# Guidelines or Theory for Rebus Creation?

I want to start the creation of educational rebuses for kids, the subjects are math, physics and languages. I have never done it before and would like learn how to create rebuses in general and for a certain subject in particular. I guess there is some kind of guidlines or theory might exist. Is it?

• Should this question be in meta instead? – Dmitry Kamenetsky Oct 24 '19 at 4:08
• @DmitryKamenetsky The question about puzzles are perfectly fine here. The Meta is a place to discuss the Puzzling SE site instead. :) – athin Oct 24 '19 at 4:20
• Do you have a list of concepts to 'rebusize' in mind? – JMP Oct 24 '19 at 6:05

It's also useful to know some common abbreviations for individual letters or short sequences. This could be chemical element symbols (a picture of gold for AU), letter from the NATO alphabet (a picture of an Oscar statue for O) or from other alphabets (a Cyrillic Ё for YO), mathematical constants (2.718 for E), Roman numerals (4 for IV), SI prefixes ($$10^{−9}$$ for N or NANO), etc.