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Spelling Outside with a Driveway Letter Grid

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I’ve lost count of how many learning games we’ve played on the driveway.

We’ve tried math, sight words, and now we’re going to try spelling outside with a driveway letter grid.

This driveway spelling game is a fun way to learn and a great way to burn some energy after school.

So, grab some sidewalk chalk and let’s get spelling with this fun, active learning game.

Practice spelling outside with a driveway letter grid. Hop, skip, run, and jump your way through all your spelling words.

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Create Your Driveway Letter Grid

Grab your sidewalk chalk and find a large area of concrete.

Write out the alphabet in a large grid. You’ll want it big enough so that your child can stand on an individual letter, but not so big that they can’t easily move from one letter to another.

Tip: Enlist your kids to help create the grid, no need to write it all yourself!

Now that your letter grid is ready, you’re ready to practice spelling outside!

Practice spelling outside with a driveway letter grid. Hop, skip, run, and jump your way through all your spelling words.

Practice Spelling Outside

To play, you  will want to call out one of your child’s spelling words and have them spell the words by jumping to each letter spelling aloud as they go.

If there are 2 letters in a row (i.e. tt or ee), just jump twice on that letter.

Sometimes they may have to do some creative leaping if the letters are too far apart!

More more fun, add additional movements. Hop, skip, run, tiptoe, march, or take giant steps. Move a different way for each spelling word.

It’s so easy to have fun with a driveway letter grid!

Practice spelling outside with a driveway letter grid. Hop, skip, run, and jump your way through all your spelling words.

You may also like on of these fun spelling ideas:

Car Word Tracing

Walk Your Spelling Words

Writing with Paint in a Bag

Salt Tray Spelling Words

Buy the 31 Ways to Practice Spelling Words Ebook

You can purchase a printable form of this book for $7.50 The book is designed to print and turn into a half-page size booklet. It’s perfect to keep at your homework station. Your kids can flip through and find a fun way to practice their spelling words.

The ideas will be convenient and ready to use. No need to turn on the computer every day for ideas.

Most activities require little to no prep time. And, if you make sure you have all the supplies on the Master Supply List (included in the book) on hand, you’ll be able to do any of these fun spelling word ideas any time.

Create Play Dough Spelling Words

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Even though my kids are older now (ages 6 and 8), they still love to play with play dough. I try to have a batch made up all the time so they can play anytime they want.

So, it seemed the logical conclusion to use play dough to practice spelling words. Sensory play and spelling practice all tied into one when you create Play Dough Spelling Words.

Have fun while practicing spelling when you create Play Dough Spelling Words. It's fun and creative way to do spelling homework.

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How to set-up

You need a batch of play dough and a list of spelling words. You can use store-bough play dough or make your own batch.

I love to use the Kool-Aid Dyed Play Dough recipe from Mama Miss. That’s what we used for this batch – using grape Kool-Aid.

The Best-Ever No-Cook Play Dough recipe from The Imagination Tree is another great choice for this activity. It’s easy to make and only takes four minutes.

Or, you can check out my Play Dough Pinterest board for many more fun play dough recipes.

Have fun while practicing spelling when you create Play Dough Spelling Words. It's fun and creative way to do spelling homework.

Create your play dough spelling words

Roll the play dough into snakes and form them into letters.

Make a word, then roll it all back up into a ball.

Make all the words on your list or just a segment of the words.

Add a challenge

Can you figure out a way to make the letters without starting with snakes?

Can you make tiny letters? How about huge letters?

How many words can you make before you run out of play dough?

It’s so easy to combine play with learning, especially when you create Play Dough Spelling Words!

Have fun while practicing spelling when you create Play Dough Spelling Words. It's fun and creative way to do spelling homework.

You may also like one of these fun ways to practice spelling words:

Type Spelling Words on a Computer

Alphabet Bead Spelling Words

Watercolor Resist Spelling Words

LEGO Spelling Word Practice

Buy the 31 Ways to Practice Spelling Words Ebook

You can purchase a printable form of this book for $7.50 The book is designed to print and turn into a half-page size booklet. It’s perfect to keep at your homework station. Your kids can flip through and find a fun way to practice their spelling words.

The ideas will be convenient and ready to use. No need to turn on the computer every day for ideas.

Most activities require little to no prep time. And, if you make sure you have all the supplies on the Master Supply List (included in the book) on hand, you’ll be able to do any of these fun spelling word ideas any time.

Make Words with Alphabet Clothespins

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Practicing spelling words doesn’t always have to require writing them in one way or the other. Today we’re going to give our fine motor skills a workout and use alphabet clothespins to build our words.

This does take a bit of prep time initially, but once you’ve made a set of alphabet clothespins, you can use them for spelling words and sight words all year long.

Use a set of alphabet clothespins to practice spelling words, sight words, and word families. They're easy to make and fun to use.

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How to make your alphabet clothespins

To prep this activity, you need some plain wooden clothespins, Sharpies, and index cards.

Write each letter of the alphabet on your clothespins. You’ll want to include some letters more than once, such as your vowels and popular letters.

Take a peek through the spelling list to make sure you don’t need any letter more than 2 times. If so, you’ll want to include those extra letters.

Also, write each spelling word on an index card.

Tip: Keep some extra clothespins on hand so that it’s easy to make some more alphabet clothespins in case you ever need them.

Use a set of alphabet clothespins to practice spelling words, sight words, and word families. They're easy to make and fun to use.

Use your alphabet clothespins for spelling practice

Have your child choose an index card and make the word by clipping the alphabet clothespins on the index card. Unless you’ve made a whole pile of alphabet clothespins, your child will need to then remove the clothespins before moving on to the next word.

Tip: Store the clothespins and index cards in a bag or basket so that it’s easy to access for your child. I have a feeling they will love practicing their spelling words this way!

Alphabet clothespins are a fun way to practice spelling words and give your fine motor skills a workout at the same time.

Use a set of alphabet clothespins to practice spelling words, sight words, and word families. They're easy to make and fun to use.

You may also like one of these fun spelling ideas:

Letter Stamps and Play Dough

Pipe Cleaner Words

Pin Prick Words

Make Words with Dry Beans

Buy the 31 Ways to Practice Spelling Words Ebook

You can purchase a printable form of this book for $7.50 The book is designed to print and turn into a half-page size booklet. It’s perfect to keep at your homework station. Your kids can flip through and find a fun way to practice their spelling words.

The ideas will be convenient and ready to use. No need to turn on the computer every day for ideas.

Most activities require little to no prep time. And, if you make sure you have all the supplies on the Master Supply List (included in the book) on hand, you’ll be able to do any of these fun spelling word ideas any time.

Make Spelling Fun by Writing with Cotton Swabs

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Sometimes all it takes is switching out the pencil for another tool to make spelling fun.

With today’s idea, we used cotton swabs and paint to write out all our spelling words.

Make spelling fun by putting the pencil aside and grabbing something fun to write with, like this activity to write spelling words with cotton swabs.

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How to set-up:

All you need are some cotton swabs, paint, and paper. The colorful construction paper makes it even more fun, but isn’t necessary.

Put a little bit of paint on a plastic lid or other similar flat container so that it’s easier to dip the cotton swabs.

Grab your list of spelling words and you’re ready to go.

Make spelling fun by putting the pencil aside and grabbing something fun to write with, like this activity to write spelling words with cotton swabs.

It’s time to make spelling fun!

Have your child use the cotton swab and paint to write all their words.

The handwriting won’t be neat and tidy. It will most likely be big and sloppy. But, that’s not the point. Just the act of forming the letters will help them remember their spelling words.

Let them have fun! If your child wants to get artistic, let them.

If they want to make big block letters, let them.

And if they want to make it swirly and colorful, let them.

The more fun it is, the more willing your kids will be to practice their spelling words.

The next time that spelling list comes home, make spelling fun by putting the pencil aside and grabbing the cotton swabs and paint instead.

You may also like one of these ways to make spelling fun:

Fun Spelling Practice with Dry Beans

Watercolor Resist Spelling Words

Make Spelling Words with Letter Stamps

Car Word Tracing

Buy the 31 Ways to Practice Spelling Words Ebook

You can purchase a printable form of this book for $7.50 The book is designed to print and turn into a half-page size booklet. It’s perfect to keep at your homework station. Your kids can flip through and find a fun way to practice their spelling words.

The ideas will be convenient and ready to use. No need to turn on the computer every day for ideas.

Most activities require little to no prep time. And, if you make sure you have all the supplies on the Master Supply List (included in the book) on hand, you’ll be able to do any of these fun spelling word ideas any time.

Spelling Word Scramble

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Do you like word scrambles? I did as a kid (and still do now).

That’s why I thought it would be fun to take a list of spelling words and turn it into a fun game. I was hoping that it wouldn’t take forever, and it turns out that a Spelling Word Scramble is super-easy to make. Yay!

Are you ready to make one?

Turn your spelling list into a fun Spelling Word Scramble game. It's a fun way to practice spelling words and turns homework time into game time.

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How to create a Spelling Word Scramble

All you need to do is grab a sheet of paper and your child’s spelling list.

Simply mix up the letters in each of the words and write them down on your sheet of paper.

It seems like it should take a long time, but it really doesn’t. It took me around 5 minutes to create this list of 10 words.

Don’t make it complicated. Just mix up the letters. Cross off each letter as you write them down to keep track of what letters you’ve used. But, I discovered that four and five letters words are really not difficult to mix up.

Turn your spelling list into a fun Spelling Word Scramble game. It's a fun way to practice spelling words and turns homework time into game time.

It’s Game Time!

Have your child try to unscramble the letters to find their spelling words.

It will give them a chance pay attention to the letters in each word and how they fit together.

This is a fun and a nice change from all the traditional ways to practice spelling words.

Your puzzle-loving kids will enjoy practicing their spelling words with a spelling word scramble.

Turn your spelling list into a fun Spelling Word Scramble game. It's a fun way to practice spelling words and turns homework time into game time.

You may also like one of these fun spelling activities:

Alphabet Bead Spelling Words

Movement Spelling: Walk Your Spelling Words

Dot Marker Spelling Words

Write Spelling Words on Your Window

Buy the 31 Ways to Practice Spelling Words Ebook

You can purchase a printable form of this book for $7.50 The book is designed to print and turn into a half-page size booklet. It’s perfect to keep at your homework station. Your kids can flip through and find a fun way to practice their spelling words.

The ideas will be convenient and ready to use. No need to turn on the computer every day for ideas.

Most activities require little to no prep time. And, if you make sure you have all the supplies on the Master Supply List (included in the book) on hand, you’ll be able to do any of these fun spelling word ideas any time.