphabet. I’d make one each evening out of felt and super glue and hide it in the playroom for her to find when she woke up in the morning. For example, there was a Bee fairy and a Cat fairy, etc. I think the most fun ones were the Volcano fairy and the Xylophone fairy!
My daughter LOVED these fairies! I made then when she was 3 and she often looked at them when trying to remember how to write a certain letter. She is 5 now and she still plays with them, and often mentions them when we’re working on spelling.
Homeschooling Outside the Box 