Rhymes for kids are big in our family. Rhyming helps my boys notice patterns in the way words sound – an important pre-reading skill – and, as a BIG bonus, they’re one of the easiest ways to keep them entertained when we’re waiting in doctors’ offices, at restaurants, etc. One of our favorite rhymes for kids is this…
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed is one of my family’s all time favorite rhymes for kids. It’s been my secret weapon when I needed a quick distraction in doctors’ waiting rooms, airplanes, restaurants… you name it. This set of free printable Five Little Monkeys finger puppets is an easy and fun way to bring the classic rhyme…
Are you looking for a fun way to help kids learn about shapes? After doing a contact paper shape sort and shape hunt a few weeks ago, the kids and I were excited to try this new hands-on shape game for kids. It’s easy to prep and can quickly be tweaked to work with younger or older kids. For more…
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Create duplicate versions of the same game using differentiated word lists. One group of students can practice 18 decodable short A words while another group of children works on the same activity but focuses on harder words.
You can even EDIT THE DIRECTIONS!
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‘Tis the season for all things outdoors. To keep my 4 year-old daughter, A, engaged during long hikes and jaunts on the beach, I’ve loaded our activity bin with several easy outdoor scavenger hunts. {There is something about the thrill of the hunt that never fails to motivate my 4 year old.} For more fun ideas,…
This LEGO game is a simple way to help kids learn important direction words including {in front, on top, behind, left and right}. This easy prep, fun-to-play partner LEGO game uses one of kids’ favorite toys to do just that: LEGOS!! Just dig out a divider and a few of your child’s blocks and you’re ready to play. For more…
This fun, hands-on sight word game helps kids memorize common words so that they can increase their reading fluency. This sight word game is easy to set up and great for building a new reader’s confidence. It’s the perfect complement to our super popular EDITABLE Sight Word Games. Getting Ready Before my son could play, I needed to…
This activity is perfect for developing fine motor skills. This salt writing project was a creative and fun fine motor skills activity perfect for building the hand muscles my boys will use later when they’re writing. I was excited to play it again at home. For more preschool fun, try our Ultimate Preschool Activity Pack! To…
These Word Family Spiders are cute AND educational! If you follow me on Playdough to Plato’s new Instagram page, you already know that our family has a serious case of Halloween fever. And I love it. So I decided to overcome my arachnophobia and pull together a low-prep, spider word family activity for my oldest son,…
My boys have been on a LEGO kick the last few weeks. The other day, as I watched them play, an idea popped into my mind: in addition to building THINGS with this favorite toy, they could also build WORDS. Later that evening, I pulled out their box of Duplos {the extra large size gave me…
Whenever I asked my kindergarten or second grade students to name their favorite part of the day, “recess” always seemed to be #1 on their list. They loved playing, talking and moving with their friends. So it’s no surprise that their favorite reading activity was usually “Read Around the Room”- an activity your family will…
Looking for a fun, hands-on way to teach kids how to break words into syllables?! In this activity, children tap their hand, then elbow and shoulder as they break a word into parts – an important skill that helps them get ready for reading later. The game is particularly effective because children are using different parts of…
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We are almost halfway through October and that means Halloween is just around the corner! It’s the perfect time to overcome my arachnophobia and share a free printable spider game with all of you. This playful sort is a fun-filled way to help children learn word families. Scroll below to grab your freebie and then…
Learning word families is a fast way to help children recognize a lot of new words quickly because they are groups of words that share the same sound and spelling. By learning the ending {-og} for instance, your child quickly understands how to read and write {dog, log, frog, fog}. This fun, hands-on word family game will have…
One of the best ways to help your child learn and remember sight words is to play a sight word game. One day, as I watched my boys eagerly race two Matchbox cars at a time down their track, I was struck with an idea: With one simple twist, their playful competition would become a motivating…
This fun sight word game was inspired by one of my kindergarteners favorite games called Beetle. But since my stomach turns at the mere mention of anything creepy crawly, I decided to give it a little twist and name it “Roll a Sight Word Alien” instead. Looking for more sight word fun? Be sure to check out…
Sight word games are one of the best way to keep your child motivated to learn more sight words! Ask a young child what his favorite part of the school day is and he is likely to say, “recess” so this sight word game is inspired by a popular playground activity: soccer. It’s addictively fun…
When a first grader I tutor was struggling to memorize sight words a little while back, I made it my personal mission to design several entertaining sight word games that were both entertaining AND effective. Hands down, one of her favorite activities from the bunch was this high energy die game I call “Climb to…
This easy cup hunt game is a simple and entertaining way to teach children how to recognize alphabet letters. (It can easily be changed to work on sight words, numbers and math facts too.) Try it out, then become a VIP Plato Pack member so you can get all of the tools, strategies and support…
Guest post by In Lieu of Preschool. Letter of the day hands stamps are a simple and fun way to get your child interacting with the alphabet! And for more preschool fun, check out this awesome Ultimate Preschool Activity Pack! After our letter lessons are finished for the day, I’ve begun stamping my two preschool-aged…
With three kids who are 4 and under in our house, we play ABC games nearly every day. There are so many fun ways to practice letter names and sounds and Alphabet Ball is one of our favorites. It’s a low prep, active way to help kids practice the ABCs. Want more ABC fun? Check out our best-selling…
Looking for a fun way to practice word families?! This is one of our all time favorites! Children have a blast sounding out and writing words as they count down from 10 to Takeoff. Word Rocket is the perfect complement to our Editable Word Work Games where you can practice any words under the sun!…
Name games are the perfect way to help your child master one of their favorite words – their name! Since there is no word quite as special to a child as her own name, it’s no wonder that many teachers (including me) use a child’s name to introduce the concept of what a letter is,…
