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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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  2. Oh, how this hs-ing family would LOVE this. I’ll also be checking out her blog. Thanks, Ginny!

  3. I would absolutely LOVE to win this!
    Crossing my fingers!
    Thanks Alphabet Glue for your generosity, and to you Ginny for hosting this!
    xoxo
    ~ joey ~

  4. What a great opportunity. I can just imagine all the fun we would have with this!

  6. This magazine looks just the thing for the grey weather we are having in the UK x thanks for the giveaway

  8. sounds like great fun for one of these rainy stormy fall-ish German summer days!

  9. My children and I would love to receive a copy of this to try. I have been trying to come up with a way to convince myself to get a subscription. This could be just the right way to get me there…. a little taste!

  11. What a wonderful giveaway!!!
    I look forward to each of your wonderful posts Ginny : )

  16. Great giveaway! These magazines look awesome! Would love to do these projects with my nieces and nephews!!

  17. I am always looking for creative things to do with paper. My toddler girl is turning four in two months and loves arts and crafts. This giveaway is great fun… creative learning and brings families together.

  21. I would love to get these issues. I am about as un-crafty as they come & have a hard time making myself do crafts, thus the reason why I have not gotten these books. I’m scared that I would just be waisting more money on craft books that I don’t use. I don’t know what it is about crafts, but the control-neat freak in my just can’t handle them! On the other hand I’ve got tons of kids that love crafts, so maybe, just maybe if I won these I’d be able to do a few more. If not, I’ve got children the age of your boys, so maybe they’d help out!!!

  23. Wow, we are raising three grand children while on social security. The children would enjoy this magazine tremendously.
    I get lots of ideas from your blog…and enjoy seeing your family and gardening pictures and what other eople are knitting and reading.
    Keep up the good work…….

    Joyce

  24. What a wonderful gift that will truly bless the family that receives it. Great for the homeschooling family. Thank you for sharing, even if I did not win, now I know about this wonderful magazine.

  25. As a new mama to children who joined our family knowing nothing about art and 10 months later are art obsessed, this would just be wonderful! Thank you for the opportunity!

  32. Wow, what a generous giveaway! I’ve been on the fence about a subscription. If we win, I think we’ll put it to good use with the cousins, too!

  36. Oh… my children would love this and me, too. Thanks for the opportunity to win.

  38. This magazine looks so appealing. I am a children’s librarian and could use the ideas. Thanks for letting us know about Alphabet Glue.

  41. I’ve been wanting to try Alphabet Glue for quite awhile now. Great suggestion for organizing the issues, too!

  43. I’ve been looking at Alphabet Glue for a while now but haven’t yet committed – however, I think my oldest is just old enough now to really get something out of it. With baby #3 due this February it is probably time for me to get everything together so that we can do lots of crafts when both winter and the baby arrive. (We live in the north – it gets cold here). I would love a chance to win. Thank you for this giveaway.

  44. That looks so wonderful and with a new baby due in a few weeks, it would be nice to have little hands busy with activities!

  46. Looks like more wonderful projects for my 5-6 year old Sunday School kids!