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100 Fun Sight Words Activities To Help Your Kids Read Faster

Learning sight words is an essential reading skill and it doesn’t have to be learned through boring repetition. Let’s have some fun with sight words through sight word activities, sight word games, sight word worksheets and other ways to practice sight words that will have preschoolers, Kindergartners, 1st and 2nd graders playing with sight words!

Let’s play some fun sight word activities!

How to Teach Sight Words

We have found 100 sight words activities that can be really helpful for kids learning to read in a creative way. Learning sight words helps kids learn to read faster by being able to identify frequently used words without having to sound them out.

Whether you are using these sight word practice activities in the classroom, homeschool or at home for reading practice, they are sure to speed learning and entice giggles.

What is a Sight Word?

A sight word is any word that is recognized instantly and effortlessly, by sight, whether it is spelled regularly or irregularly.
–Ohio Education, Teaching Sight Words According to Science

Why are Sight Word Activities So Important?

Sight word vocabulary is NOT based on visual memory…visual skills!
-Dr. David Kilpatrick, Plain Talk About Learning Conference 2018

Best Sight Words Activities for reading skills

We have put together over 100 sight words activities for new readers that your young kids will love because they are so much fun, they don’t feel like learning!

That means the more play kids can have with sight words, the more sight word skills they will pick up. That is why we have found fun sight word activities for:

Holiday sight word activities
Activities with sight words
Free sight word printables
Dolch printable worksheets
Sight word games
Sight word apps
Sight word sensory activities
Sight word lists
Favorite products for sight word learning

Let’s have some sight word fun!

Holiday Sight Words Activities & Games

Halloween Sight Word Games & Activities

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Halloween Sight Words

Try this Halloween sight word game for a fun way to learn and celebrate Halloween with fun Halloween sight words.

2. Halloween Play On Words

Celebrate Halloween with more sight words! You’ll love these free printable Halloween sight word games. All you need is markers, Lego miniatures, or pumpkin seeds.

Let’s play a sight word game for Day of the Dead!

Day of the Dead Sight Word Activities

3. Day of the Dead Sight Word Worksheet

Our Day of the Dead vocabulary worksheets teach sight words in a fun and festive way!

Fall Sight Word Worksheets & Games

3. Fall Sight Word Worksheet

Celebrate fall and learn with this free fall sight words worksheet. It is a fun game that requires two students to take turns rolling a die, find the number, and then read each sight word. Keep up with the points by coloring or stamping the different circles. Whoever has the most circles wins!

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Sight Word Smash

Making learning reading fun by playing this super fun (and messy) sight word smash game! Hide dollops of shaving cream underneath the laminated pumpkins and when you call out a work let them smash the pumpkin! You could make this more fun and little more sweet and use whipped cream as well.

Valentines Sight Word Worksheets

5. Valentine’s Day Sight Word Find Worksheet

Looking for some Valentine’s Day worksheets? These preprimer and Kindergarten Valentine’s Day Sight Word Find Worksheets are perfect! Trace each word and stamp each heart with the correct sight word.

St Patricks Day Sight Word Activities

6. St. Patrick’s Day Words

These flashcards are a great way to learn St. Patrick’s Day words as well as other sight words. Each sight word flashcard has a picture of the word on it which helps reinforce each Dolch word.

Easter Sight Word Games

7. Easter Jelly Bean Numbers & Sight Words

Have extra plastic eggs from Easter? Perfect! You can use them, along with these printables, to teach your child numbers as well as sight words. Your child will love these festive Easter sight word pages.

Thanksgiving Sight Word Activities

8. Thanksgiving Sight Words

Looking for some educational Thanksgiving activities? This Feed the Turkey sight words is a great way to keep your kids busy and a great way to teach Thanksgiving sight words.

Christmas Sight Word Flash Cards

9. Free Printable Christmas Sight Words

How cute! I love these Elf on the Shelf flash cards. These free printable Christmas Sight words are perfect for the holidays and each card has a picture to help reinforce the sight word.

Sight Words Activities To Do Outside

Sight Word Games with Balls

10. Ball Sight Word Game

With this ball sight word game, you can write sight words on a large beach ball and practice by tossing the ball and reading a word. Not only will your child be learning about sight words, but it is a fun kinetic game as well.

11. Sight Word Games For Kids

Using balls to learn sight words is a fun and cheap way to not only learn, but get your child moving. This is a perfect sight words game for the spring and summer!

12. Sight Word Ball Games

Another fun ball game gets kiddos active with a sight word basketball game. Dribble the ball around the different sight words on the ground. It’s a fun way to learn and move!

Sight Word Activities Inspired by Super Heros

13. Superhero Sight Words

Be super with these superhero sight words! Dress up in your superhero Halloween costumes and then choose active Dolch sight words like: look, jump, away, down, etc. Match them up and do them!

Sight Word Scavenger Hunt

14. Sight Words Treasure Hunt

Who doesn’t love a treasure hunt? Make learning sight words fun by dressing up like a pirate and using a map to find the treasure! The treasure of course are small cups of deliciously wrapped chocolate! This Sight Word treasure hunt is also a great way to teach your child about map reading and getting them outside.

15. Drive To The Sight Word

Since most of us have been spending quite a bit of time at home, here are some great sight word games at home. The best part is, you get out of the house and into the sun! Drive a remote controlled car to each of the sight words. Call out the words and let them zig and zag their toy cars to it!

16. Summer Sight Words

Your kids will love this summer sight words game: Sight Word Stomp! This is a perfect game for preschoolers and kindergarten kids. It not only teaches phonics and sight words, but also gets your kids moving around!

17. Sight Word Hose Design

Use your garden hose to allow your child to design a shape around the sight words you have written on the sidewalk. You can also loop the house around different words and call out the words and have your child find which loop it is in as well.

DIY Sight Words Games with Toys

18. Sight Words For 2 Year Olds

Make sight word cards and pair them with small toys to make sentences. These are perfect sight words for 2 year olds and up.

19. Drag Racing Games

Once they have started to master the words, have them play this fun drag race game. You label each car with a different sight word and then you drag race them down the ramp! it is a fun way to learn.

20. Sight Words Flash Cards

Work on math words like same, less and than. This comes with a free printable. Mix up the sight words flash cards with different objects for a fun twist.

21. Erudition

This fun game called Erudition is an easy way to teach sight words. It has over 280 different sight words to learn and is just like a regular board game.

22. Car And Truck Sight Word Games

Race around to learn to read! This game is so much fun and one of my favorites in our 100 sight word activity list. This is a hands-on sight word game that has you driving to each word and trying to find all the different sight words.

23. Dinosaur Sight Word Game

Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs are the best! Well, your little one will love playing with dinosaurs in this sight word game. Use different sight words to describe different dinosaurs and then let them find the different dinosaurs that are described by that word.

24. Word Building Activity

This cute sight word activity is super cute, but does require some work. Make your own sight word sheets. The top should have the words and the bottom half should have 3 pictures. You will then use small toys like toy animals, cars, or Legos to put on the correct image.

25. Magnetic Sight Words

You can make your own magnetic board with truck magnets for fun and easy sight word learning! These truck magnets are an easy way to play and learn at the same time.

26. Sight Word Snacks

Make snacks! Use alphabet cookie cutters to bake cookies that your kids can use to spell out sight words. You could also use these cookie cutters to make your kid a super educational lunch or breakfast too. Sandwiches and pancakes are easy to cut and who says you shouldn’t play with your food?

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Bananagrams Sight Words

Have some early literacy fun with this neat sight word activity involving Bananagrams. Use the tokens and sort them into different piles and then work on letters and sight words!

Sight Word Printables

These unicorn sight words printables are free and ready to be downloaded!

Printable Sight Word Worksheets

28. Unicorn Sight Word Worksheet

These sight word coloring pages are themed with the cutest unicorn ever!

These rainbow sight words printables are free and ready to be downloaded!

29. Rainbow Words Worksheet

This rainbows sight words worksheet is fun to fill out and then color all the colors of the rainbow!

30. Shark Themed Sight Word Worksheets for Kids

These free printable Shark sight word worksheets are fun everyday or especially fun during Shark Week.

Or check out these adorable Baby Shark sight word worksheets you can download & print.

28. Printable Sight Word Worksheets

With these sight word worksheets you will find 10 pages that include 52 words. These sight word pages include: writing, color by letter, trace the sight words, and find the sight words.

29. Free Printable Sight Word Worksheets

Looking for more romping and roaring worksheets? Here is set 11 of the worksheets. This set includes 6 pages of fun sight words activities and sight work practice. There are even worksheets that let your little one practice their fine motor skills.

30. Color By Sight Word

Learn words and work on motor skills at the same time with these printables! Learn sight words while coloring each word and then use each sheet as a card so your little one can practice over and over again!

31. Word Evaluation

Use these printables and cards to do a sight word evaluation for your child. These free printable kindergarten sight words is a great way to see where your child is at reading wise and what they still need to learn.

32. You Can Read Sight Words

Check out these printables and laminate them for repeated practice learning sight words. Connect the dot, make a sight word puzzle, mixed up fonts, and more! These sight word activities are perfect for making learning fun.

33. Sight Words Writing Worksheets

Learn sight words by writing and stamping out the letters to spell out each word. It is a fun twist on traditional learning and if you want to reuse the pages then laminate them and use plastic letters to spell out each word rather than stamping them out.

34. Free Sight Word Worksheets

These first grade sight word worksheets are a perfect way to teach your child to recognize words and to read. There are so many different sight word worksheets available: playdough mats, stamp sheets, word trace, color by sight word pages, and more!

35. Free Printable Kindergarten Sight Words

While this is technically a sight words game, it is a free printable. This free printable kindergarten sight words game comes with everything you need, well almost. It comes with cards, directions, a spinner, and a board. All you need is little Lego tokens and a pin to hold the spinner together.

36. Free Color By Sight Word Worksheets

These free color by sight word worksheets covers 52 different sight words. Each page is a color by letter page and has the guide at the bottom. So, these worksheets also double as a color learning page too. How fun!

37. Tracing Sight Words Printables

What better way to learn new words than tracing sight words? This sight word trace and find is a fun printable that teaches 52 different sight words on 8 different work sheets. Make sure you have a way to mark the dots may it be with coloring utensils, dot markers, or transparent bingo chips.

38. Printable Sight Words For Toddlers

Looking for sight words printables for your toddler or preschooler? Look no further! Here are 8 pages of coloring, marking, tracing, and more to making teaching sight words easy!

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Printable Sight Word Worksheets For Kids

Looking for printable sight word worksheets for kids? Here are worksheets for preprimer, primer, first grade, second grade, and third grade. They are winter-themed and have snowflakes to dot and color.

40. Spin And Write Sight Words

This sight words printable is super cute and a lot of fun, and not only teaches sight words, but colors as well, and it works on fine motor skills. All you need spin and write sight words game is some crayons and a paper clip and you’re ready to go.

41. Free Printable Sight Words Game

This free dodecahedron sight word game is perfect for kids in Pre-K and Kindergarten. Once you print off the 8 pages and put the dodecahedrons together your kids will roll the dice and race the sight word cars to the end of the finish line!

Printable Sight Word Flash Cards

42. Farm Themed Sight Word Cards

Print off these farm themed sight words cards to help your child memorize sight words. Each card is farm themed and has a picture on it to help reinforce each word.

Printable Sight Word Books

43. Free Printable Sight Word Books

Check out these early reading printable sight word books. They are perfect for Kindergarten kids! There are 2 different books with so many different sight word worksheets to do!

44. More Free Printable Sight Word Books

Looking for free printable Kindergarten sight words? This super cute sight word easy reader is perfect! It has practice sheets, matching games, reading practice and more.

Dolch Sight Words Worksheets

Printable Dolch Sight Words Worksheet

45. Printable Dolch Site Words

There first grade sight words worksheets are perfect to learn 10 sight words. These Dolch Sight Words Worksheets include: matching, instructions on how to use each sight word, coloring pages, flash cards, and handwriting practice.

Printable Dolch Sight Word Flash Cards

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Dolch Sight Word Worksheets And Flashcards

Learn 10 more sight words with these Dolch sight word worksheets and flashcards. This set includes 5 different worksheets that not only teaches new words, but also works on fine motor skills as well.

47. Dolch Primer Sight Words

Look how fun! Print off these Dolch Primer Sight Word worksheets, laminate them, and use these sight word worksheets to not only work on fine motor skills by writing the words, and copying the sight words with playdough.

48. Easy Sight Word Worksheets

Check out these free Dolch sight word cards that includes a guide that helps put together a sight word card ring. With these printables you will find 8 cards per page and over 200 Dolch sight words.

49. More Dolch Sight Word Printable Pages

We found even more Dolch sight word worksheets for you to use! These are actually 3rd grade sight word worksheets. The best part is, there are resources provided to help reinforce these sight words as well, beyond just the worksheets.

50. Dolch Word Flashcards

Flashcards are such a great way to learn sight words. Plus, if you laminate them you can use them over and over without them getting worn out. Put them on a ring or keep them in a deck, flashcards are a fun and easy way to learn sight words.

51. Dolch Sight Word Printables

Take a gander at these sight word worksheets! They are a hit! Many people enjoy these pre-primer reading help sheets and cards. If your child struggles learning words and letters, these worksheets are perfect!

52. Dolch Primer Sight Words

These Dolch primer sight words will teach your child 52 different sight words and has wall cards that start with each letter of the alphabet. There are 10 pages in all.

53. Dolch Sight Word Printable Worksheets

Here is week 13 of this Dolch sight words set. It has 8 more pages of words for your child to learn to recognize. This sight words set is perfect for preschoolers through first graders.

54. First 100 Sight Words

Learning about phonics is important when teaching your child to read, however, there are times those rules do not apply and that is where sight words come into play. Here are worksheets and flashcards with the first 100 sight words on them! Perfect for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and even first graders.

55. 2nd Grade Sight Words Worksheets

Need sight word worksheets for older students? These Dolch sight words grade 2 worksheets are perfect for teaching older kids. This pack comes with flash cards, handwriting practice, matching sight word games, instructions, and even coloring pages!

56. Free First Grade Sight Words

More sight words for older kids! These free first grade sight word worksheets are a great way to reinforce words and help your child learn to read. Help them get the head start they need!

57. Dolch Pre-Primer Words Worksheets

These Dolch pre-primer words worksheets are perfect for smaller kids like preschoolers. These can even be used as sight words for toddlers as well. There are different worksheets that include fine motor skill practice.

58. Dolch Sight Words Free Worksheets

We have found another pre-primer sight words set that is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. These Dolch sight words free worksheets are also perfect for practicing fine motor skills!

59. Dolch Sight Words Worksheets For Primer And First Grade

Here are some free sight word worksheets for kindergarten students and 1st grade sight words worksheets. They not only provide word reinforcing and are a great way to help your child read, but also provide fine motor skills, and coloring making these worksheets a lot of fun.

60. Sight Words List

Looking for a complete sight words list? We have found complete Dolch sight words list for: pre-primer, primer, first grade, second grade, third grade, and nouns. That is all 220 words and nearly 100 nouns! The best part is, these Dolch sight words lists are printable.

61. Dolch Preprimer Coloring Bookmarks

Print off these Dolch preprimer coloring bookmarks and have fun coloring while learning. Each bookmark has a different Dolch sight word on it that your child can color anyway they want. There are 40 sight words so you can pick and choose a sight word everyday.

62. Printable Sight Words List

Check out this printable sight words list from both Dolch and Fry. Each list is broken up by each letter of the alphabet and covers 200 sight words (or high frequency words) from each word list.

63. Free Printable Kindergarten Sight Word Worksheets

Get the crayons and scissors ready for these free printable Kindergarten sight word worksheets! This sight word set has coloring sheets, matching games, flash cards, and more!

Free Sight Word Games

Easy Sight Word Games

64. Sight Word Activities For Kindergarten Kids

Looking for more ways to teach sight words for toddlers, preschool sight words, and kindergarteners? Here are 20 fun ways to teach sight words.

65. Sight Word Snowball Toss Game

This is perfect if it is cold outside (with no snow), or even in the summer when it is hot. Plus, you can pair it up with the book Snowball Fight! By Jimmy Fallon. Make your own sight word snowball toss game using tape and socks!

66. Sight Word Puzzles

Make learning sight word learning fun with this sight word puzzle. These puzzle words can also double as a sight word craft as it does require the puzzle pieces to be painted and the letters written on each piece.

67. School Bus Game

Learn your numbers, vowels, and sight words using this super cute school bus printable and sticky notes. It is simple and fun. Learn words, make sentences, and learn to read!

68. Pebbles Phonics Learning

Learn sight words using pebbles and then use the words on these pebbles to make sentences. This is an easy learning game that you can use over and over again!

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Sight Words Rhyming Game

I love resources that provide multiple lessons in one. Learn sight words while rhyming! There are four different levels to play that includes a “Mix it up” game, a sight word matching game, and then a sight word “guess who game”, as well as a blackout rhyming game.

70. Rainbow Roll & Write Sight Words

Work on colors, numbers, spelling, motor skills, and sight words all in one game! This free sight word printable is a fun game where you use dice to see what color you use to color in the letters. I think this is one of the more unique games in our 100 sight words activities list.

71. Minion Sight Words

Does your child love Minions? Mine is obsessed with them! Which is why they loved this Minion sight words game. it’s simple. You create your own minions and letter cups out of Jell-O and pudding cups and let them pick up the cups to spell the words.

72. Fun Ways To Practice Sight Words

Want more fun sight word games? Here is a great list of different sight word games, activities, and crafts that your child will love!

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Sight Word Matching Game

Who doesn’t love matching games? This Sight word matching game will teach your child new Dolch preprimer sight words that will have them ready to read in no time! What a fun way to reinforce words.

74. Hands-On Sight Word Games

Looking for some hands on literacy games? These hands-on sight word games is a great way to learn letters, learn words, learn the syllables of each words, and to learn to spell.

75. Baby Sight Words Game

Sometimes worksheets are too much for toddlers and babies. Sometimes they need something a little easier and a little more stimulating. This sight words game is the perfect thing! Squishing sight words! Each ball has a sight word written on it and then you will use toy hammers, feet, or hands to squish the right word!

76. Guess The Word Game

This game is a clever twist on the classic game Guess Who. This Guess The Word game is a fun way to learn Dolch sight words from pre-primer all the way to the 3rd grade.

77. Spelling Games For Kids

Want fun spelling games for kids? These 12 interactive spelling games are a great way to teach sight words at home. You can download and print all of these fun Word Bump spelling games.

78. Sight Word Games

Are you needing more sight word games for your classroom? Then these fun twist on traditional games are right up your alley! Turn Candyland into a fun word game or this fun Oh No! Sight words game.

79. Sight Word Matching Game

Looking for a sight word game inspired by a popular children’s book? This fun sight word matching game is inspired by The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown.

80. Sight Word Matching

This sight word matching is inspired by If You Give A Pig A Party by Laura Numeroff. You will use party hats in this sight word matching game, and each party has a sight word written on it. Your child will then need to match each sight word. You can make the game a little more challenging by having your child read each word aloud.

81. Sight Word Games For Kids

Bust out your crafting supplies! For these fun sight word games for kids you will need pipe cleaners and beads with letters. Using a sight word list (you can find multiple lists lower), let your child spell out the words with beads and thread them through pipe cleaners. Not only is this a great learning lesson, but it is also a great fine motor skill activity as well.

82. Sight Word Shoot

Nerf guns are the best! I don’t care how old you are, you are never too old to play with nerf guns, which is why I love this sight words game. You tape sight words to cardboard blocks and then have someone call out the sight word. Once your child finds the correct sight word they will shoot the block with their nerf gun!

83. Apple Sight Words Game

This is a cute sight word game that also gets you outside. Print off some apple cards and write sight words on them and hang them on a tree. Call out each sight word and then let your child “pick and apple” from the tree.

84. Sight Words Bottle Cap Games For Kids

Recycle plastic bottle lids with this sight words bottle cap game for kids. All you need is: bottle caps, a black permanent marker, and a sight word list (you can find a few in the printable section of this post). Write the sight word on one side, and point on the other, and when your child picks the right word they get to add up their points to see who wins!

85. Battle Words

This is the coolest game! This sight words game is based on the Sink The Ship game where you have to find the enemies ship and sing them, except you use coordinates to find out which square each word is on. The more you get the more treasure you get!

86. Sight Word Tic Tac Toe

Classic games like Tic Tac Toe are always fun to play. That is why I love this modified version of it. Choose a sight word for your child, and choose one for yourself, and instead of X’s and O’s you will use these sight words on the Tic Tac Toe board.

Fun Sight Word Activities

Sight Word Crafts & Art Projects

87. Sight Words Made Out Of Crayons

Make learning fun by learning sight words with crayons! This is actually super cool an easy! Use stickers on paper to spell out words and then use a white piece of paper over it and color, gently, with crayons to see words appear!

88. Sight Word Tree

This is such a cute fall learning project! Learn sight words by making a sight word tree. Plus, you get to get messy by finger paining leaves! Paint them green, red, orange, gold, and be sure to add words on each leaf and stick them on the branches of your tree.

89. Preschool Sight Words

Are you looking for clever ways to teach your little one preschool sight words? Want to reinforce not only sight words, but letters and numbers as well? Then these hands on literacy games are just what you’re looking for.

90. Hop On Pop Activities For Preschool

This is a cute reading activity that also teaches words using a fun activity. Learn sight words, rhyming words, and enjoy a story! This activity is perfect for preschoolers and kindergarten children.

91. Roll and Read Sight Words

This is such a clever way to teach and recycle! I love when I find new ways to go green. All you need is markers, a toilet paper roll, a wrapping paper roll, and some paper! Then you twist the rolls to make different words and write them down. This roll and read sight words activity is such a cute way to learn new words.

92. Sight Word Activities On The Go

Need peace on a car trip? These sight word activities on the go are perfect! Try out the alphabet scavenger hunt and sight word hunt to not only learn, but to get some quiet too.

93. Rainbow Words

This rainbow words activity are a great way to learn sight words! All you need is construction paper, scissors, a glue stick, markers, and a favorite book you don’t have a problem marking in.

94. Blowing Down Sight Words

Looking for more learning sight words games? This blowing down sight words is perfect! Use party favors on these jumbo cardboard blocks! It is a fun way to not only learn sight words, but letters as well.

95. Hide And Seek Sight Words

Looking for mess free sight word activities? This hide and seek sight words game is a fun way to learn sight words by uncovering them! Move the paint in the plastic baggie and mark off the words when you find them.

96. Eat Your Words Cookies

Your kids will love this sight words activity! This eat your words cookies game is delicious and fun! Spell out sight words using Trader Joe’s Schoolbook Cookies. Once you spell all the words on your list, then munch away on the yummy cookies.

97. Hands-on Reading And Writing Activities

You won’t bee-lieve how fun this reading and writing activity is. I think this is such a cute sight words activity. You have paper bees, each with a word on it, and when you call out the word the player has to swat it with a fly swatter. There is also an alternative to the game where you spell each sight word in the salt using a paintbrush.

98. Roll And Write Game

Looking for another sight words game? This roll and write game is perfect for kindergarten kids and first graders. The one who writes AND reads all the sight words on the paper first wins. Sounds simple, but this game also involves math and team work as well.

99. DIY Sight Word Find Worksheet

These DIY sight word find worksheets are perfect for learning. They work on reinforcing words of course, but this is also very good for problem solving. All you need is some graphing paper.

100. Color By Sight Word Worksheets

This color by sight word worksheet is based around the story The Hungry Caterpillar, the solar system, and some free printable sight word books.

101. Make Your Own Sight Word Puzzles

Looking for an activity to make sight words more exciting? Then you’ll love these sight word puzzles you can make yourself! Print out the sight word flashcards and have your little one color each card different colors, then cut each word into strips and see if your child can put them back together! This is also a fun color learning activity as well.

102. Sight Word Scavenger Hunt

Make learning sight words exciting, by turning it into a sight words scavenger hunt! It doesn’t require a lot of supplies, just markers, Post-It notes, and maybe a prize?

103. Kindergarten Popcorn Words

Turns out learning sight words can be tasty! This Kindergarten popcorn words activity is a delicious way to learn sight words. Print the sight word popcorn cards and then use popcorn to cover the appropriate words. If your child is too little for popcorn you could always use chips, crackers, yogurt melts, or M&M’s.

104. Word Treasure

Learn sight words by going on a treasure hunt! Dig through the sand to find sight word doubloons and fill up the treasure chest! It’s a fun way to not only learn sight words, but also promote pretend play by letting them dress up and pretend to be pirates! Arrr!

105. Word Paint Game

I love paint swatches, they’re so versatile! They can be used for puzzles and learning! Turn these paint swatches into a sight word activity, by lining up the back swatch to the front swatch, both with words and letters written out.

106. Gross Motor Sight Words

Turns out you can teach your kids and keep them busy and entertained at the same time! Using masking tape let them spell out different sight words on the floor, let the trace them with pointers, roll sensory balls across them, and jump and dance around the sight words on the floor.

Sight Word Apps for Kids

Sight Word Online Games

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Sight Words Online Games

Now learning sight words is easy! There are plenty of online games and apps where your child can learn sight words. Learn them playing whack-a-mole, doing mazes, and even spelling with ants.

Sight Word Educational App

108. Fun Sight Word Games For Kindergarten Online Free

Looking for an educational app to teach your child sight words? Look no further, Lola’s ABC Party 2 is a fun way to not only learn letters, but teach them spelling sight words, and even read short sentences, and teaches reading comprehension as well.

Sensory Sight Words Learning Activities

Hands On Spelling Practice

109. Water Bead Spelling Practice

This is one of the cooler 100 sight words activities. It is learning sight words, spelling, and a sensory activity rolled up into 1. Hide letters in a batch of water beads for a fun sight word sensory activity. Once you find the letters take them out to spell out different sight words.

110. Sensory Spelling Cards

Learn sight words using this neat sight words sensory activity. Use cardboard to make sight word flashcards, however, instead of writing them out with markers, write them out using glue and salt.

Hands On Sight Word Practice

111. Digging For Sight Words

Digging for sight words is another fun sensory activity. Use gardening tools to dig up carrots that have sight words on them, and then match them with the coordinating sight word on your activity page! You could also switch out beans for other things like sand, lentils, rice, cereal, etc.

112. Dinosaur Writing Activities For Preschoolers

What better way to learn about sight words than with messy sensory play and dinosaurs! Use a plastic tray and make your own swamp goop and let your child write out their letters and different sight words. But watch out for the dinosaurs lurking nearby!

113. Fizzy Sight Words

Use plastic letters to spell out different sight words and then add science and fun! Add baking soda to each letter and then spray vinegar! It bubbles, fizzes, and you can even mix paint to make colorful bubbles! What a fun sensory sight word activity.

114. Salt Glue Sight Words

Write out sight words using glue and salt! This will create raised and textured words that feel rough to the touch. You can also add paint to them to make them super colorful as well.

Sight Word Lists by Letter of the Alphabet

We have created a big resource of sight word lists by letter of the alphabet and you can find them all here:

Letter A Sight Words
Letter B Sight Words
Letter C Sight Words
Letter D Sight Words
Letter E Sight Words
Letter F Sight Words
Letter G Sight Words
Letter H Sight Words
Letter I Sight Words
Letter J Sight Words
Letter K Sight Words
Letter L Sight Words
Letter M Sight Words
Letter N Sight Words
Letter O Sight Words
Letter P Sight Words
Letter Q Sight Words
Letter R Sight Words
Letter S Sight Words
Letter T Sight Words
Letter U Sight Words
Letter V Sight Words
Letter W Sight Words
Letter X Sight Words
Letter Y Sight Words
Letter Z Sight Words

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Sight Word Activity: Pirate Doubloons Treasure Hunt

Set up a fun sight word activity for kids using simple, DIY pirate gold doubloons hidden to make a treasure hunt in the sand tray! Adapt this for letters of the alphabet for those learning their initial letter sounds, or numbers to create a maths themed focus instead. Hands on, pirate learning fun for all!

With my two eldest girls now able to read, at their own stages, we are making more and more word games to engage them in the often repetitive task of sight word learning. Instead of reading from the cards or lists which can be very boring to do, we are making some hands-on activities to cement the learning in a more exciting way.

“Unless it has been in the hand ..and the body…it cannot be in the brain” (Bev Bos) and we all know that touching, moving and doing an activity is FAR more likely a way for us to remember it than simply watching or listening to it.

What we used:

cardboard

gold paint

black permanent marker pen

Tuff spot/Mixing Tray (these are AWESOME and I really recommend them for sensory play!)

play sand

treasure chest

telescope

pirate costume

I painted a large piece of cardboard with gold paint and left it to dry. Then I used a glass to draw around to create lots of circles for the gold doubloons. Onto these I wrote some of the high frequency sight words found on the KS1 list, the ones which Miss 5 is currently reading or about to be reading in her books, then I cut them all out ready to play. I deliberately included some really similar ones so that they would have to look closely to differentiate them all, e.g. “this, then, there, the”.

Into our Tuff spot tray I tipped a bag of play sand, then stood each gold doubloon word card into it, along with the empty treasure chest for collecting them into.

When they came to play they took it in turns to dress up in the pirate costume and use the telescope to do their searching for treasure!

As the game began I explained that some pirates had hidden their gold doubloons and that we had to look for each one and put them into our chest before they returned! But we can only take the ones that we call out, so be quick and use your telescope to search for each one as I shout it out.

As I called each word, she would search through her telescope (and sometimes without it if she was struggling to find them) and then collect it to go inside her treasure chest. Once we had collected as many as we could find, she showed me what was in her collection and read them back to me again.

Miss 6 loved this game too and was able to complete it more quickly. I gave her the next challenge of trying to put some of the gold doubloon words into a simple sentence, which was fun to try and do together.

Little sister, Miss 3, also wanted to join in and we said “find a word with a S at the beginning” and then we would draw a “S” in the sand so that she could see what shape letter she was looking for. It would be good to make another set of cards for her with the letters on, so that she can start to learn the letter sounds too.

We have made another version of this using numbers which has been great for all stages of maths play and learning, and we will share that here soon!

We love these kind of playful learning activities! See our PLAYFUL LITERACY series here.

See our PLAYFUL MATHS series for more.

And if you enjoyed the sensory nature of this play, we have a whole heap of SENSORY PLAY ideas too!

What they are learning as they play:

Literacy: recognising familiar words by sight, reading unfamiliar words using phonic knowledge, using simple words to build a sentence

Physical: using all of their senses while they play

Creativity: dressing up and taking on a role or character, playing imaginative games

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Scavenger hunts or forest finder

The American game Scavenger Hunt (“scavenger hunt”) is that the participants (it can be both teams and individual players) must find and collect items from a pre-compiled list within a certain time. Points are given for each item found. The one who collects the most of them wins. Or the one who finishes the whole list first. The game was invented by a certain Elsa Maxwell, and became very popular in the 30s of the last century at American parties. Now the most famous game of this genre is the Scavenger Hunt, held between students at the University of Chicago. Her at 1987 founded by Chris Straus. The game is held annually in May and lasts 4 days. During this time, students manage to collect about 300 items. Also, annual games are held in Washington; Northfield, Minnesota and Monroe, New York.

There are different versions of the game - in some you need to photograph all the items on the list, or somehow imagine them creatively. They play this game both in nature (in the forest, in the park, in the yard), and in an apartment or a supermarket. And now computer versions of “Junk Hunting” are also popular (the first version of online hunting was developed in 1992 by Rick Gates to encourage people to explore the resources available on the Internet).

This game is related to other "hunts" (for example, letter hunting - to collect letters of the alphabet, or graffiti hunting - to look for interesting graffiti) and is very similar to our favorite geocaching, only you need to look not for treasure, but just all sorts of interesting things:)

I I have long wanted to play Scavenger Hunt with the children for a walk. And when wonderfully designed search lists - “Forest Finds” - were posted on the kokokoKIDS website, I even became interested myself :). True, we did not go to the forest, but to the Botanical Garden at our university (Vorontsovsky Park or Salgirka Park).

In it we found everything, everything, everything that was planned! Here is the completed sheet:

Both 12-year-old Vita and 4-year-old Katya were very interested! Vitya was more interested in the competitive part - to collect the entire list faster and more fully, and Katya liked to mark everything. She walked around the park with a pen and a piece of paper and took our notes very responsibly :))). And Anton and I liked that the walk had a research goal 🙂

Children on the “hunt” 🙂

The easiest way was to find beautiful flowers - in the Botanical Garden in its "cultural" part there are several beautiful flower beds - a rose garden, an iridarium, a syringarium, an alpine hill. It was even difficult to choose what exactly from this beauty to put in the “find-snack”.

TNU Botanical Garden

Gladioli are twice as tall as Katya 🙂

And here, by the way, is the butterfly we need.

But I chose a simple field flower found by Anton. Among all this garden splendor, it turned out to be the most touching 🙂

We found a great many cones, acorns, anthills and hollow trees a little deeper into the park - further in it are areas of completely “wild” nature.

But there are problems with mushrooms. We are in our second month without rain. Therefore, the only fungus we found is a tree mushroom.

And on the wrought-iron bench near the entrance we saw more mushrooms - they will do instead of fly agaric from the list :)

There are also problems with hedgehogs. But we found something to replace it with - a prickly chestnut skin. She looks a lot like a hedgehog!

Traces of animals were searched for on “unknown paths”. We saw the imprint of a huge paw on the gravel. Katya thinks it's wolf :)

And I found another animal footprint... from a snail 🙂

Here are the snails themselves.

Forest birds are easy to find. Feeders are hung in a pine grove. There are ten of them in it. People actively feed the birds all year round. Therefore, titmouse there are quite tame. Vitya loves to feed them from the palm of his hand. Katya still does not have the patience to stand still. But this time the titmouse didn't take a picture, no matter how hard I tried to catch it in the lens. But a woodpecker suddenly flew to a distant pine. Handsome! And he hollowed a real hollow! Photo, unfortunately, only at high magnification.

Woodpecker next to a hollow

Feeders of all kinds - from a parrot cage, from a speaker box, just boxes. Do you see the titmouse?

Jay flew up

And under the walnut trees in the distance, squirrels frolic. Here one grabbed a nut in her teeth 🙂

Squirrel

But most of all in the park, of course, corroded leaves. Some of them are beautiful!

We looked at the time - the third hour. Time to go home!

Sundial in Vorontsovka

The walk turned out to be very exciting. And after all, we didn’t even go around the entire park! You can see how we later explored the ponds in Vorontsovka and how we arranged our own pond on the windowsill here.

Scavenger hunt

For the 1979 feature film, see Scavenger hunt.

Scavenger hunters cross off an item from their list

A scavenging is a game in which the organizers prepare a list identifying specific items, in which participants aim to collect or complete all the items on the list without usually buying them. ^[1] Participants usually work in small groups, although rules may allow individuals to participate. The goal is to be the first to complete the list, or to complete the most items in that list. In different versions of the game, players take pictures of the listed items or are tasked with completing tasks from the list in the most creative way. A treasure hunt is another name for the game, but it may involve following a series of clues to find items or a single prize in a specific order.

According to game specialist Marcus Montola, the scavenger hunt originated from ancient folk games. ^[2] Gossip columnist Elsa Maxwell popularized scavenger hunts in the United States with a series of exclusive New York parties beginning in the early 1930s. ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] The scavenger hunt among the New York elite was satirized in the 1936 film. My Man Godfrey , where one of the items the society players are trying to collect is "The Forgotten Man", a bum. ^[6]

Examples

Scavenger hunts are regularly conducted at American universities, a notable modern example being the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, founded in 1987. Provo in Utah currently holds the Guinness World Record for hosting the world's largest scavenger hunt since 2079participants. ^[7]

A common Easter game is the egg hunt, where players look for hidden eggs. The scavenger hunt on Halloween is slowly crowding out wallet or life. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Letterboxing is an outdoor treasure hunt that combines elements of orienteering, art and problem solving and dates back to the 1850s. Postal boxers hide small waterproof boxes in public places (such as parks or open moorlands) and spread clues to find the box in printed catalogs, on one of several websites, or by word of mouth. Individual mailboxes usually have a logbook and a stamp.

A Stash in Germany

Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunting game in which participants use a global positioning system (GPS) receiver or other navigation methods to hide and search for containers (so-called "caches" or "caches" ).

Treasure hunt as a group game attributed to socialite Elsa Maxwell. She said ^{[ when? ]} that “In Treasure Hunt… intelligent men were combined with great beauties, glamor with flair. Anything could happen in the course of a night out.” ^[8]

"Chair treasure hunting" is an activity that requires solving a riddle or riddle in some easily portable and widely reproducible format (often illustrated book ^[9] ) and then, using clues, hidden in a story or in a book's graphics, find a real treasure somewhere in the physical world. This type of treasure hunt can take months to solve and can often win big prizes. An early example of the genre is Keith Williams '1979 book Masquerade while the games are still in play, include The Secret and On the Trail of the Golden Owl. An unusual example of an armchair treasure hunt is the book Labyrinth: Solve the World's Hardest Puzzle by Christopher Mason, and the publishers gave a $10,000 prize to the reader who solved and solved the riddle using the clues in the book's illustrations. Ultimately, the prize was divided among the twelve readers who came closest to the solution. However, the contest has been declared invalid. LABYRINTH remains in publication.

In 1956, comedian Ian Murray created and hosted a television variation also known as Treasure Hunt . On this US game show, a pair of contestants answered questions to qualify for a treasure hunt that included a selection of thirty treasure chests that included everything from gag prizes to valuable goods and/or money. The show also offered home viewers a chance to play for treasure when a young guest selected a postcard from a large drum which spun the drum several times to randomize the entries. The show was broadcast daily in the morning and once a week in the evening until 1959 is when TV channels started canceling game shows after the quiz show scandal.

In 2012, the Guinness Book of Records title for "most entrants in a treasure hunt" was held by the London Ambassador Team, which broke the previous record of 308 entrants in London. The 466 participants, all London Ambassadors to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, worked in 93 teams of five, each completing a set of twelve clues hidden on both sides of the River Thames, starting and ending at City Hall, London. A treasure hunt in the form of a spy mission entered the 2012 London World Record. ^[10] A separate points competition was held in which one team won the "treasure".

Internet and media scavenger hunt

Internet scavenger hunt invite participants to visit different websites to find clues and solve puzzles, sometimes for a prize. Participants can win prizes for solving puzzles correctly to win the treasure hunt. The first Internet hunt was developed in 1992 by Rick Gates to encourage people to explore the resources available on the Internet. Several feature films and television series have used online scavenger hunts as viral marketing, including Da Vinci Code and Sci-Fi Channel episode Lost Room . ^[11] ^[12] Actor Misha Collins is currently listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for GISHWHES, the world's largest media scavenger hunt involving 14,580 people in 972 teams from 90 countries.