We all want our young ones to learn their ABC’s but it always seems to be not that fun in learning them. Why not create an ABC party and bring the fun back into learning!!
Decorate your party room with punched out letters (you can buy these in any stationary shop and even supermarkets. Use primary colours on table wear, tablecloths and balloons to match your primary coloured decorations. On each balloon spell out each child’s name attending the party, using sticky letters.
For the children make letter cut-out sandwiches (tuna, egg, or ham using white and brown bread to add colour. Serve alphabet cookies and make a cake to resemble a big alphabet block. If your child has a four or five letter name put one letter on each side of the cake with the first one on top if he/she has 5 letters!
Party Bags
Buy brown paper bags with handles and make the front of each bag look like an alphabet block by painting a thick boarder around the perimeter with a cut-out letter pasted in the front, the first letter of each guest’s name. Fill the bags with a word search book (according to age of child); or an alphabet book; or you could buy fridge magnet letters and make sure the child’s name is in their bag.
Games/Crafts.
Letter T-shirts ahead of time. Buy white t-shirts and iron on transfer paper for your computer. Find a program that will let your print alphabet letters. Print each child’s letter on paper and then iron on to the front of each shirt; the day of the party of each child find their letter and have them imprint their hands on the back of the shirt (using fabric paint). Do at the beginning of the party so hopefully they will be dry before they go home.
You could also play a game ‘what letter am I?’ Place a sticky letter on your guest’s forehead and he/she has to ask questions about the letter, for example what words do my letter come in? It may seem easy to you and I but a 3 or 4-year-old may find this a bit tricky, but on the other hand it’s a great learning game without them even knowing!!
