🌈 Languages and Literacies

Playful, Inclusive Tools for Early Language Exploration and Communication

Welcome to the Languages and Literacies theme collection — a carefully curated selection of sensory-rich, play-based resources that invite young children to explore communication in all its diverse and powerful forms.

Created with ECEs, English Language Learning (ELL) educators, and Inclusion teachers in mind, this collection supports children as capable and creative language users — whether they are speaking, signing, building words, or telling stories through play.

🎓 Rooted in the BC Early Learning Framework (BC ELF)

The BC ELF recognizes that language and literacy are plural, emerging in many forms: verbal, non-verbal, visual, physical, symbolic, and social. Our handmade tools celebrate this by providing open-ended invitations that:

✅ Honour multiple ways of communicating

✅ Encourage early phonemic and narrative awareness

✅ Embrace inclusive practices and diverse learners

✅ Support language play through tactile, visual, and kinesthetic engagement

✅ Foster joyful, developmentally appropriate language learning through play

🧠 Informed by Multisensory Literacy Principles

These tools naturally align with Orton-Gillingham-inspired strategies and early literacy best practices by offering:

(touch, sight, movement)

like felt, wood, Velcro, and bio-based resin

ideal for preschool and kindergarten

🌟 What’s Inside the Collection:

📚 Build-a-Story Play Sets

Engage children in creative storytelling with themed sets (Space Quest, Magic Castle, Ocean Adventure) that combine visual story cards with handcrafted bio-based resin characters — mermaids, rocket ships, dragons, and more — perfect for sensory bins, light tables, and playdough play.

🔤 Moveable Alphabets

Durable alphabet sets made from bio-based Canadian resin, wood, felt, and Velcro. These pieces are easy for small hands to manipulate and can be used for letter recognition, phonics, spelling, and story-building activities. A multisensory must-have for early readers.

🔁 Consonant Blending Spinners

Handmade spinning tools designed to support beginning sound blending, early decoding, and word creation. Ideal for phonological awareness and learning through movement.

🤟 ASL Wall Stickers

Beautifully designed visual alphabet signage for your learning environment — a gentle introduction to sign language as a form of literacy, supporting non-verbal learners, neurodiverse children, and inclusive classrooms.

🧩 Loose Parts for Language Play

Letters and symbols that can be sorted, matched, traced, or incorporated into sensory and storytelling setups — perfect for light tables, kinetic sand, and classroom invitations to play.

💬 Perfect For:

🌿 Ethically Made, Built to Last

All tools are handmade in Pitt Meadows, BC using Canadian bio-based resin, sustainable materials, and a deep respect for how children learn best — through hands-on, joyful, meaningful exploration.

🪄 Where storytelling, letter play, and inclusive language learning come to life — one small hand, one big idea at a time.