Spaghetti Alphabet

Estelle Brochard

Audience

Children

Attendees

20

Number of facilitators

2

Level

Preparation

15 minutes

Activity

1 hour

Objectives

Learning the Alphabet and numbers

Worked skills

Expected short term outcomes:
Enhance creativity
Fun Learning
Enhance Reading (reading letters)
Enhance Writing (tracing letters)
Enhance numeracy (tracking numbers)

Connection with long-term outcomes:
Promoted Learning
Improved PSS

Prerequisites for the audience

If you have nowhere to prepare spaghetti, you can use strings instead.

Equipment

Cardboard
Pen, pencil, paint
Glue
Board
Markers
Spaghetti

Content used

Books
Videos
Applications

Methodology

1. Preparation

  • Prepare the spaghetti, and other materials.
  • Arrange the room.

2. Implementation

  • Ask for volunteers to write in the journal and eventually take pictures.
  • Welcome the children, ask them to sit down eventually on the floor.
  • Ask if anyone did anything similar before.
  • Explain the idea of our activity which is learning the alphabets using the spaghetti, users will be shaping the alphabets.
  • Give them the cardboards and the spaghetti.
  • Users can glue their work onto cardboard.
  • Users can then color their shapes.

Conclusion

  • Discuss the activity.
  •  Present their work and read them.
  • Ask the two volunteers to write in the journal.