Alphabet Drawing Board

Make a drawing board with your child for him or her to learn and practice the alphabet.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors. Keep the craft knife out of young children's reach. Watch out for this sign . It means an adult's help is needed for the particular step.
Materials Styrofoam board or thick paperboard Any transparent film: hot laminate film, contact paper or acetate film A4 or Letter size paper Crayons or colored pencils White glue Craft knife White board markers Tissue pape or white board eraser

Steps

	1.	First thing you need to do is to laminate an A4 or Letter size paper. There are 3 ways to do this: 1.) Sandwich the paper in between 2 contact paper sheets. 2.) Go to a copy center and have them laminate the paper using a hot laminator. 3.) Glue the edges of the paper onto a sheet of acetate film. If you do this third option like I did, your drawing board will be slightly wrinkled at the edges.
	2.	Use the laminated paper as a guide to cut Styrofoam board or thick paperboard. The board should be wider than the laminated paper by at least 1 ½ inches on all four sides.
	3.	Glue the laminated paper at the center of the board.
	4.	You can make your alphabet letters or print out any of these alphabet template sets: Alphabet Letters Interlaced with Objects Alphabet Letter Squares Alphabet Lower Case Letters Set Alphabet Upper Case Letters Set
	5.	Color the letters if you chose a black & white template.
	6.	Cut around each letter.
	7.	Glue the letters around the drawing board.
	8.	Once the glue has dried, you can start drawing on your board! Practice writing the alphabet letters and draw objects that start with those letters.
	9.	Use a whiteboard eraser or a piece of tissue to erase and start again.
	10.	You can also use the drawing board to draw anything you like. Exercise your imagination and have fun drawing!

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