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Alphabet Activity

This document provides instructions for making a fishing craft to practice letters and early reading skills. The craft involves decorating a container, cutting out letter squares with a paper clip on each, dropping them in the container, and using a magnet on string as a fishing rod to pull out letters and identify or spell words with them. The materials needed are listed.

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Alphabet Activity

This document provides instructions for making a fishing craft to practice letters and early reading skills. The craft involves decorating a container, cutting out letter squares with a paper clip on each, dropping them in the container, and using a magnet on string as a fishing rod to pull out letters and identify or spell words with them. The materials needed are listed.

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Fishing for Letters Sh

Make this fishing craft with your child and use


it as an exciting way to practice the alphabet
and develop early decoding and reading skills.

Materials

Fishing container (ice cream tub


or box)

Acrylic paint

Paint brush

Palette

Construction paper

Markers

Drinking straw or wooden dowel

Small magnet

Paper clips

Scissors

String

Scotch tape

Safety Tips
Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors.

Keep the craft knife out of children's reach.

Watch out for this sign . It means adult help is needed for the particular step.

Steps

1. Find a suitable fishing container. An ice cream tub, tis


box, paper bowl with cover, or similar container can be us

2. Make a hole at least 2 inches in diameter at the center


the container's lid.

3. Paint your fishing container with your chosen color of


acrylic paint. To keep with the fishing theme, you can pa
your container blue.

4. Paint on some fishes and other aquatic creatures. You


also use fish cut-outs or stickers.

5. Cut out fish shapes or 1" x 1" squares from constructi


paper. Write a letter on each square or fish.

We have the following templates that you can print out

Alphabet Letter Squares

Alphabet Lower Case Letters Set


Alphabet Upper Case Letters Set

Fish Shapes

Squares

6. Attach a paper clip to each letter square or fish.

7. Drop the letter squares or fishes into the container.

8. Cut string to approximately 1 to 2 feet in length. T


one end of the string to a small magnet.

9. Tie the other end of the string to the end of a drinking st


or wooden dowel.

10. Use the fishing rod to "fish" for alphabet letters. Can
identify each letter you catch?

11. You can also do a spelling game. Fish for a few letters
spell some words from them.

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