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Alphabet Glue giveaway!

Today I am hosting a giveaway for Alphabet Glue, one of my favorite resources for book and paper themed fun for my children.

Alphabet Glue is a downloadable magazine for families who love books!  Filled with activities, printables, projects and plenty of inspiration, Alphabet Glue was created in hopes of helping more families to incorporate creativity, imagination and all things literary into their everyday routines.  Each issue contains leveled reading lists, bookmaking tutorials, storybuilding activities and hands on projects that complement favorite titles in children’s literature. Alphabet Glue makes a great resource for homeschooling families, as well as for families who are looking for ideas for crafting and reading together on weekends and during school vacations.  

The magazine is published six times per year, and is a one-woman production, being written, photographed and self-published by Annie Riechmann. Annie is an educator, mama to two little ones and has a deep affection for striped socks, unfinished projects and big bunches of kale. Annie blogs about everything from dangerous laundry piles and picking too many blueberries to science experiments and kid’s literature on her blog, Bird and Little Bird. She is also an associate editor for Rhythm of the Home.

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If I were to name two of my children’s great loves, they would be books and paper.  Librarians sigh when our turn in line arrives and we heave bag after bag of books onto the counter.  I sigh on the days when my children decide that they absolutely must make dozens upon dozens of identical origami boxes.  Alphabet Glue is absolutely perfect for us.  Each issue is packed with themed booklists for both picture and chapter books.  The paper crafts are amazing, and require little help on my part when the older boys get involved.  At four dollars an issue it is an amazing deal.  For twenty six dollars you can buy all seven issues.  (Annie also recently released a special Summer Science Issue!)

Alphabet Glue

I want to share the way I have organized my own issues of Alphabet Glue to maximize my ability to put them to good use in my house (and to demonstrate a little bit of geekiness on my part.)  There’s nothing really special about it, but it’s inexpensive and makes it easier for us all to enjoy the magazine.  I simply printed all seven issues, three hole punched them, and then put them in individual three pronged folders.  I went an extra step and glued the cover page to the cover of each folder so I could identify them easily.  These serve as our master copies.  When we want to do one of the crafts, I simple reprint those particular pages that have the templates we need to cut out so that our master copies stay intact for future reference.  I have a houseful of kids and many of the projects in Alphabet Glue will be repeated over the years I am sure.  When I need library book ideas, I can grab the bound issues that correspond with the season, and carry them with me to the library.

For this week’s giveaway, Annie is offering two winners a set of all seven volumes of Alphabet Glue plus the Summer Science special issue.  For a chance to win, leave a comment on this post.  Comments will close and a winner will be announced within this post on Wednesday July, 18.  Comments are closed.
The winners are Christy:  “I can’t believe I’ve never run across Alphabet Glue, it’s brilliant! …thank you so much for the giveaway.”
and Leanne:  “Thank you for the chance to win this great prize. I will cross my fingers!”

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  1. I’ve had my eye on Alphabet Glue for a while – what a great giveaway! My 3 1/2 yr old daughter would love this magazine and all the projects we could make! Thanks for the chance to enter 🙂

  4. I have been hearing so much about Alphabet Glue lately and would love a chance to check it out!

  7. I struggle in the creative crafting department…though, my dd 7 and ds 5 love crafts. This would be an immense help to me! I would love to win! Thank you so much for the inspiration on your blog!

  10. This looks amazing. I can’t believe that one person puts these magazines together! So much creativity and so much work!

  11. Thank you so much for this information! We will definately be looking into this site!

  13. Never heard about this site but checking it out. My family loves books and reading. My grandkids live far from me, and I am always printing out activities and sending to them. Thanks for this information and site!

  15. why didn’t i find this site sooner! luv this giveaway! perfect for a preschool teacher like myself! 🙂

  20. Thanks for sharing how you organize these– I just bought and printed my first one recently, and have it in a messy pile on the kitchen table, which seems not the best idea. Wonderful giveaway, I’d love to have all those issues full of lovely ideas and book lists. THank you!

  24. hello! I have been reading for a few months and though I am not a parent, (only 16) my sister (11 yrs) and I are always looking for new crafts to do. I love the blog and I would love to win the giveaway, thanks for the opportunity 🙂

  26. I’d love to win! My 4 year old could use some help with the alphabet and I could use some fresh ideas!

  31. This sounds wonderful – we’d love to be in the running. I really like your idea with the folders too; I use those for unit studies and have a big stash of them. Thanks so much for the opportunity!

  35. What a great e magazine and therefor great giveaway – maybe you could give it away as far as Austria!?

  43. Hi Ginny,
    What a great resource to have! Thanks for hosting. I will love to have this guide as part of homeschooling my children.
    Patty
    Wonderful photos by the way (as usual)

  45. Hi Ginny,
    I like what you have done with the folders for reference. Gives me good ideas. Ive had these magazines on my wish list for a few months now, so if I won, Id be elated!
    Thanks for posting!
    Amanda