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November 7, 2012 By Chelsey 51 Comments

Letter Stones

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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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Filed Under: Preschool, Reading Activities, The Alphabet, Tutorials Tagged With: alphabet, letters, rocks, spelling

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  1. Louise says

    November 7, 2012 at 8:55 am

    Love 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!

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 7, 2012 at 1:45 pm

      Thanks! I hope you do! One of our favorite new toys!

      Reply
  2. Regula says

    November 7, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    Great idea. I can use it in my English classes. 🙂

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  3. angaleta says

    November 8, 2012 at 6:48 am

    Brilliant idea! Building, playing and learning.

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 14, 2012 at 9:30 pm

      Thanks! Now to teach Theo not to throw them…

      Reply
  4. The Monko says

    November 8, 2012 at 7:50 am

    we’ve made story stones this way but letters and numbers is a great idea. I’ll have to get to work!

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  5. marigoldsloft says

    November 9, 2012 at 8:42 am

    I love this idea, so creative!
    Thank you so much for sharing over on Tutorial Thursdays, much appreciated 🙂
    x
    Natalie
    http://www.marigoldsloft.blogspot.com

    Reply
  6. artclubblog says

    November 9, 2012 at 4:49 pm

    I love using stones for a variety of arts and crafts projects, and I just love your idea!

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 9, 2012 at 9:57 pm

      Thanks~ You’re blog is so neat. Saw how you used stones in some artwork! Wow!

      Reply
  7. Kelly says

    November 9, 2012 at 8:11 pm

    A fabulous idea, they would be great with numbers too.

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 9, 2012 at 9:55 pm

      Love that idea!!! So many possibilities….

      Reply
  8. Waffle-Wednesday says

    November 10, 2012 at 5:32 am

    I 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!

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 11, 2012 at 11:23 pm

      I think he will love it! Let me know!

      Reply
  9. Marlo says

    November 10, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    great idea!

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  10. enchantedhomeschoolingmom says

    November 11, 2012 at 7:57 am

    What 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!

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 14, 2012 at 9:31 pm

      I love the idea of using them with spelling words! So many possibilities….

      Reply
  11. Mud Hut Mama says

    November 11, 2012 at 10:26 am

    I love these! What a great idea – I’m going to start collecting stones!

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  12. Alison says

    November 12, 2012 at 8:00 am

    I am going to share this with my sister who has little children – I think she’ll love the idea!

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 14, 2012 at 9:32 pm

      I hope she does! I think they would be a great gift as well, I may need to make some for my daughter’s classroom.

      Reply
  13. Octavia and Vicky says

    November 13, 2012 at 12:18 am

    Great idea, pinned it 🙂

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  14. dianaramblesdotcom says

    November 13, 2012 at 5:49 am

    Awesome idea!

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  15. Kerri Warmus says

    November 13, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    Absolutely fabulous! We are home-schooling our son and these will be really special. Thank you so much for sharing!!!!

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 14, 2012 at 9:27 pm

      Thank you! I hope you are able to make and enjoy them. Would love to hear about it if you do!

      Reply
  16. Joyce @Childhood Beckons says

    November 14, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    I 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!

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 14, 2012 at 9:26 pm

      Great 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!

      Reply
  17. Carla says

    November 15, 2012 at 5:20 am

    This 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!

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  18. Becki says

    November 15, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    Great 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/

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  19. Hannah says

    November 16, 2012 at 11:39 am

    What a great idea! I bet our playschool children would love this! Thanks for linking up to Eco-KidsTuesday!

    Reply
  20. Allison says

    November 16, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    I 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.

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    • Allison says

      November 16, 2012 at 9:27 pm

      I’ll be featuring this tomorrow. 🙂

      Reply
  21. jtulip says

    November 17, 2012 at 11:50 pm

    Those are great! So many different games you can play with them. Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library!

    Reply
  22. Sugar Aunts says

    November 18, 2012 at 7:50 pm

    Love the idea! Looks like something my kids would enjoy!

    Reply
  23. Carrie says

    November 20, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    How fun!! Thank you so much for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!

    Reply
  24. tricia says

    November 28, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    Love 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!

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    • buggy & buddy says

      November 30, 2012 at 9:06 pm

      Thank you! And I loved your post about hiding little treasures in your planters~ adorable! Now, I just need some planters! 🙂

      Reply
  25. Karyn says

    January 18, 2013 at 11:46 am

    Fun! 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!

    Reply
  26. Sam @ Thrive 360 Living says

    April 7, 2013 at 1:31 pm

    I have such a thing for rocks. We’ve been using them for lots of activities lately. Yours turned out beautiful and great pictures :-)! Pinned.

    Reply
    • Chelsey says

      April 7, 2013 at 9:08 pm

      Thanks so much! I appreciate your encouragement~ you motivated me to give it another go!

      Reply

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