a for acorn.
When the letter G is in focus the acorns can return with the ‘listen – remember – read’ phrase: These acorns are green.

A as forangel 
The lower case a is presented in red because in the Eastwood Colour Coded Phonic Alphabet the long vowel sounds are presented in red.

Hear the glass design expresses the angelic and delicate (fragile!) qualities associated with the gentle nature of an angel, all be it of heavenly or of fairy tale origin.

A as for apple

The lower case a is in pink because in the Eastwood Colour Coded Phonic Alphabet the short vowel sounds are presented in pink.

The earthy sense of a real apple is exaggerated by this apple’s wooden form and notable solid weight when held in the hand.

Here the clay pottery boot has a fascinating real quality. One almost feels a sense of frustration that it cannot be party to a real life ‘wellington’ country lifestyle. Indeed so real is its presentation that this boot may start as a mundane b for boot at the very beginning of the alphabet and then run along to the other end of the alphabet to take up its place as a w for wellington.

Aboot

Ablack boot

Abrown and black boot.

Branches
Barebranches.
Barebrokenbranches.
Brownbrokenbranches.

A bridge Abroad bridge. A blue broad bridge.

Creating curly ‘c ’ letters with curved candy canes.

The dragon above is made of metal and lays across the entrance to the castle park.  This and many of the following pictures have been taken to illustrate examples of local and notable multi-sensory experiences that offer a learner the initial letter sound of each letter.

The next example is d for dancing daffodils daffodils and dancing or diving dolphins.

This is a consonant blend drfor dragon.

This magnificent red dragon is a fine example of art and design and greatly deserves the attention he gets from both locals and holiday visitors. He can be seen outside the blacksmith’s workshop.

The three dimensional structure is constructed from a two dimensional design of flat cut out metal shapes. This sculpture provides an impressive experience not only from its size and shape, but also the effectiveness of its relatively simple design construction.

This design technique could be transferred to the earlier shape of an apple. And if this art apple activity goes well an angel may also be constructed from a simple set of shapes.

The three gate pictures present a real experience of size and the use of curved line designs making the top two dimensional pattern in green and the curves of the three dimensional gold shapes.

When the early learner goes on from g and reaches l this green and gold gate can return this time as A long green and gold gate.

When the early learner goes on from g and reaches tthis green and gold gate can return as

Atall green and gold gate.

Green and gold beech.
Green and gold beech leaves.
Beautiful green and gold beech leaves.

This life size eagle is there for all to see, feel and admire. He guards the church pulpit.

I really like the flying movement that accompanies this enchanting goose which presents the feeling of a real flying goose.

A glass horse

The g and the h are presented in bold and underlined because they are in alphabetical order.

This glass horse certainly does not present the qualities of a real live horse – other than its strong, robust almost indestructable structure. The simplicity of its shape is quite recognisable as a horse, in the same way a child’s drawing of a horse may be simple and effective. This solid shape encourages us to see how even the simplest art presentations, can be both unmistakable and pleasing without needing to present accurate representation of detail.

The horse is associated with our journey through life, and for the young child the etheric quality of the clear glass could reflect their own etheric sense of being that Steiner presented as essential to the young child’s early love of natural beauty, imaginative play and artistic endevour. So we see that posibly this glass horse experience could hold many other appreciated qualities beyond that of the practical aspects of it’s strong almost unbreakable form.

A stunning introduction to the letter J and a revision of the capital C & B. This machine was being used to put the roof rafters the A frames of a house being built locally. The JCB thereby inspired a focus on the reality of a house building project and an opportunity to follow the future improvements when travelling past on the road.

The ash keys offer a wealth of sensory information. They hang like a bunch of keys on a key ring and they make a strange sound when moving.

The small picture of the ash keys can be seen as a part of the larger tree picture above. The visual task is to find out exactly where they can be seen y on the bigger picture shown from this smaller picture of the tree.

Where do these lazy ladybirds live?
I wonder how many local children know where these two over grown and very lazy ladybirds live.

An old oak.

                   This old oak tree is not green.

                   This old oak tree is not green or gold.

(i.e. no green leaves and no autumn gold leaves)

                        The owl often flies into this old oak.

When the initial letter s is in focus the tree can return to illustrate the reading sentence I can see the owl in the old oak tree I can see the owl sitting in the old oak tree When the initial letter t is in focus theold oak may return asThisis a tall old oak tree. This tall old oak tree cannot be green. This tall old oak tree is too old to be green or gold. The bare branches are brown

This golden Om offers an auditory-visual association through both its 3D form and its visual 2D symbol and its sound to be heard and sung with deep resonance.

Visiting an old church offers many multi-sensory experiences, however, hearing and playing a church organ is outstanding delight. Listening to music played on a pipe organ with in the acoustics of a church building, moves something within our senses and inner feelings. This pipe organ offers a musical experience of O for organ. The pipes on this organ can come into a special focus when moving on to the phonic sound of P for pipes.

A pair of pears.         A golden pear.

Here the word gold is in bold because it has been used before and should be visually familiar as a word that can be sight read, recognised as a whole word that says gold. The pair and pear words introduce the discovery of two words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings and different spellings.

Pretty Quail eggs are for sale at our local delicates . They offer a lot of sensory enjoyment not only because of their miniture almost unbelievably small size but they are also good to eat when cooked. Imagine eating a hard boiled quail egg or having fryed quail egg and chips.

R is for rose.

A red rose.

A ruby red rose

It is obviously better to have a bunch of ruby red roses, but this one is great for use in the alphabet games and this one is pretty indestructible and never dies!

This is a yew tree. Where on the large picture can you see these three red berries. Draw a circle around the place where this picture is seen as part of the large picture below.

This is a visual perceptual task that requires the ability to note visual detail in the same way that words always contain letters but it is the exact order and position of the letters that tells us what the word says.