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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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  8. Looks like fun. My parents owned a printing business, so I grew up with unlimited access to all kinds of paper and attribute my love of crafts to it.

  10. Wow! What a fantastic giveaway. I would love to be the recipient of this. I’ve been contemplating getting a subscription. If I don’t win, I’m going to have to take the plunge.

  11. My girls are just getting to an age where we can do activities and (organized) crafts. Thank you for the chance to win!

  13. I would LOVE to win! My girls are forever doing projects and checking out stacks of books from the library.

  17. This is another wonderful giveaway that my kids would love. Thanks, Ginny and Alphabet Glue!

  24. Ginny, you have the most amazing resources. Thanks for the introduction and for the contest.

  26. Thankfully our library has self serve library check out and in! This looks very lovely!

  35. I’ve been wondering about trying one of these……….we are very wet and rainy over here in the UK and need some help with indoor activities!

  37. This is something that I have been looking for! My 3 1/2 year old is starting to get really interested in crafts and such. Thanks for the giveaway.

  43. We will be starting “preschool” homeschooling with our oldest this fall and she has quite a love for books. A resource like this seems like it would be great for us!

  44. Alphabet Glue sounds great! We could use some new inspiration for activities. Thank you for doing this.

  47. Seems like a great product. When my kids are older I’ll definitely become a subscriber. 🙂

  49. Hi Ginny,
    Thank you for hosting this givaway! This sounds like a great magazine, I wonder if all homeschoolers share the same love of books and paper-crafts? They are so familiar in our home!
    Thanks again,
    Danielle K.