Sight Word Board Game

Another sight word post! I hope you are not over them yet as I have a few more fun ideas up my sleeve. Neevah has moved on to her 2nd list of sight words and is enjoying pointing out all the words she knows in books and reading the readers she brings home from school. Over the weekend I made her this super simple board game to play which is a mix of old and new sight words. I included some words she knew easily, others that she does know but is still working on and some that are brand new.

You will need
A game piece - a small toy, lid, button or something similar
Dice
Coloured Paper
Black Marker if making it by hand or Publisher and a Printer if making on the computer

To Make
I quickly made up the board game in publisher (using the circle tool to make the game board and then the text tool to write the words in the circles) and printed it out on coloured paper but you could make it by hand easily. This game was very quick to make so you could easily make a new one every few weeks as your childs words change. If you would like the game multiple times or over a number of weeks I would encourage you to laminate or cover the game in clear contact as it will be more durable

To Play
1. Go around the board and read each word
2. Place your game piece(s) at the start
3. Roll your dice
4. Move the game piece the required number of spaces and say the word you land on - you could also say each word you move over
5. Repeat until you get to the finish

Neevah enjoyed playing her new board game alone with one or more game pieces but she got into it more when she was playing against someone else.

Thank You! the winner is ....

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Mystery Box Bingo

Here is another fun way we have been learning Sight Words although you could use the same idea for letters, numbers or even shapes.

You will need
Coloured Paper
Card
Black Marker Pen
Scissors
Ruler
Nappy Wipe Container or other mystery box

To Make
1. Draw up a grid on coloured paper and in each box write one of the sight words
2. Cut the card into small pieces that will easily fit in your bingo grid
3. On each piece of card write one sight word to match those on the bingo grid
4. Place all the card pieces into the mystery box

Time to play!

place your hand into the mystery box and pull out a word
say the word

place your word in the right place on the bingo grid

While this idea is not new (I am pretty sure we did something similar when I was at school) Neevah had a lot of fun playing bingo especially when I joined in and pulled words out of the box. Neevah also loves it if Mum needs a bit of help saying the word or finding the right place to put it :)

Monster Milk Drinks

At the moment I am trying to bring a bit of fun back into our everyday life. We have just been so busy lately actually slightly chaotic and the fun stuff has been dropped by the wayside. This idea is super easy and the kids loved it!

You will need
White Paper
Black Paper
Black Marker Pen
Glue
Scissors
Sticky tape or Double sided tape
Glasses
Drink - we used chocolate milk but you can use whatever takes your fancy
Straws

To Make
1. Cut out eyes and teeth from the white paper
2. Cut out a mouth shape from the black paper
3. Use the black marker to make pupils for the eyes and then stick them to the glass with tape - I used normal sticky tape and formed a 'loop' with it making it sticky on both sides but small pieces of double sided tape might be easier
4. Stick the teeth to mouth with glue
5. Stick the mouth to the glass with tape
6. Fill your monster glass with drink and add a straw

Time to Drink

Quick Tip: if you are using crazy straws like ours rinse them out with water as soon as they have rinsed drinking the milk - this saves the milk going yuk in the straws bends

The Sight Word Hop

Neevah has recently started school (where did the time go!) and of course along with starting school comes the Readers and Sight Words. I like to mix things up for Neevah so learning is fun there is only so much pouring over books a 5 year old can take. We headed outside for this simple game to review her sight words.

You will need
Chalk
List of sight words
A paved or concreted area

To Play
1. Write the sight words on the concrete with chalk
2. Invite your child out to play - there is a few different ways you can try playing this game

• Call out the sight word for your child to hop/jump on
• Let your child hop/jump around at random calling out the words as they land on them
• Get your child to call out the sight words as you hop/jump around - of course with this tactic you can throw in a few 'mistake' jumps and get your child to show you the right word to jump on

But most of all make it fun! I gave bonus high fives for style ie striking a funny pose once on the right word

Christmas Fun: What is in the stocking?

This was a little game I threw together for Neevah when she was desperate to play a 'Christmas Game'. It was semi successful but I think I needed to find some more unusual items as some of them she guessed very quickly

You will need
Christmas Stockings
Fun or Unusual objects that fit in the stocking

To Play:
1. Put 1 item in each stocking
2. Invite your child to play
3. Get them to put one hand into the stocking and feel what is inside - you may need to remind them not to look
4. Describe what you can feel
5. Guess what it might be
6. Pull the item out of the stocking and see if the guess was right

I filled 6 Christmas Stockings - I included a book, a soft toy, a toy car, a headband, a small handbag and a toy Dinosaur
After you have played once send your child off to refill the stockings with different objects and have a turn yourself :)