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Easy Sight Word Snacks

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Sight Word Snacks
Last week I participated in Megan of Coffee Cups and Crayons Coffee Break on Google+. I was an awesome opportunity to share how we made apple chips and to hear about other snacks Mom Bloggers have shared with their children. Kelly of Smart School House shared some alphabet letter chips made with tortillas. They got me to thinking. JDaniel loves cheese on tortillas and I need to work with him on sight words.
Why not take out my tiny letter cookie cutters I thought and make him a sight word snack with cheese and tortillas? It would be easy to put together and he would inhale the words after reading them to me.
He loved finding them sitting on the kitchen table when he came home from school. The cheese has melted a tiny bit due the warmth of the day pouring into the kitchen window. He liked that unplanned added touch.The success of this sight words snack got me excited. I have been thinking of other foods I could use to create the snacks that spell out sight words.

Food Learning Activities Beyond Sight Word Snacks:

  • small lengths of celery with cream cheese could be used to build letters.
  • string cheese could be peeled into strings to form letters
  • small letter cookies
  • cinnamon toast cut with cookie cutters
  • cheese cracker Scrabble letters from the store
  • alphabet cookies from Trader Joes
  • potato sticks could be used to form letters
  • apple slices could be cut out with cookie cutters
  • cold spaghetti could be bent into letters
  • cookie cutters could be pushed into fruit leather to create words

My brain was reeling with ideas. I think I may have to create a whole series on sight word snacks. JDaniel would love to taste test them for me and I would get to help him work on sight words. Snacks give him a hands on way to interact with sight words and his taste buds get to participate too.

Brace yourself sight word snacks will be appearing on the blog every couple of weeks until I run out of them. If you have an idea for me to try, leave it in a comment below. If you like one of the ideas on the list and would like to see how it could be carried out, you can leave me a comment too.

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  4. It’s a great idea to incorporate it in their food. My youngest is just starting to learn them. We got through the 25. When we move up to the 50, he says, “I can’t do this. They are too hard.” I showed him that slightly bigger words can be broken up. I hope he’s not going to be an, “I can’t do it!” kid through much of his learning.

  5. I need to get some of the alphabet cookie cutters! Maybe it’ll spark some interest in my 3 yr old son and he’ll actually want to learn his letters.

  6. GREAT ideas! We love cheese and tortilla in our house. It’s something we can all agree on, which is rare. I actually love eating my food in shapes too. I’m secretly five-years-old at heart!

  8. Such a good idea! I am always trying to think of good snack ideas anyway so this is perfect, two things at once!

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