alphabet case

Do you remember this case that I picked up a while ago at a garage sale?

 Instead of going garage-saling this weekend, I pottered, decluttered, made lists of jobs, fed the hungry workers and finished this little metal case. 

I love how it turned out!

 Here's the how to:

First I lightly sanded it and then sprayed the inside with black chalkboard paint.

After several coats I painted the front lid with some chalkboard paint.

I covered the handle with bubble wrap, just because I had some laying around and I put some blu-tack on the other bits because they were sort of awkward shapes

before spraying the rest of the case white.

I played around with some combinations of letters but ended up settling on a very simple abc

Oops started painted before I took the photo, these are just some chipboard letters from my stash- they are now white!

I just went around them with a black marker to give more definition

and here's what's inside:

some magnetic letters and chalk

Just right for my learner readers to practice sounding out and writing.

I can't wait until they get to "play" with it!

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