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Artists of all ages: gather your empty cereal and cracker boxes and get ready for a joyful month of sketching, painting, and play with illustrator, toy maker, and storyteller Suzy Ultman. In this daily practice, you'll turn cardboard from food packaging into a cute and colorful set of painted alphabet letters. Each day, you'll create a new letter, starting with cutting out your shapes using Suzy's PDF templates. If you prefer not to cut cardboard, you can also use the templates as coloring pages. Suzy will guide you through painting specific designs for each letter, but she'll also talk about different ways to imagine your own letters and make them unique. The most important tool here is your imagination, and you can also work with craft paint, paint pens, markers, colored pencils, pom poms, googly eyes, and all your favorite materials. Use your finished letters as flash cards, personalized tags for gifts, banners that spell words or names, and so much more.
Learn how to:
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Alphabet PDF guide — This can be used as a coloring sheet for younger kiddos that can’t cut
- Seven-eight cereal/cracker boxes (you can get about four letters out of each box)
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Pens
- Craft paints
- Brushes
- Favorite coloring tools, such as paint pens, markers, crayons, color pencils
Optional items:
- String
- Hole punch
- Stickers
- Tape
- Glitter
- Pom poms
- Googly eyes
- Construction paper
- Glue
Downloads:
- Make a set of alphabet letters from upcycled cardboard
- Trace a paper template to cut out each letter
- Imagine different ways to paint your letters
- Sketch and paint your ideas
- Use markers, colored pencils, paint daubers and pom poms to add details
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Sustainable Play: Upcycled Alphabet Daily Practice Reviews
32 users recommended this class to a friend
SUSAN CLARK
Fun class for big and little kids! Good ideas to spark others
I plan to make a bunting for the "Preschool " I work at.
July 21, 2024
JR Starzynski
My kids loved this class. We have yet to actually cut and paint any letters ourselves, but it was very inspiring, accessible, and kept the attention of three rowdy 3-8 year olds.
More than 3 months ago