I had talked previously about sight words and how practicing flash cards is no fun! Building on making learning fun, S recently had a water balloon fight to practice CVC words, but you could use the same idea for learning letters, numbers, sight words and more.
What is a CVC word?
CVC words are words that follow the pattern consonant-vowel-consonant. These are considered the simplest words and the starting point of many phonics programs.
How to Play?
On a hot day, we filled up a bunch of water balloons. I wrote out CVC words, some that she knows and some new ones, in chalk on our driveway.
There are a couple ways to play, you could call out a word and have your child throw the water balloon at the correct word. Or you could have your child read you the word and then throw the balloon.
S had a lot of fun throwing the water balloon and getting her feet wet! Plus any leftover water balloons are fair game! 🙂
Here are some other ideas for water related learning this summer:
Here are some other ways to make learning fun:
How to Encourage Your Writing with Young Children
How to Make Math Fun for Preschoolers
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You always share such fun ways to learn. Learning sight words with water balloons is genius! Looks like S is having a blast!
Thank you Alli! She had so much fun and then even more when the water balloons got turned on each other.
What a fun and creative learning activity! It looks like your daughter had a fun time, too!
Thank you Trish! She did especially when we used the leftovers on each other!
How fun! We’ll have to try this in Grandma’s driveway this summer (since we don’t have one)!
Thank you Julie!
Wow! This is so creative and awesome. I remember when I was little, I had some issues with reading and my teacher at the time suggested that my mom record me reading. I still have no idea how that helped (LOL), but it did. I love to see creative things like this for children.
What a great tip! I am going to have to try recording my daughter and see how that goes. It’s always interesting to see the different ways that children learn.
As an early childhood education major, I can see this being a hit with beginning readers!!
Thank you Lisa! It was a big hit for her.
This is such a genius idea, I am definitely pinning for when Hudson is older. Thank you friend!
Thank you Jessica!
What a fun and creative idea! I cannot wait until by daughter is old enough to do fun things like this!
Thank you Jessy!
loved the content and site!!! especially the alphabet soup idea
Thank you Sacha!
These are fantastic water ideas, for sure! Thanks so much for taking the time to link up with us over at the #HomeMattersParty – we hope to see you again on Friday!
Thank you Kristen!
This looks like *way* too much fun to be considered learning as I remember it! lol! Great idea!
Thanks Emma! It was fun!