These spelling activities are a great way to spice up your spelling lessons. Spelling is just one of those things that you need to learn in life, but it doesn’t have to be boring. Weekly lists and worksheets can get tedious after awhile, so why not add in some movement and activity to make it a bit more fun. Here are 18 of our favorite hands-on spelling activities that we use to liven up our spelling lessons and lists.
1. Jump On It Spelling
This is one of our favorites and we have been doing it ever since the big kid in these pictures started spelling and reading. He is now 10 and still enjoys this activity. Write each letter of the alphabet on a 4×6 blank index card. Spread all 26 of the cards out on the floor. Call out one of your child’s spelling words and have them jump, or hop, or skip to each of the letters as they spell the word. If having all of the cards out is too overwhelming for a younger child, just spread out 10 or so and call out words that they can spell with the 10 letters. Slowly add in letters as they become more confident. This is a great activity to do with various ages; I included my preschooler by having her jump to the letters I called out to help her with letter recognition and I included my Kindergartener by saying a letter sound and she would have to jump to that letter.
2. Lace & Spell
For this activity we use our Lace-a-Word Beads from Lakeshore Learning, but you can use any letter beads and string. This also helps develop fine motor skills and hand/eye coordination. You can also use these beads with younger kids to string up the alphabet in order. My kids enjoy making necklaces with all of their spelling words on one string.
3. Window Spelling
Have your kids write their spelling words on a window. My kids get a kick out of this one – not sure what it is about writing on the window, but they love it and get super excited to do it. We use Crayola Window Crayons for this activity.
4. Sensory Tray
Layer a cookie sheet with salt, sugar, flour, shaving cream, pudding, whipped cream, or any other fun goop you can think of and have your child write their spelling words with their finger in the goop.
5. Letter Hunt
6. Chalk on the Driveway
7. Spell with Stamps
8. Type It
9. Hide & Seek Spelling
10. Colored Glue
11. Spell with Motion
12. Aqua Doodle
13. Lego Spelling
14. Spell with Stickers
15. Trace on Back
16. Clothesline Spelling
Draw a little shirt pattern and use it to make little shirts out of colored cardstock. Write a letter on each shirt (make a couple for each letter). Hang a piece of string or yarn between two chairs and have your child spell their words on the clothesline. Or to make it easier on you, just write the letters on index cards.
17. Playdough Spelling
18. Manipulatives
What kind of spelling activities do you do to make spelling more fun?
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I’ve just pinned this and will be trying some of these ideas. Thank you.
Those are some great ideas! I plan to use Jump On Spelling this next week. My daughter will just love that!
~Lori
These are great!! I have pinned this and will definitely be using a lot of these with my daughter!! Thanks for sharing! ~Lori
These are amazing ideas! My kids are never going to hate spelling lists! They’ll love them.
Wonderful post!! I will be back to see it again. Your post was really popular at Share It Saturday & I’ll be featuring it tomorrow!
This is a great tactile lesson and many of these activities could be modified for other school subjects. I am stopping by from Create With Joy and am enjoying your site. I hope you’ll consider sharing this with my readers by linking it to my “look! what we did” month long link-up. -Savannah http://www.hammocktracks.com/buttons/
These are great ideas! Thanks for the post!
WOW! Those are GREAT ideas! Thank you for linking up with Ultimate Resources – I have tried some of these – but not all of them!
Wow, these are brilliant! I wish I was homeschooling again! I had not discovered the internet or blogging or anything when my kids were little and we were homeschooling. I rarely went on the computer back then. I had no idea what I was missing, lol!!
Thanks so much for linking up to “Making Your Home Sing Monday” today! 🙂
So many great ideas. I have window crayons, but the letters are new to me. I’m pinning this post to remember it, too.
Great ideas…I’ll be sharing them on my blog.
One of my Easter egg activities is to write letters on those plastic eggs and use them for your spelling words.
Kerry
http://HowToHomeschoolMyChild.com/blog
I’m bookmarking this for future use. I love your ideas. I’m going to incorporate the tracing on back one today. I wonder if writing on the mirror will work with those crayons or dry erase? That would help our daughter to watch herself sound out the words as she spells them.
We use SpellingCity.com a lot. Our young daughter loves it. And for our older kids, we make our own lists from their science and math vocabulary. Playing the fun games on SpellingCity, like Match It Sentences, has helped their comprehension in these subjects. And their improved test scores are proof of this. 🙂
Thank you for this blog post! It’s going to come in handy for us.
My daughter Rachel HATES spelling words, even though she’s a fantastic reader. I LOVE these ideas, and will be trying the window marker idea soon!
Thank you so much for sharing these great ideas! Can’t wait to try them!
Thanks for these great ideas! We did playdoh spelling today and it was a hit!
Great ideas! Sending along to my sister to use with my very smart 3 year old niece.