Domestic Quest – Little Man’s very own alphabet!

We have been working on setting up Little Man with his very own play area, the downstairs of our house isn’t very crawling baby safe or free flowing so we have had to section off the front room, but I wanted somewhere safe to pop LM while I hoover or cook, somewhere where he can play without me worrying about what he is up to. I will be posting more on this soon as we are nearly done. But one idea I had was that I wanted to block off the bottom of the radiator, when LM first started crawling he’d roll near it and almost hit his head on the underside, we had some MDF left over from his tree, so Hubs quickly cut it down to size and I hatched a plan to make LM his very own alphabet full of geekery. Much of the credit for how this turned out goes to Hubs, without his drawing skills, this would have just been a great idea very poorly executed!

First we decided on what each letter would stand for, then I painted the wood with a few coats of primer and some white silk paint, and then I got designing LM’s letters on Photoshop, using free fonts from DaFont to create letters that were similar in style to their theme.

We then printed the images onto paper and cut them out. Hubs then traced around the letters and freehand copied the detail, sometimes with incredible attention to detail!

We then began to paint each letter with acrylic paint:

 

When each letter was completed we outlined the detail with permanent marker.

We still need to seal the finished alphabet with some acrylic paint sealant to keep it wipe able to stop little hands getting it grubby, but we are so happy with how it has turned out, and LM loves it.

My favourites are P, F and Y!

          

Little Man’s Alphabet:

A is for Avengers

B is for Batman

C is for Cat in the Hat

D is for Disney

E is for Elephant

F is for Fish (One, Two, Red & Blue!)

G is for Gruffalo

H is for Harry Potter

I is for Isaac

J is for Jedi

K is for King

L is for Love

M is for Mickey Mouse

N is for Nemo

O is for Octopus

P is for Pooh Bear

Q is for Queen

R is for Rainbow

S is for Superman

T is for Tiger

U is for Umbrella (Yellow of course *HIMYM*)

V is for Very Hungry Caterpillar

W is for Where the Wild Things Are

X is for X-Men

Y is for Yoda

Z is for Zebra