About a million years ago I self-published an e-book
on kids’ alphabet art activities. Ok, so it was more like four years ago, but
looking back it seems like a totally other life. My (now teen) son was
still shorter than me, I was teaching children’s art classes at my local museum
on an almost full-time basis, I was just kicking off a career freelance writing
and the thought of being a blogger wasn’t
even on my radar.
(This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure statement for more information).
I’m not sure why, but I decided to look up my old
e-book. What did I discover?
1. I
was a major slacker when it came to self-promotion.
2. I
hadn’t even thought of the idea of using social media as a marketing tool
(apparently, four years ago I just expected parents and preschool teachers to
flock to my book – they didn’t).
3. I
thought that a generic black and white cover would somehow be ok and attract
buyers (it didn’t and has since been changed).
4. I
actually wrote some pretty kick ass activities. I tested all of these letter
learning-artsy adventures out on the children who I worked with at the museum (my
son, even then, was so past doing art with his mom that I wanted to cry). I was
also working for an arts organization that sent visiting artists to preschool
classrooms. So, I was able to use some of those ideas in my activities.
If you are looking for an A – Z of art projects,
please take a look. When I re-evaluated the look and content I also dropped the
price (again, I have no idea what I was thinking, and had evidently priced it
way, way, way too high on the first time around). It includes an introduction that explains product
vs. process and each activity includes a description, materials list, ways for
an adult (parent or teacher) to help the child learn and ways to extend it into
other non-art areas such as math or science.
Whether you take a look at my book (by the way, it’s
called the A-B-C’s of A-R-T!) or not I’m including a few letter-learning art
activities that you can try with your kids. These aren’t in the book, but they
are some of my favorites from more recent days.
Pink and Purple Paint Print for Kids: Letter P
Printing Letters: A Paint Project for Artsy Kids
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Learning Letters: Make An Alphabet Sculpture
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