8: Go on an alphabet treasure hunt!

As you know, my book, Isabella, Rotten Speller, is all about a land made entirely out of letters and this treasure hunt is a lockdown variation of an activity I’ve done with a number of schools. It’s a very easy, but fun activity: the challenge is to go round your house and/or garden and find objects in alphabetical order.

As an extension of the activity, you could:

• List, photograph or draw each item
• Make it competitive! Who can find an item for each letter first?

Here’s one I did earlier (had to cheat a bit on the x!):

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Here’s an extra challenge you might like to try:

• Use your objects to spell out words… like this:

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