Here are the materials we used for this project: (Amazon affiliate links) This project is the second project in our Summer STEAM Camp series! This week, we are exploring with the sense of touch. If you doВ try any of the above sight wordsВ activities, please leave me a comment below telling me about it or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.HereвЂ™s a simple open-ended building activity for kids of all ages вЂ“ Colored craft sticks, wooden cubes, and small plastic cups! Simple materials, and yet we have been having a blast building all kinds of amazing structures with them. Here are a number of other sight word games and activities: Children have to share a word that rhymes with the word they have selected as well as reading the word. This version is a twist on the first game. It will be harder to balance the word sticks on the lid. To make this version very challenging the sticks can be place on an over turned jar lid. If the stick rolls or falls off the stack, then they have to place in back in their pile to try adding again later. If they read the word correctly, they can add it to the pile of sticks. They will take turns reading the words on their sticks. Children are given a equal number of the sight word chopsticks. This version of the sight word games is played backwards.

In this version they only knew what the word would be if they selected a stick that someone had to put back in the pile. We found that kids tried to pick words they thought were easy in the first version of the sight word games. In this version of the game the players will not get to see what word they are removing for the stack. To insure that the sticks end up upside the players of the game will build a pile of chopsticks with the words faced down. If the stick moved another stick or was misread, it was slipped back into the pile. If the stick was successfully picked up and the words was read correctly, the stick was added to the readers success pile. (The plastic mat was selected because the sticks on the bottom would slide easily off the mat.) Then we took turns trying to pull out a chopstick out of the pile. I figured children could just turn the chopstick over to see the word it if was faced down.ДЄll of the sight word pick up sticks were gathered up in one hand and dropped onto a plastic mat. You may choose write a word on the front and back of a chopstick. The letters were written on only one side of a chopstick. ) Another thing I need to do is write the below the line letters (Letters like g and q.) a little higher up on the chopsticks. (I really need to invest in some Sharpie Twin Tip Permanent Markers, Fine & Ultra-Fine Points, Black, 4 Pack (32175PP). The words were written on the chopsticks with traditional markers because of that the letters got a little blurry. We used them to play a bunch of sight word games.

Just recently I wrote some of this yearвЂ™s sight words on wooden chopsticks. We have used our list to explore words on a taped spider webВ and by hanging tissue paper leaves in the correct order to create words.

That list can be used to create great sight word games. You can develop a compiled list of sight words from those lists. You probably have a bunch of word lists that your kids have brought home from school or worked with at home.

Balance game pile of wooden sticks