Create your own Korean alphabet set with Perler beads
DIY Perler Hangul Set
Are your kids creative? Are you looking for a Korean alphabet set? Make your own colorful set together with Perler beads! If you’ve never used Perler beads before, they are plastic beads that you can fuse together with an iron to create all sorts of fun things! An adult will definitely have to do the ironing, but the kids have fun creating the letters.
What you need: πΉ Perler Beads πΉ Heat-safe Paper πΉ Perler Pegboard πΉ Iron
Play: πΈ Pick up beads πΈ Sort by color πΈ Name each color πΈ Build shapes or make pictures
Make: πΉ Build letters on pegboard πΉ Cover in heat-safe paper πΉ Iron for a few seconds to fuse (both sides) πΉ Let cool before handling
Language Booster: Practice naming colors and shapes in your target languages, while building and creating fun trinkets! Teach your child the Korean alphabet and the letter sounds as you create them together. When you are done, you have a complete set of alphabet toys to use in future activities – we turned ours into magnets for our fridge!
Our kids are big fans of Perler beads! They love to create their favorite Pokemon and video game characters, so they are very familiar with the process. Before making our Hangul set, we played with the beads and created fun designs. The kids were able to exercise their creativity while also squeezing in some language education!
Here is a great activity that will keep your kids busy for HOURS! It’s a bead-sorting game… with a twist! This activity strengthens your child’s pincer grip, teaches them colors and shapes, can be a great opportunity to boost language-learning, and of course teaches them to sort objects into groups. You can start out simple and build up the challenges as your child gets better at the activity – even my 6 year old loves it!
What you need: πΉ Colorful plastic beads πΉ A container for sorting (could be a muffin tin, paper cups, etc) πΉ Kid’s chopsticks (or even just their fingers!)
What you do: πΈPick up one bead at a time πΈSort by color, shape, or size πΈName each color or shape as you play
Language-Booster: You can play this game in any language with your child, and in as many as you’d like – it won’t feel like learning, because they are having fun and focusing on the task of moving beads from one container to another. They will want to play over and over again!
When first introducing this activity to my 3-year-old son and niece, we started out simple, only concentrating on how to use the chopsticks and letting them move the beads to whichever cup they wanted. As they got the hang of that, we started sorting the beads by color, naming each out loud in both English and Korean languages. The great thing about this activity: you can add to the challenges, change the sorting criteria, and use with any language you are teaching your child! The possibilities are endless!
If you’re looking for worksheets and coloring sheets to boost your child’s Korean language education, you’ve come to the right place. We have several downloadable resources available in our online shop – and they’re FREE!
Free Downloadable Worksheets in Store
Our worksheets pair well with our Bilingual Learning books and can be used to increase vocabulary retention in a classically fun way! The tactile experience of drawing and writing on paper offers many benefits for children’s development – including the Pincer Grip, which is a crucial fine motor skill. Educational apps can be great, but studies show that the growing use of tablets by young kids is interfering with the strengthening of their hand muscles, resulting in school aged kids unable to correctly hold a pencil and write legibly.
Whether you are teaching your child Korean at home or they attend a Korean language program at school, our worksheets are a great way to boost their language education while strengthening their fine motor skills. Simply add the worksheets to your cart while shopping and you will be sent a link to download the files. Once you have them, you have them forever – print as many as you’d like!
μλ νμΈμ! We finally started a blog! We wanted a place to share tips, tricks, ideas, activities, and resources with families wanting to teach their children the Korean language. For anyone who isn’t yet familiar with our company, let me give you a brief introduction:
I am passionate about bilingual education. As a child growing up in a Korean-American household, I was interested in learning the Korean language and my mother taught me basic concepts, such as counting, and common phrases, like “Hello,” “Good-bye,” and “I love you.β I loved to read and found myself wishing I had books in Korean, but it seemed impossible to find any at our local bookstore or library. I went on to learn Spanish and continued to try to teach myself Korean with dictionaries and by listening to pop songs. When I became a parent, I knew I wanted to raise my children bilingually, so I introduced them to Spanish and the little Korean I knew, but I still found it impossible to locate bilingual children’s books that taught the Korean language. I joined a couple of mom groups on Facebook in hopes of finding resources and books, but discovered that most families were either buying Korean books from overseas or simply using label makers to add Korean text to books they already had. This is extremely resourceful, but with over 1.2 million Americans speaking Korean, I really feel there ought to be easier access to quality bilingual books that teach the language.
I decided I wanted to create bilingual books my children would love and I dedicated every day to researching, writing, illustrating, and designing my very first Bilingual Learning book. I wanted it to not only include both English and Korean languages, but easy-to-read transliterations to accompany the Hangul (νκΈ – Korean written language) for anyone who cannot yet read the Korean alphabet. When I was ready, I printed out the PDF at home, introduced it to my kids and they loved it!
I decided to publish it and make it available to other families looking for Korean-English baby books. I discussed the idea with my husband, family, and friends and, after many months of hard work, I launched Aerilyn Books, which I named after my daughter. At the time of writing this, I have published two Bilingual Learning books: Colors | μμ and Numbers | μ«μ.
Child reading Colors | μμ while riding in the car.
Colors | μμ teaches children the colors of the rainbow, in sequence, plus other common colors. Each color is introduced by name and also used in a simple sentence accompanied by beautifully illustrated animals. Target vocabulary words are color-coded for visual learners, transliterations allow adults who cannot read Hangul to pronounce the words when reading aloud to their children, and the illustrated animals provide additional vocabulary that will maintain your child’s interest.
Numbers | μ«μ introduces children to the Korean native number system by counting fruits and veggies from 1 to 10. Each number is identified by name and used in short simple phrases along with paper cut-out illustrations of common fruits and veggies, providing additional vocabulary and reinforcing familiarity with healthy food choices.
Bilingual Learning books: Colors | μμ and Numbers | μ«μ
The Bilingual Learning books are made of durable board for repeated handling by little hands, and are conveniently sized for taking along anywhere. We will be announcing the third title in the series January 2, so stay tuned for that!
In addition to our popular books, we post FREE illustrated vocabulary cards, with audio, Monday through Friday on our Facebook and Instagram pages, so you can introduce your child to a new vocabulary word every day of the school week. Make sure to follow us to take advantage of the free resources and stay up-to-date with announcements, events, and giveaways!
We will post a new blog entry whenever we have new resources to share with you: language-boosting activities, downloadable worksheets and coloring sheets, new book announcements, book-signings, and more – we hope you will find our content valuable in your journey of raising bilingual children!
