KSP Crafty Ideas: Super ways to make learning spellings fun and interactive

With schools back on, the learning begins again. While some kids may struggle with spellings or learning new words. These interactive ways will make learning spelling so much easier and a lot more fun. It’s simple, innovative and easy to put to use. It’s all about making it interactive.

1. Playdough/ Pipe cleaner: Use playdough with the kids to sculpt letters or pipe cleaners to bend and form alphabets. A fun way to get kids to form words.

2. Finger Paint: Get messy! Kids can write out words with their finger dipped in paint.

3. Type It: For those kids who love being on the ipad or laptop, parents get them to type different words on Word or Paint.

4. Trace: This one is fun! Either you or the kids can trace the alphabets on the palm or the back and guess the word.

5. Alphabet Blocks: Try the old method of using alphabet blocks to help kids practice spellings.

6. Lego Word: Using tape write the alphabets and stick it on the lego blocks. Jumble them up and then call out a word you want the kids to spell. They will look for the letters and build a tower to form the right word.

7. Markers & Coffee Filters: Using a marker, make the kids write spelling on the coffee filter. Once done, they can create their work into art by spraying water.

8. Hidden Words: Make the kids write spelling on a white piece of paper with a white crayon. Once all words have been written use watercolors and paint to make hidden words appear.

9. Print Words: Use letter cutouts from magazines and newspapers to practice spellings.

10. Cereal Words: Use fruit loops or cheerios to form words.

11. Scrabble Pieces: Use scrabble letter tiles to create words.

12. Sizes: Make the kids write spelling in 3 different sizes- Small, Medium and Big.

13. Roll and Spell: The sides of the dice will be different colors. Roll the dice and depending on the number, use the color to write a word. For eg: If the number 1 is the color blue, then write the word with blue.

14. White Board: Write a word with different spellings and let your kids circle the right one.

15. Search and Circle: Call out a word and let your child find it in a newspaper and circle it.

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