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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:
🔹 Perler Beads
🔹 Heat-safe Paper
🔹 Perler Pegboard
🔹 Iron

Play:
🔸 Pick up beads
🔸 Sort by color
🔸 Name each color
🔸 Build shapes or make pictures

Make:
🔹 Build letters on pegboard
🔹 Cover in heat-safe paper
🔹 Iron for a few seconds to fuse (both sides)
🔹 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!

A classic children’s activity with a twist

Chopstick Bead Sorting Activity for Kids

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:
🔹 Colorful plastic beads
🔹 A container for sorting (could be a muffin tin, paper cups, etc)
🔹 Kid’s chopsticks (or even just their fingers!)

What you do:
🔸Pick up one bead at a time
🔸Sort by color, shape, or size
🔸Name 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!