Fishing for Letters Sh

Make this fishing craft with your child and use

it as an exciting way to practice the alphabet
and develop early decoding and reading skills.

Materials

Fishing container (ice cream tub

or box)

Acrylic paint

Paint brush

Palette

Construction paper

Markers

Drinking straw or wooden dowel

Small magnet

Paper clips

Scissors

String

Scotch tape

Safety Tips
 Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors.

Keep the craft knife out of children's reach.

Watch out for this sign . It means adult help is needed for the particular step.

Steps

1. Find a suitable fishing container. An ice cream tub, tis

box, paper bowl with cover, or similar container can be us

2. Make a hole at least 2 inches in diameter at the center

the container's lid.

3. Paint your fishing container with your chosen color of

acrylic paint. To keep with the fishing theme, you can pa
your container blue.

4. Paint on some fishes and other aquatic creatures. You

also use fish cut-outs or stickers.

5. Cut out fish shapes or 1" x 1" squares from constructi

paper. Write a letter on each square or fish.

We have the following templates that you can print out

Alphabet Letter Squares

Alphabet Lower Case Letters Set

 Alphabet Upper Case Letters Set

Fish Shapes

Squares

6. Attach a paper clip to each letter square or fish.

7. Drop the letter squares or fishes into the container.

8. Cut string to approximately 1 to 2 feet in length. T

one end of the string to a small magnet.

9. Tie the other end of the string to the end of a drinking st

or wooden dowel.

10. Use the fishing rod to "fish" for alphabet letters. Can
identify each letter you catch?

11. You can also do a spelling game. Fish for a few letters
spell some words from them.