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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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  4. We have two issues and would love all of them. Thanks so much for the opportunity.

  5. My five year old grandson, Dakota, is always asking me for new things to make. To be the winner of original ideas from Annie Riechmann would be great. This is exactly what we need to keep him busy until school starts in the fall.

  6. Would my children love you if we would win! Thanks for the great resource ideas.

  7. What a beautiful product!!! Her creativity is amazing!!!! It is truly a blessing, all her experiences, and dedication that she shares.

  10. This sounds like so much fun! My 3 year old daughter is in love with books and would definitely have fun with this too.

  13. I have subscribed to Annie’s blog Bird and Little Bird and I look forward to each of her posts.

  15. I would love some new ideas.As a homeschooling mom of 3 little guys it would be such a blessing!!!!

  19. I know we would use these constantly! What a great idea to organize them in your home! I know I will use something more if it is in print on my shelf.

  21. Ginny – This would be a wonderful resource for my home-schooled grandchildren. Love your blog!

  22. Wow! This is really awesome! I am sure my girls would love it! I would have to say that paper and books are theri favorite things too! Hooray for great resourses! Thanks for offering this giveaway!

  23. Thank you Ginny for sharing this with us. We have been joining in Annie’s Read Aloud Along and thoroughly enjoying it. Thanks Annie.

  24. I would love this! My 10 year old son finally has kicked in with the arts and crafts and just cannot get enough! Thank you!

  26. This looks amazing! Fingers are crossed. I will be purchasing if I don’t win 🙂

  29. What a fantastic giveaway! My kids love paper and glue and scissors and well … they just love to be crafty!

  32. Hello, I have recently discovered your blog and you always inspire me so thank you! We are on the journey of home schooling and loving it ~ the Alphabet glue magazines look so fab we would love to win them please!! Keeping everything crossed xx

  34. How wonderful. I love looking at the ideas you gleen from Alphabet Glue and would enjoy the set immensely:)

  35. I’ve been watching Alphabet Glue for a while now and would love a chance to try some of the ideas. Thanks for the opportunity.

  36. Oh please pick me!! I’d love this for my kiddos! We are participating in the read along she is hosting! It’s great!

  37. These look like really fun ideas. My family and I would just LOVE to try some of them. Crafts do lighten the heart.

  42. I grew up in a house full of books and I’m making sure that my kids do too. We would love to make use of Alphabet Glue. Please?

  43. How wonderful! I have four boys who also are in love with books and paper. I could see them loving this!

  46. I’m just starting into the adventure of home schooling (on a college-student’s budget, no less),and my kids love paper crafts… This would be amazing!

  50. It is fun to see how you use literature as a part of daily life within your family. As a homeschool mama myself, fresh ideas are always a blessing. Thanks for being a blessing!