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October 7, 2014

Fun Sight Word Practice: Ghost Zappers

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Making sight word practice fun makes it more effective!  The more sight words new readers know automatically the better they can comprehend the text they are reading.  Since Halloween is coming we decided to practice with a little sight word ghost zapping!

Sight Word Practice Be a Ghost Zapper!

The premise of the game is similar to our Fire Hose Fact Practice Game, where the kids read and squirted the chalk sight words.

Sight Word Game for Kids--Ghost Zapping!

I used white sidewalk chalk to draw ghosts on our driveway with sight words on them.

Who ya gonna call? Sight Word Ghost Zappers!

He read the words to me and then “zapped” them with the water squirter!

This one was lots of fun and easy to play over and over again!  All I had to do was rewrite another word in the middle of the ghosts and we could keep playing.  You can put letters, numbers, math facts, or anything you want in the middle of the ghosts depending on what your child needs to practice.

We love to Move and Learn!  Each week we are joining with The Pleasantest Thing, Hands on : as we grow, and Toddler Approved to share fun and active educational ideas.

Fun Move and Learn Activities:

  • Spider Web Tape Game from The Pleasantest Thing
  • Spider Crawl Color Race from Toddler Approved
  • Photo Scavenger Hunt for Shapes from Hands on : as we grow
  • All of my Move and Learn posts!

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. JDaniel4's Mom says

    October 8, 2013 at 6:54 am

    I just put away my son’s water gun. I guess I need to take it out again. This looks like a lot of fun.

    Reply
  2. Jackie Higgins says

    October 8, 2013 at 7:54 am

    Look at that cute ghost buster! My son will LOVE this!

    Reply
  3. Malia {Playdough to Plato} says

    October 8, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    This looks like so much fun!! I can’t wait to try it when my boys get a little bit older. Pinning!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      October 9, 2013 at 8:06 am

      Thanks Malia! It was a lot of fun!!!

      Reply
  4. Anna@The Measured Mom says

    October 18, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    I need to have my five year old pull out his super soaker before winter weather sets in and use it for this fun idea! Love it!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      October 20, 2013 at 1:46 pm

      It was super fun Anna!

      Reply
  5. Anna@The Measured Mom says

    October 19, 2013 at 8:29 am

    Featuring on Monday – I’ll let you pin to the group board 🙂

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      October 20, 2013 at 1:46 pm

      Thanks Anna!

      Reply
  6. Valerie at Inner Child Fun says

    October 7, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    Oh! I love this so much, Megan!!! 🙂

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      October 12, 2014 at 10:59 pm

      Thank you Val!!!!!!

      Reply

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