With school being closed for the remainder of the year, I am trying to find even more fun ways to get learning into our day without making my daughter feel overworked. We have recently begun working on sight words. So to get our practice in, I decided to come up with some fun ways to review them with her. This easy sight word practice can be adapted to whatever your kids are interested in and provide tons of fun learning opportunities.

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My sister and I are huge Harry Potter fans, and we decided to make a flying keys mobile for a friend of ours that was having a baby. So my sister bought little dragonfly wings like these for us to use. She offered me the leftover wings, knowing I would find some way to use them. I decided to attach them to our sight word cards with a little sticky tack, and create “Sight Word Fairies”.

To start with, I printed out these flash cards for the first 100 sight words on the Fry Sight Words List. I cut them out and put them in a little bag. I have started taking them out a dozen at a time and focusing on those.

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Sight Word Fairy Hunt

I started with some of the sight words that I was pretty sure my daughter already knew and recognized. I hid them throughout our living room and encouraged her to find them. In order to “capture” them, she had to read them correctly. If she read one incorrectly, it flew away and she had to find it again. She had so much fun finding them and capturing them, that we have played this game over and over.

Sight Word Bug Swat

My daughter is going through a bug thing right now, so the next day we pretended that they were “sight word bugs” and she had to swat them with a fly swatter. I laid them on the ground and encouraged her to swat the correct word as I called them out to her. On another day, we were playing with her dolls and we pretended that she had to protect her baby from the “bugs”. As they got closer to her and her baby, she had to call them out and swat them before they reached them. She had a blast “protecting” her baby doll.

Tons of Sight Word Games

This simple idea can be changed around to suit whatever your child is interested in at the moment. We have also been inspired recently by the show “Bluey” and their fairy hunt episode, as well as adventures in the Magic Tree House books, and even Chewbacca chasing off the Porgs from Star Wars. Each of these interests gave me a starting off point to include a little sight word review in our day. This activity doesn’t have to take a long time, and it can be done any time of the day. With all the different ways that we can use these little winged cards, she has yet to get bored with practicing sight words.

Conquering Sight Words

After we have done this several times with the same words, she starts to master them. Once she has “conquered” a certain word, we put it into  a “Word Treasure Chest”. Then I remove the wings and add them to a new flashcard. This has allowed her to see how many words she has already conquered and how far she has come. Together, we will come up with a prize or celebration for when she has conquered all of the words.

This easy sight word activity is so adaptable and fun that kids will be asking to practice! Check out my printable sight word flashcards over in the Babies to Bookworms shop to get started!

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