A-B-C's of ART! Alphabet Art Ideas for Preschoolers

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.

 

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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.

Alphabet Art with Plants

 

D is for Dirt

 

Pink and Purple Paint Print for Kids: Letter P

 

 

Printing Letters: A Paint Project for Artsy Kids

 

Learning Letters: Make An Alphabet Sculpture

 

Model Magic Letter M Art Activity

 

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