- Write their name together, and the names of their family members and friends.
- Write out the alphabet together.
- Put together familiar words with an Alphabet Stamp Set.
- Write a card together for a family member or friend. Have fun coming up with a short message and writing it out together.
- Connect known words from other languages with how they're spelled out in that language's alphabet, and write them out together.
- Example: my kiddo loves the film 'My Neighbor Tototo' which has 2 lead characters named Sasuki and Mei, which is written as さすき (Sasuki), and めい (Mei) in hiragana (Japanese phonetic alphabet). This makes it easy to introduce and acclimate the concept of phonetic alphabets when writing out the names of her favorite characters: さ('Sa') す('su') き('ki'), め('Me') い('i').
- Further word-spelling fun can be done by differentiating the concepts of alphabetic, logographic, and phonetic written languages: like the English alphabet, Kanji, and Hiragana (respectively). Logographic languages like Kanji are super fun to share because they're pictographic (you get to draw a picture of what you mean).
- For example: 木 means tree, 森 means forest (3 trees), 本 means book (the extra line represents a cut-down tree). Then pictographic identities compound when combined together, like 日本語 (Nihongo: the Japanese language). 日 (Ni - 'sun') the first character in 日本 (Nihon – the word for 'Japan'), 本 (Hon - 'origin') the second character–when compounded with the first literally translates to "the sun's origin' (or the colloquial 'land of the rising sun'). Finally 語 (Go - 'language') adds the characteristic of this word referring to an established language (as is appended to every word for a specific language, like: 英語 Eigo - 'English', or ドイツ語 Doitsugo - 'German').