Sentence Please - Write a sentence for each spelling word.Ĭolorful Words - Use two different color pens to write your spelling words. Player with most squares at the end wins. When a player forms a square, he can write his initials in the box. If the word is correct, he connects two dots. Before taking a turn, the player must spell a spelling word. Now try to write the word.Ĭonnect the Dots - Make a square of 4 rows of dots with 4 dots in each row. Take a colored pen and draw an outline around the word, closely following the shapes of the letters. Trace Around - Print one of your spelling words neatly. The object is to guess the word before the snowman melts. Play like hangman (don't forget to draw the lines to show how many letters the chosen word has), but erase a part of the snowman for each guess. On a wipe-off board or chalkboard, draw a snowman with hat and three buttons. Snowman or Scarecrow (Hangman) - Snowman is a nonviolent version of Hangman. For a real challenge, play black-out bingo. If the player does not have the word, he turns his paper over and writes it on the back. If a player has the word on his bingo card, he traces over it with a pen or colored pencil. Each person makes his own game board and chooses 16 words from the current list and past lists (or use the same words more than once). Spelling Bingo - Each player folds a piece of paper 4 times so you have 16 boxes. Child receives point every time he passes home base. If batter cannot spell word, he remains where he is. If batter can spell it correctly, he moves forward one base. Spelling Baseball - Draw four bases on a piece of paper or set up four chairs to be the bases. If you have one you want to share, please leave a comment below or on my Facebook page.Type ‘Em - Type all of your spelling words on the computer or on a typewriter.įancy Letters - Use old magazines, catalogs, or newspapers to cut out letters and glue them down to spell your words! I am sure you can come up with more spelling games using the mixed up words and the cute apple cup creations. If they are working against each other, make sure they get a chance to work with each set of words. They can work on each row together or see who can complete their row first. Children will work in pairs to unscramble the words. Each cup in each row has a mixed up word under it. Children will be able to make better estimates after they have completed a few apples. You can set a goal to go faster each time or estimate how long it will take you to unscramble each apple. When children have the word unscrambled, they will move on the next apple cup.Ĭhildren can use a watch or timer to see how fast you can unscramble each of the words under an apple cup.

Children will need to take the pieces of a word from under one cup and unscramble them. The title of this game tells just what children do to play the game. Put the sections of index card for each word under a plastic cup. Cut each index card so that each individual letter will be on its on piece of index card.ħ. You may want to leave large spaces between your letters or fold them into the number of sections your willĦ. Write a spelling word on each of the index cards. Leave some of the pipe cleaner on the other side of the leaf to make a stem.ĥ. Push the pipe cleaner through the slit in the leaf and then into the hole in the cup. Cut out 10 leaves from the green construction paper and place a small slit near the front of each leaf.Ĥ. Cut the green pipe cleaners into thirds.ģ. (If you have more than 1o spelling words, you will need more cups.)Ģ. Cut a small slit in the bottoms of 10 plastic cups. Here is how the spelling games were put together:ġ. Let me walk you through how I put together the games and then I will share with the spelling games I came up with. What I came up with was a group of spelling games that are played with mixed up letters placed under red plastic cup apples. I just needed to think about how for a little while. We can save some for the next family gathering, but I just knew we could use some of them now for spelling games. We must have over bought because there were tons of red cups left over. We recently purchased a huge container of red plastic cups to use at a family reunion.

Alphabet pipe cleaner spelling words