Did you know that hiding Easter eggs can be educational? Especially when your student is learning sight words. Just write a sight word on each plastic or real egg you hide. Then call out a sight word and have your student find the egg that has that sight word written on it.
You could also try this activity using flash cards. Just hold up a sight word flash card and have your student read the card outloud. Then have your student find the egg with that sight word. To make it more fun for your student, let them eat the candy found in the egg! Happy Easter!
I love finding new sight word activities on the web. I found the following sight word activity on the website Making Learning Fun. Check it out:
1. Get a paper plate and cut out a handle as shown below.
2. Get a second paper plate and cut it in half.
3. Decorate and color the two plates.
4. Staple the two plates together or punch holes around the edge and lace it with yarn.
5. Print off the sight word eggs found on this website. Color them and then cut them out.
6. Put all of the eggs in the basket.
7. Parent/Teacher calls out a sight word and student must find the word in the basket.
This is a great way to see what sight words your student knows. Your student will love taking home their adorable Easter basket. Have fun!
Kids love fun Easter sight word games. Give the Cracked Eggs Matching Game a try! Here is what you do:
1. Draw some eggs. I actually found mine here.
2. Write one sight word on each egg, then color it and cut it out. I only made six eggs, but you can do as many as you want!
3. Cut each egg so that it looks like it cracked. Laminate the pieces so that you can use this game in the future.
4. Mix up all the cracked pieces for your student.
5. Have your student match the pieces back together. When they find a match, have them read the sight word to you.
Have a great time practicing with your student!
I found a fun Easter sight word game on this cute blog called A Special Kind of Class. It is great for sight word practice. This is how you play:
1. Click here and print off the Little Bunny Sight Word Game.
2. Cut out all of the cards, including the chocolate bunny.
3. Lay out all of the cards with the words facing up.
4. Hide the chocolate bunny under one of the cards.
5. Students repeat this poem when they choose can egg:
Little bunny, little bunny,
Please stop being so funny!
Are you hiding behind the "sight word" egg?
6. When student picks the egg, they must read the sight word on the card in order to look under it and see if the bunny is there.
7. If the student doesn't find the chocolate bunny, they take the card and continue playing.
8. The person who finds the chocolate bunny in the end wins.
9. To make this a little more fun, give the winner a real chocolate bunny.
Have fun with this cute game!
Have you ever heard of the game Spot It? It is one of those speed games that keeps you on your toes. On The Art of Teaching blog they made Spot It into a sight word game. This is how you play:
1. Print off a deck of Easter Spot It cards here.
2. Give each player an Easter Spot It card. The rest of the cards go in a pile in the middle.
3. Each player looks at their card trying to find a word that matches one of the words on the card in the middle.
4. Once a player finds a word on their card that matches one of the words on the card in the middle, the student reads the word and takes that card.
5. Then there is a new card on top and players begin looking for another match.
6. The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.
Kids will love this game because it involves both reading and competition!
A fun way to practice sight words with your student is to write them in sand. You can use the sand on the playground or your classroom sandbox or even craft sand. You could try writing sight words in the sand a few different ways:
#1: Teacher/Parent writes sight words in the sand (with their finger or a stick) and then the student reads the words.
#2: Teacher/Parent says a sight word and then the student writes the word in the sand with their finger or a stick.
#3: Teacher/Parent hides each letter (written on cardboard or something similar) in the sand and says a sight word. Then the student must find the letters that make the word.
#4: Teacher/Parent hides sight words in the sand (written on cardboard or something similar). Teacher/Parent then says a sight word and the student must find it in the sand.
This activity is great for reading and spelling sight words. Your student will love playing in the sand!
Most kids love hands on activities. A great way to practice sight words is to write them in play dough.You could do this a few different ways:
OPTION #1: Teacher/Parent forms letters out of play dough to make different sight words and then the student reads the words.
OPTION #2: Teacher/Parent flattens play dough and writes sight words in dough with a pencil. Then student reads the words.
OPTION #3: Teacher/Parent says a sight word and then the student forms letters out of play dough to make that sight word.
OPTION #4: Teacher/Parent says a sight word and the student flattens the play dough and writes the word in the dough with a pencil.
OPTION #5: Teacher/Parent prints off each sight word in large font on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper and laminates them. Then teacher/parent holds up one of the papers, student reads the word outloud and traces it using play dough.
This activity is great for reading and spelling sight words. You could also try using letter cookie cutters and spring colored play dough to make it a little more fun!
