My daughter had her friend over and I thought about incorporating some fun with learning. I had picked up a few packages of balloons at a yard sale and decided to turn the balloons into a sight word game.
I simply blew up a few balloons, wrote sight words on them and let the girls out in the yard to find the balloons. But first, I wrote the sight words on a piece of paper that I used to call out to the girls. I had 2 of each word written on the balloons so that both girls could find the same word. It was a little bit of a race too. Once they found the balloon with the correct sight word they had to say the word and then they could pop the balloon. Once the balloons were popped I called out the next sight word and the game went on. This game helped the girls be able to recognize the sight word simply by me calling out the word.
My daughter was having a hard time popping the balloon by sitting on it so she got creative and used a tree branch!!
Learning truly can be fun!
For more fun sight word ideas, check out my sight words Pinterest board.
This is a genius idea to teach sight words. I can totally see this as a fun summer activity with water balloons.
ReplyDeleteHi Melissa! Yes, water balloons would work great!!
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