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The craft-bug has bit me this holiday season!

After my #1 Pinterest-inspired coasters (here), I took that idea and ran with it…

I thought why not take smaller tiles and do the “scrabble” thing with them?

The teacher in me began brainstorming ways I could use letter tiles to teach reading.

And I wanted to give Dallas something that would promote letter recognition.

{No matter where the future might take me, I will always be a teacher at heart. Haha.}

During Thanksgiving break, my sis and I made these ABC Tiles for Dallas.

These are seriously easy to make – took us about 30 minutes. I bought the sheet of 96 glass tiles from Home Depot for $5, paper, ABC stickers, and mod podge. The paper was cut in 1×1 inch squares…and we made lowercase and uppercase tiles, plus the numbers 0-9 = 62 tiles.

Oh gosh. I LOVE her hair. And her face. We gave them to her early. Because how can you deny those chubby hands and the voice at knee-level saying, “See? See?”

Through the week, Halley kept the tiles on the chest and one of us would always go over and “play” with her. She affectionately calls all letters “A” now. Haha.

So. Do you need a fun, crafty gift for a toddler or pre-kinder? Make some letter tiles!

{I realize now that in order to make more than three or four-letter words, one would need to make more vowel tiles…I’m a smart one!}