I’ve been wanting to make this set of upper and lowercase alphabet matching rocks for Charlie for awhile now.  He is a little rock collector.  Wherever we go he has to scoop up some rocks to bring home.  I have no clue where his collection is at but he is sure proud of it.

Making it is super easy and we had so much fun with it.  I picked up this big bag of river rock on a garage sale site, but you could even use the rocks your little ones collect to make it less costly.

Paint or write with marker.  I used these Liquid Chalk Markers from Crafty Croc because I thought they were awesome markers, but my original plan was to paint the alphabet on.  I wrote out the upper case letters and then the lower case letters.  

We use the rocks for so many activities.  I am also putting stickers on some of them with an object that begins with that letter sound.  Maggie is also able to read some words on the rocks.  I think their favorite activity though is writing on the rocks themselves.

We also have a lot of fun using the rocks to form the letter shape.

What are your favorite ways to use nature for learning?  Do you have a rock lover who would have fun learning letters with this game?