Friday 27 September 2013

Learning letters outside

We like to take learning outside. Yesterday, having read a story book which showed a letter made with sticks and a feather, the two younger children (aged 6 and 4) and I went outside to make letters. This is such a simple idea but was great fun and a way to enjoy the fine autumn sunshine.

This was so easy and fun. I was particularly impressed with how keen Youngest Son was about this.


Capital A. The book we had been reading, Angelo by David Macaulay, had shown a capital A so I made this to demonstrate the idea to the children.


The first letter Youngest Son created. "M for Mummy".

Younger Daughter started with a lower case i

She followed this up with a capital E.

Youngest Son is into treasure maps so made several x symbols.

Lower case n.

Upper case N.

e from acorns.

r from old leaves

p was made by Younger Son with some help for the curved portion ( a twig with a break or two)



Youngest Daughter made a question mark.


We made several more although not quite the whole alphabet! This did seem a cumbersome way of making words although it would be fun to learn simple words using leaves and twigs. Perhaps, next week.










14 comments:

  1. lovely Sarah! I love it when we can take the learning outside too

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  2. I LOVE this! I'm so glad to have blog posts like this to help me get more creative! I'm definitely pinning this one :)

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    1. This was so easy-just bits and pieces around in the garden.

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  3. What a neat idea! And simple, and cheap! That's always a plus. LOL :)

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  4. What a good idea! It is so much fun to go outside to learn when the weather is nice.

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    1. We had had several days of bad weather,last week so it was good to be able to enjoy the sunshine. Working outside seems to work really well for my little ones.

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  5. Now that is a really creative idea using the things in nature to make letters. It looks like a lot of fun as they would be hunting for neat things to use. Might have to try this with my daughter.

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    1. Yes, I loved the way that they found different types of leaves and the windfall apples.

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  6. Great idea! I never thought of using bits and pieces like that!

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  7. What beautiful red leaves! We did something a bit similar which you might be interested in: http://www.helenforhisglory.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/if-you-go-down-to-woods-today.html

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    1. Helen, I love the idea of just seeing letters in the shapes of trees. I think we will do this the next time we walk in the woods.

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