Christmas is coming and for my very young nephew I have bought some hiragana blocks and an Anpanman book of hiragana, with pictures of things that begin with the kana.
I want to learn how to teach hiragana in a ‘A is for Apple, B is for book’ type way. How do japanese people do this? What should I say?
Here’s an example:
The general format for any letter is (word)の(letter).
The Japanese word for ant is あり and so it’s used for あ in the poster.
To say あ is for あり you would say「あり」の「あ」。
Hope this helps! 
Other variations:
Similar to the one above but some words have rendaku.
「もっとあいうえおひょう」This one fully focuses on rendaku and other fun combinations!
Edit: I realized afterwards that you already have teaching material so you don’t have to use the poster but you gotta admit it’s cute though 
Also, to lessen confusion, I replaced the original poster (the one with the duck as あ) with the current one above because the duck one used rendaku words. Thanks for pointing this out @seanblue! Lastly, I apologize for the large picture size. I couldn’t figure out how to make them smaller without compromising on readability 
Thanks for that. I’m very pleased that the first square is 「わに」の「わ」
Last square on that row. ^-^ Right to left.
Sorry, pedantic.
It’s a neat idea. And now I know the word for ladybug! XD
Isn’t it a little weird that the chart uses rendaku for the first character for some of the words? Like じてんしゃ for し.
Not really. It is just a modification.
Oh nice catch! I’ll add another example that doesn’t do that for clarity.
These examples are fantastic! My daughter will start studying Japanese next year, and I bought her a similar poster, but I am tempted to put these up as well.
I really like these ones as well because they’re super cute! 
You can also type in either あいうえおひょう or ひらがな表 into google and find hundreds of other examples too.
I’d say print out a bunch! The more the merrier! And since the words can differ from poster to poster, it’ll be a good way to learn vocabulary as well as solidify hiragana.
Hope your daughter enjoys learning Japanese! 
Thanks for the poster!
I especially like that they used 猫 for ね！ 
You’re welcome! 
Also, they used a cat for にゃ in the third one 
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