Are you looking for more letter activities for your children to play with at home? These are perfect~ letter stones! I am so in love with them! They are absolutely enjoyable to play with and were really easy and inexpensive to make.
I saw this post on making story stones from Happy Hooligans and pinned it on Pinterest quite a while ago. I thought I’d start saving up stones we found to begin making our own collection, but that was sadly taking too long.
Yesterday I was at Michaels (for something unrelated), and I noticed they had bags of river stones on sale for $1.00 so I grabbed a few bags, some extra Mod Podge and headed for the sticker aisle. As I was browsing for stickers that might make good story stones, I went by the letter stickers. Inspiration hit! Not only am I going to make story stones, wouldn’t letter stones be great?! I searched for way too long because I am overly picky for a bit and finally found some letter stickers that were lower case and a decent font for younger kids. I checked out and headed home.
I set up the work area and rinsed the stones. Then I just applied the stickers to each stone and sealed them with Mod Podge. Voila! Letter stones!
You can never have too many toys around your house that encourage both learning and play~ so excited to add these to our collection! If you have younger children, check the sizes of your stones for choking hazards. These are very small, so we only use them with Theodore when we are right there with him.
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Louise says
November 7, 2012 at 8:55 amLove this idea! I think you are right! This is a great way to teach our alphabet and spell! Can’t wait to get some letters!
buggy & buddy says
November 7, 2012 at 1:45 pmThanks! I hope you do! One of our favorite new toys!
Regula says
November 7, 2012 at 10:18 pmGreat idea. I can use it in my English classes. 🙂
angaleta says
November 8, 2012 at 6:48 amBrilliant idea! Building, playing and learning.
buggy & buddy says
November 14, 2012 at 9:30 pmThanks! Now to teach Theo not to throw them…
The Monko says
November 8, 2012 at 7:50 amwe’ve made story stones this way but letters and numbers is a great idea. I’ll have to get to work!
marigoldsloft says
November 9, 2012 at 8:42 amI love this idea, so creative!
Thank you so much for sharing over on Tutorial Thursdays, much appreciated 🙂
x
Natalie
http://www.marigoldsloft.blogspot.com
artclubblog says
November 9, 2012 at 4:49 pmI love using stones for a variety of arts and crafts projects, and I just love your idea!
buggy & buddy says
November 9, 2012 at 9:57 pmThanks~ You’re blog is so neat. Saw how you used stones in some artwork! Wow!
Kelly says
November 9, 2012 at 8:11 pmA fabulous idea, they would be great with numbers too.
buggy & buddy says
November 9, 2012 at 9:55 pmLove that idea!!! So many possibilities….
Waffle-Wednesday says
November 10, 2012 at 5:32 amI cannot wait to do this with my Bean. He wants to read like his big brother, and we just need to play more games like this. Thank you!
buggy & buddy says
November 11, 2012 at 11:23 pmI think he will love it! Let me know!
Marlo says
November 10, 2012 at 2:46 pmgreat idea!
enchantedhomeschoolingmom says
November 11, 2012 at 7:57 amWhat a creative idea! My kids would LOVE doing this with their spelling words. I have pinned this onto my Language Arts Board. Thanks for linking up this week to my Enchanted Thursdays Blog Hop!
buggy & buddy says
November 14, 2012 at 9:31 pmI love the idea of using them with spelling words! So many possibilities….
Mud Hut Mama says
November 11, 2012 at 10:26 amI love these! What a great idea – I’m going to start collecting stones!
Alison says
November 12, 2012 at 8:00 amI am going to share this with my sister who has little children – I think she’ll love the idea!
buggy & buddy says
November 14, 2012 at 9:32 pmI hope she does! I think they would be a great gift as well, I may need to make some for my daughter’s classroom.
Octavia and Vicky says
November 13, 2012 at 12:18 amGreat idea, pinned it 🙂
dianaramblesdotcom says
November 13, 2012 at 5:49 amAwesome idea!
Kerri Warmus says
November 13, 2012 at 9:36 pmAbsolutely fabulous! We are home-schooling our son and these will be really special. Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
buggy & buddy says
November 14, 2012 at 9:27 pmThank you! I hope you are able to make and enjoy them. Would love to hear about it if you do!
Joyce @Childhood Beckons says
November 14, 2012 at 5:42 pmI love this! In fact, I love it so much I recently did this myself. Lol. You beat me to posting 🙂 And were far more genius about it! Yours turned out wonderful and I so wish I would have seen this post before I did mine!
buggy & buddy says
November 14, 2012 at 9:26 pmGreat minds think alike! Lol! I would love to see your letter stones. Can’t wait to read more of your blog, it looks like it’s full of great ideas!
Carla says
November 15, 2012 at 5:20 amThis looks wonderful! I love the texture of stones, and putting letters on them would make them fabulous for early literacy!! I’m going to share this on my PreschoolPowolPackets Facebook page!
Becki says
November 15, 2012 at 6:45 pmGreat idea! Thank you for sharing on Eco Kids Tuesdays. I think my daughters would love these! I Pinned the idea here: http://pinterest.com/pin/48554502204175563/
Hannah says
November 16, 2012 at 11:39 amWhat a great idea! I bet our playschool children would love this! Thanks for linking up to Eco-KidsTuesday!
Allison says
November 16, 2012 at 8:17 pmI have a ton of stones from Dollar Tree and a ton of letter stickers. I need to make a set of these! Thanks for sharing with The Sunday Showcase.
Allison says
November 16, 2012 at 9:27 pmI’ll be featuring this tomorrow. 🙂
jtulip says
November 17, 2012 at 11:50 pmThose are great! So many different games you can play with them. Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library!
Sugar Aunts says
November 18, 2012 at 7:50 pmLove the idea! Looks like something my kids would enjoy!
Carrie says
November 20, 2012 at 3:07 pmHow fun!! Thank you so much for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
tricia says
November 28, 2012 at 6:55 pmLove this idea! I’ve been trying to do this for a long time and have also got caught up on the idea of collecting our own rocks. I too will spend way too much time in Michaels trying to get just the right stones,fonts, and stickers! 🙂 thanks for the great post!
buggy & buddy says
November 30, 2012 at 9:06 pmThank you! And I loved your post about hiding little treasures in your planters~ adorable! Now, I just need some planters! 🙂
Karyn says
January 18, 2013 at 11:46 amFun! We made some painted ones a while back- yours are darling! Thanks for linking up to Share It Saturday~ I’ll be featuring you tomorrow!
Sam @ Thrive 360 Living says
April 7, 2013 at 1:31 pmI have such a thing for rocks. We’ve been using them for lots of activities lately. Yours turned out beautiful and great pictures :-)! Pinned.
Chelsey says
April 7, 2013 at 9:08 pmThanks so much! I appreciate your encouragement~ you motivated me to give it another go!