Beach alphabets

About the video

In the video letters are laid out on the beach with stones and shells. At home your child uses 30 stones and 20 shells on a patch of sand or a sand tray to make I, L and O and a stone, shell pattern.

Letters are made of lines, and some lines are straight, like in I and L, while others are curved, like in O and S. Letters with more lines need more stones, so E needs more stones than I.

What your child learns

• Make letters from straight and curved lines
• Count the stones used for each letter
• Continue a simple stone, shell pattern

What's on the worksheet

1. 1Predict first
2. 2Count your stones
3. 3How it works
4. 4Straight or curved?
5. 5Count the beach things
6. 6Finish the pattern
7. 7First letter
8. 8Draw your letter