Toilet Roll Alphabet

We have found a new and fun way to re-use and recycle our cardboard rolls and bottle tops and create them into a wonderful toy to help promote learning about alphabet letters, CVC words and sight words.  We are always discovering new ways to use our Stand Up Alphabet.

What you will need?

You will need 26 bottle tops, 26 toilet rolls (we’ve been collecting for while), paint, scissors, paint brushes, sticky tape and a copy of the alphabet letters and pictures.  You can download and print this here: Printable Toilet Roll Alphabet Letters

Tip: to fit the cardboard roll into the bottle top, I made a small snip with the scissors at the bottle of the roll and folded it slightly to slide into the bottle tops.

Let’s Paint

To make our cardboard rolls a little bit more fun and colourful, we painted them.  Any excuse to get the paints out!

Let’s PLay

Once the toilet rolls were dry we cut out the printable alphabet letters and pictures and sticky tape them onto the roll.  We have laminated our printable letters and pictures but you could alternatively contact them to help make them last longer.

Activity Ideas

Sequencing the alphabet letters into correct order and using the song to assist them.  This is great for becoming familiar with alphabet letters, knowing what they look like and their shape, the name of the letter and what sound it makes.  It is important for kids to understand and know what sound a letter makes for successful reading and writing. 

Teaching your child the letter sound first then the letter name is a great place to start.  Use the pictures as a cue to help develop an understanding and memory for these sounds, ‘a’ is for apple and ‘b’ is for banana.  You can also do this during every day activities around the home such as taking a bath and brushing your teeth, ‘b’ is for bath and ‘t’ is for teeth.

Let’s Learn

The stand up alphabet can be used to make CVC words, words that can be sounded out and contain a consonant, vowel and then a consonant.  This is great for beginning readers and writers as it provides an opportunity for kids to confidently practice the skill of sounding out.

Let’s Learn

Great for learning sight words or also known as high frequency words.  Miss 5 has been learning her sight words at school and has a small amount of homework to help support this learning. 

The stand up alphabet makes learning these sight words and homework more fun!

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