14/07/2026
🧚 🦋 Enchanted story time! 🦋 🍄
ALPHA AND THE MISSING LETTERS PART 1!
What if there was a way to teach capital letters in a way that your child were to develop a relationship with each letter through story telling? This is exactly what I did with my Preps whilst simultaneously teaching lower case letter formation. In fact; this turned out to become a really fun buddy class activity!
All you need is a blank scrap book, crayons and/ or pastels.
First step- Invite your child to close their eyes. Encourage them to use their imagination and envision the story in the mind’s eye while you read the first part of this magical, and enchanting story…. “Alpha and the Missing Letters”
2nd step- Using the first page in your child’s scrapbook, design the front cover!
3rd step- Keep following for the next part of the story!
Part 1:
Once upon a time, in a small, peaceful town, there lived a little boy named Alpha.
Alpha loved words.
He loved reading signs, and books, and letters on envelopes.
Every morning, he liked to check the mail with his mother and see what words had arrived for the day.
One morning, Alpha woke up, stretched his arms, and walked to the mailbox.
He opened it…
and frowned.
On the envelope, there were only empty spaces.
No words.
No letters.
Just blank white paper.
Alpha rubbed his eyes and looked again.
“The words are gone,” he whispered.
He ran to the street and looked at the signs on the shops.
Where it once said BAKERY, there were only long, quiet gaps.
Where it once said SCHOOL, there was nothing at all.
The whole town was filled with silent spaces where letters should have been.
Alpha felt a little shiver in his chest.
He walked through the town and called out to the people.
“Where have the letters gone?” he asked.
But no one knew.
So Alpha followed the old winding path at the edge of town — the path no one used very often — the path that led to the Enchanted Forest.
The trees there were tall and silver-barked.
Soft moss covered the ground like a green blanket.
Light sparkled between the leaves as if the sun were whispering secrets.
As Alpha stepped into the forest, he heard something beautiful.
A voice.
It was singing.
The song floated through the branches like a ribbon of sound.
Alpha looked up…
and sitting high in the branches of an ancient tree was a lady with long flowing hair the colour of moonlight.
She wore a cloak made of leaves and stars.
She stopped singing and looked down at him kindly.
“Little boy,” she said softly,
“what are you doing here?
I have not seen you in this forest before.”
Alpha bowed his head politely and said,
“All the letters in my town are gone.
The words have disappeared from the mail and the signs and the books.
I don’t know where they have gone.”
The lady’s eyes grew wide.
“Oh my…” she said quietly.
“This has not happened for a very long time.”
She floated gently down from the tree and stood before him.
“A curse has been placed upon your town,” she said.
“The letters have been taken and hidden away.”
Alpha’s heart beat fast.
“Can the curse be broken?” he asked.
The lady nodded slowly.
“Yes,” she said.
“But only by finding the Enchanter of Letters —
the one who holds the spell that can return them.”
She pointed deep into the forest, where the trees grew darker and the path twisted like a ribbon.
“Your journey must begin here.”
And with that, Alpha took his first step into the enchanted forest…
