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October 15, 2014

Vowel Sounds Practice Game

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Vowel sounds are hard to practice, especially the A, E, and I. To make the phonics practice fun we created a fun vowel sounds practice game with cups!

Practice tricky vowel sounds with this fun cup guessing game!

Phonics Practice Game

  • 3 plastic cups
  • permanent marker
  • pom pom or gem or something similar

The vowel sounds can be harder to remember and reproduce correctly than the consonant sounds. To get in some extra practice I wrote 3 of the vowels on the cups and set up a simple phonics game.

Phonics Practice Game for Preschool and Kindergarten Kids! Learn those tricky vowel sounds!

 The kids took turns hiding the gem under a cup and then switching the cups around like the old shell game. The other child then guessed which cup it was under by saying the vowel sound they thought it would be under.

Fun Phonics Activity for Kids!

Moving and learning while practicing vowel sounds is a great way for kids to get them entrenched in their memories!

The other Move and Learn co-hosts were busy putting together Move and Learn Activities for kids this week too, make sure to check them out!

Other Ways to Move & Learn this week:

  • Leaf Name Game from The Pleasantest Thing
  • 10 Active Ways to Learn the Alphabet from Hands on : as we grow
  • Halloween Themed Movement Activities from Toddler Approved
  • Check out all our Move & Learn activities
  • Lots of ideas on our Pinterest board!

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. Nancy says

    October 15, 2014 at 9:25 am

    Love this idea! I’m trying it today with my grandsons!

    Reply
  2. Devany says

    November 12, 2014 at 8:46 am

    So smart…I love this!

    Reply
    • Megan Sheakoski says

      November 12, 2014 at 10:12 am

      Thanks Devany!!!! And I’m off to go pin the turkey geoboard now that it’s up! So awesome!

      Reply

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