Do Love Dichroic Glass Like I Love Dichroic Glass

Tonight I was wondering what my blog topic would be and as I made some really lovely dichroic glass hearts on the torch I said to myself. Ah, dichro. I’ll write about dichroic glass. It’s that pretty sparkly glass that can be fused or lampworked or used in mosaics. I’ve been fsuing with it for some tiles for my bathroom and I’ve been making dichro hearts for some special orders. Do you work with dichro? Do you know about dichro? Do you know about CBS, Coatings by Sandberg. They’re the best of the best when it comes to dichroic glass. YOu must check out their web site. They have many products to choose from.

A little bit about dichroic glass…what is it? It’s a sheet that has been coated with metals and oxides in a vacuum chamber. The process requires a special chamber and a sheet can have as many as 96 different super thin layers of metallic coating. Check out their site to fond out all the in and outs of dichroic glass. Try it and become very addicted.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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