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Fall Activities for Young Readers and $500 Giveaway

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 Fall Activities for Young Readers

Fall is in the air and learning is happening everywhere. It is the perfect to time look through this amazing collection of fall activities for young readers and pick out your favorites. I have searched high and low to find a wide variety of reading activities that will be good to try with your children one-on one, in small groups or in centers. They activities have been organized by theme. Under each theme I arranged them by the specific skill they work on. There are over 50 ideas in this round up.

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Take your time and enjoy each one.After you have selected some to visit, I hope you will enter the $500 Giveaway shared at the end of this post.

JDaniel and Apples

Fall Activities- Apples

Word Families

Toddler Approved

Popsicle vowel worms slide through  paper apples to build words in the wonderful post from Toddler Approved.
Building Word Families- Worms and Apples
I have an apple and worm slide activity too. My worms change the initial letter of a word.
Learn.Play.Imagine
An apple word family tree activity was created by Learn.Play.Imagine. What fun!
Sarah's First Grade Snippets
Snippets by Sarah has a number of free printable that work on word families. They are awesome.
Word Recognition (Sight Words) 
 Life Over C's
What fun it would be to build words on a CVC tree just like Life Over C’s!
The Educator's Spin on Things
An apple memory game is shared in the post from The Educator’s Spin On Thing
 JDaniel and Leaves

Fall Activities- Leaves and Plants

Letter Recognition
 pre-k pages
Pre-K Pages has a several fall activities shared in this post.
Teach Mama
I love the leaf letter fishing.Leafy Letter learning can be found in this post from Teach Mama.
Buggy and Buddy
Letters appear out of nowhere in this fun post from Buggy and Buddy.
No Time for Flashcards
No Time for Flashcards has a felt leaf letter match. What a great way to learn with textured leaves!
Toddler Approved
This fall leaf alphabet movement activity from Toddler Approved has kids hunting and gather leaf letters.
Word Recognition (Sight Words)
 The Educator's Spin on It
The Educator’s Spin on Things has created a fun sight word jar filled with words and acorns. It wild be fun collecting the materials needed for this fall activity.
 1st Grade Sight Words Building Leaf Words
We have built sight words with leaf letters here on JDaniel4’s Mom.

Word Families

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas has created all word families trees that will be will be fun to create and explore. That is two fall activities in one!
 Playdough to Plato
Playdough to Plato created a fall paint chip word family tree that looks really cool!
Story Retelling

 Kindergarten Works

Kindergarten Works has a fun literacy center set up for the retelling of the book Fresh Fall Leaves.

Story Exploration
Kid's Yoga Stories
Have you seen any of the books created by Kids Yoga Stories? She has a wonderful fall-themed book that is such fun to explore.
Wildflower Ramblings
Planting a Rainbow followed by actual planting is shared in a post by Wildflower Ramblings.
There's Just One Mommy
There is Just One Mommy sharing the book Hello, Squirrels, and some really fun story extensions. I also love the leaf activities she did to go with the book A Friend for All Seasons.

 Fall Activities for Young Readers

 
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1st Grade Sight Words- Building Leaf Words

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1st Grade Sight Words Building Leaf Words

Not everybody has  abundance of fall leaves that descend into their backyard the way we do here in South Carolina and some people long to have autumn leaves. I remember several years agp reading about a lady who wanted fall leaves sent to her so her children could learn and explore with them. When I came across a package for crepe paper colored leaves at the dollar store, I remembered reading her plea. The leaves I found weren’t real leaves, but they are leaves that can be used for learning activities or exploring.  These leaves will last way past this fall. The 1st grade sight word game I created called Building Leaf Words  will too

Here is How I Put Together This First Grade Sight Word Activity

I went through a list of  1st grade sight words to see what letters seemed to appear in the largest number of them. I ended up with the following letters:

  • a
  • e
  • h
  • i
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • r
  • s
  • t
  • u
  • w
  • y

Each of the letter above was written with a black marker on one of  the leaves. I tried to created pretty big letters. There was a wire that went down the center of each of the leaves. It was a little hard to write over, but I tried my best to make it look smooth.

1st Grade Sight Words Building Leaf Words

Then I strung a line of twine up on the deck for my son to hang to letters on to form words. The twine could easily have been hung between two chairs indoors. Actually you wouldn’t have to hang twine at all, you could arrange the leaf letters on a table to form 1st grade sight words. The letters I used had a wire down the center ( I mentioned that earlier didn’t I. ) We  formed into a hook on each of the letters to make them easier to hang.

1st Grade Sight Words Game One

1st Grade Sight Words Building Leaf Words

The letters were spread out on a piece of poster board and we talked about the words that we could make with them. We didn’t have any word list to go by. We just built words and hung them on the twine line. This version of the game using 1st grade sight words was a little tricky.

1st Grade Sight Words Game Two

1st Grade Sight Words Building Leaf Words

A list of some of the First Grade Sight Words for Kids (Click on the link to the left to download a free copy of the list.)  that can be built using the leaf letters can be place out with the leaves. We tried to build as many of the words as we could then we tried  to come up with more words of our own.

1st Grade Sight Words Building Leaf Words

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If you would like to try making leaf letters,  I found the same  Crepe Paper Fall Leaves  I used on Amazon.com.

For more sight words activities, please check out my Learning to Read board on Pinterest.

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{Free Printable} Word Games- Sight Word Scarecrow Game

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Free printable word games - sight word scarecrow

I am going to use the  Scarecrow Word Sight Word Game in this post to play words games that focus on sight words with my son. I thought you might like a copy of it to use with your children. You actually may decide that you want to play different word games with it or work on other reading concepts instead. It has been purposely left open ended.  Let me tell you about how I plan to use it.

As I mentioned we are going to use it for working on sight words. I found a list of first grade sight words online (my son is in first grade) and placed a number of them on one side of a 3×5 index card cut in half.  The goal of this game is to read a word to move forward one circle in the game. If you misread a word, then you stay on the space you are on.  I want to go through the pile of card more than one time with my son. Going one dot and a time means we will both have time to read each word more than once.

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Once we have played the game  by advancing space by space, I will introduce a die to the game. When we have to roll to see how many spaces to move forward, there is a chance we will get to move forward much faster. This means that this version will be one of those word games that can end quickly.

Introducing making up a sentence to go along with each word that children read will give them a chance to show that they understand what the word means. You can ask that the sentences  have more than four words or more.  It would be hard to come up with short sentences that make sense with these words. If you are working with children that love a challenge, you can tell them the sentence should be a statement or a question.

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After playing the game with this first set of words several times, I will create another set using different sight words on index cards. Once the words in the first set are mastered, it will be important offer more challenging words.  I may place a few of the old sight words in the stack on new words. Words that had given my son the most trouble will definitely need to be seen again.

Here are some other reading or word games you could play with this game board:

  • vowel sounds- share a word with the vowel sound on the card or tell the vowel sound of the word on a card
  • contractions- share what words make up a contraction
  • rhyming words- share a word that rhymes with the word on a card
  • spelling words- read the meaning of a word on a card and spell the word you think it defines.
  • synonyms and antonyms- read a word and share another word that means the same thing or the opposite of that word

There are probably dozen of other word games you could play with this game board with a scarecrow theme. (Click on the link to the left to download this free printable)

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Here some other words games that have been shared on this blog:

Dolch Sight Word Hopscotch

Tape Web Sight Word Activity

Sight Word Tree Activity

Sight Word Game- Apple Tree Words

Writing Sight Words on a Rainbow

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Reading Games- Sight Word Stackers

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Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

There is just something wonderful about stacking cups. As soon as I took out
these sight word stackers or cups with sight words on their bottoms, I was asked
what we were going to do with them. “We are going to play a sight word reading games,” I
announced. I confess that there was a slight sigh that slipped out of someone’s
mouth. Stacking cups is fun. Decoding words isn’t always viewed as fun, but it
can be made to be fun.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

It can be fun to race a friend to read the words on the cup. The first person to
read the word at the top of the stack gets to have the cup build a wall or tower
with. If it looks like one person maybe a stronger reader than the other, you
can have the children take turns reading the words on the cups. When a word is
not read correctly, it goes to the bottom of the pile or stack. (It can make someone
feel awful to have a friend quickly read a word they have struggled with.)

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

It can be fun to have the full stack of cups to read on your own or without
a friend too. The same rules apply to this version of the game. When you read a
word, you get to build with it. If you miss the word, it goes to the bottom of
the stack. That way you will be able to try to sound out a word a second time.
Another fun sight word game to play with the sight word stackers is to build
towers that contain the same vowel sound. You could even create cups that focus
on long or short vowel sounds. I just placed the  words on a first grade sight word
list on the cups. We are able to stack by vowel sounds, but our stacks for
particular sounds weren’t very tall.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

This same set of reading games could be done with spelling words. You could spell
and read the words on each cup to earn the opportunity to stack with it.

If you have child who seems reluctant to read the words in these reading games, you
might let them explore the cups first. Once they are hooked on stacking them, I
bet they will be willing to read the words on them.

Reading Games Sight Word Stackers

Here are some more Learning to Read Activities I have pinned on Pintererst.

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Learning Games for Kids- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

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Learning Games for Kids- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

As shared earlier in the week in my Educational Games- Color Sorting Turtles, learning games for kids that feature movie, book, or television characters catch children’s interest. Just as in that post I went with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In this post I only focused on one Ninja Turtle called Raphael who wears a red head band. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles love pizza so pizzas were  used as a game piece in this learning game for kids.

Sometimes learning games for kids focus on one particular skill. This learning game is open ended. The egg carton Ninja Turtle is the catching area or landing spot. Small pizzas were printed out on a section of a file folder to and then cut out. The pizzas as I mentioned are the game pieces.

How to Play These Learning Games for Kids

By keeping this game open ended we can play it to review or work on any type of learning concepts. If my son or I gets the correct answer, then we get to try to fling a pizza into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mouth.  In our version of the game we could get as close to the turtle’s mouth as we wanted too. When you set up your rules for these learning games for kids, you could decide to try flipping, tossing or flinging the pizzas from 6 or 7 inches away.

Our pizzas were colored in so that it looks like they have olives, mushroom, pepperoni, cheese, and ground meat. ( I have attached a copy of the Pizza Cards we used. ) You or your kids can color them in to represent the topping they like. You could also write numbers, words or letters and make this game focus on a particular skill. That is all up to you.

How to Build These Learning Games for Kids

Learning Games for Kids- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The Turtle’s Head Carton

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We took an old egg carton and painted in green. I think the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may have skin that is a darker green, but we used the green Acrylic Paint – Hunter Green.

that we had.  ( I found that acrylic paint works really well on cardboard.) We didn’t paint the inside of the turtles mouth. If we had I think we would have used red.

Then a piece of red construction paper was measured to fit on the turtle as his mask.  We found that cutting the strip on a diagonal gave us the long piece we needed. After looking at several styles of turtle head bands, we went for one that has rounded areas for the eyes.

White felt and black construction paper cut out to be used for his eyes. I thought the felt would add texture to this learning game.

When everything was cut out, we used an  Elmer’s X-TREME Extra Strength Washable School Glue Stick to get everything to say in place on the turtle.

After placing all the mask elements in place, I decide to round the end of the front of the egg carton to look more like a mouth. This isn’t something you may choose to do.

We added a small popsicle stick to either side of the turtle’s mouth to keep in open. We colored the stick green to help it blend in. You don’t have to do that step if you don’t want too.

Pizza  Game Pieces

After printing out the pizza game piece (see link to the game pieces above), we decorated. You can color them with markers, crayons or color pencils. We used markers for ours.

Learning Games for Kids- Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesAs I mentioned learning games for kids that feature characters they like will spark their interest and get them involved in the game easily.

What characters would  your kids like to see in homemade learning games for kids?

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Kids Building with Drinking Cups and 365 Penguins

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Play Dr. Mom sent us the book 365 Penguins (Reissue), some craft supplies, and over 400 drinking cups as a part of The Educators’ Spin On It’s Love Books Summer Exchange. After only a few minutes of looking at the book, it became on of our favorites. The book contains a lot of humor, fun pictures and a cute story. Play Dr. Mom had told us we would love it and she was right! She also said kids building with cups would be a hit and she was right. She is one smart lady.

365 Penguins

Before I tell you about building or stacking with cups let me tell you about the book 365 Penguins.  In the book a new  penguin is delivered everyday for a whole year. There is very unclear explanation that comes with each penguin in their shipping box until the very end of the book. What we do learn is that the family that receives them has to figure out what to do with them. Stacking them in just one of the fun ideas they come up with. What they do with the penguins and where they put them in their home is where the humor of this book comes in.

Kids Building

We were supposed to create a penguin using the craft supplies that were sent to us and at least one of the drinking cups. After seeing the penguins stack up in the book, JDaniel really wanted to try stacking all the cups instead.  About that time the next door neighbor called to ask if he could play. Both boys ended up creating grand walls on the kitchen table. One set the goal of having the longest wall and the other the most fancy.  Both walls turned out great!

Kids Building with Drinking Cups

Later we took the cups outside to build water gun targets. It was a little windy and the walls kept falling over. JDaniel and the now two boys from next door kept building them up and looking for areas on the front walk that were free from wind. It was wonderful to watch and hear the plans they were making to get walls to stay up.

Kids Building with Drinking Cups

First a long wall was built.

Kids Building with Drinking Cups

Then smaller walled buildings were built.

Finally they used the cups to create a walled city on the front porch. Each boy picked an area and worked on creating a wall. It was less windy there. These walls stayed up until it was time to head in for dinner.

Kids Building with Drinking Cups

The front of the porch received its wall first.

Kids Building with Drinking Cups

Then we all worked on the side of the porch and the area near the front door.

 

I just love watching the kids buildings grow. Each one required creative thinking and planning.

I need to thank Play Dr. Mom for a book we have read numerous times since her package arrived and many hours of many days filled with building. The plastic drinking cups have become the boys favorite building toy. We will make the penguins  later. I promise.

I also want to thank the ladies from The Educator’s Spin on It for including us in their book exchange.

 

For more book related craft and learning activities you will want to check out my Read.Explore.Learn Pinterest board.

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Love Books Summer Exchange

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Kids Activities- Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

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Kids Activities-Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

Working on the different sounds vowels helps children who are learning to read master the sounds. Interacting with vowels sounds in  fun pirate themed kids activities helps children identify words that they know that contain each of the vowel sounds. It also helps to reinforce the vowels sounds children already in their auditory memory.

This is one of those kids activities that children can play a number of ways. They can work on long vowel sounds, short vowel sounds or a mixture of both.  We focused on long vowel sounds when we explored this activity

These game could be played inside or out. Kids activities that can be played both places give you the option of playing this game in various learning and playing spaces.

 

Supplies Needed for the Kids Activities

Kids Activities-Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

  • Large plastic container
  • Construction paper to create a skull and crossbones
  • Heavy duty glue stick
  • Toy gold coins
  • Permanent marker (black)
  • Container for coins

Creating the Kids Activities Container and Coins

I hand drew the skull and cross bones for the outside of the large plastic container. You could easily print out a coloring page with the skull and cross bones and have your kids color it. When they are colored in, you could glue the picture to the container.

The gold coins we used came from a party store. On each gold coin I wrote one of the letters that is a vowel. It was a challenge to write the letters on the bumpy surface of the coins. Some letters came out much clearer than others.

 

How to Play Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

Kids Activities-Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

We took the coins and coin drop container out into the back yard. JDaniel was encouraged to stand straight and tall and try dropping the coin in the container after telling me a word that  had the vowel sound featured  on the coin. (He started to drop the coin from a lower height after having a few coins barely miss the container.)

Kids Activities- Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

I encouraged him to stand up straighter and hold the coin up at about waist height.  He found that the coin ended up going into the coin drop container more easily when he wasn’t bent over. It was also a whole lot more rewarding.

It was actually harder to get the coin in the container then it was to come up with long vowel word to match the letter on the coin.

Kids Activities-Gold Coin Vowel Sound Drop

You will find more outdoor activities on my Outdoor Fun for Kids Pinterest board.

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Fun Activities with Chicks and Eggs

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Fun Activities with Chicks and Eggs

This is the time of year for fun activities that feature chicks and eggs. Easter is part of the reason, but it is also the season that many birds give birth during.  (We can hear the baby birds chirping outside our front windows.) A number of big and little chicks along with their eggs have been featured in posts on this blog.

Let me share twenty of them with you!

Fun Activities with Chicks and Eggs- Math Shape Activity

Cool Math for Kids- Easter Egg Learning– Children decorate a construction paper egg with primary shapes. They are then asked to record how many of each shape they used to decorate their egg.

Easter Chick- Read.Explore.Learn.– Shares several fun activities with chick and eggs. One  activity includes a bingo dapper  and a polka dotted chicken. Read.Explore.Learn.- Counting Chicks and Ducks- This post focuses on several math activities with a poultry themed. Working with one on one correspondence is one of them.

12 Ways to Learn Using Plastic Eggs– A dozen different learning activities using plastic eggs are shared in this post.

Dolch Sight Words Unscrambled Egg Letters

Dolch Sight Words- Unscrambling Egg Letters– Dolch sight words are hidden in plastic eggs. Children are asked to unscramble the letters to form Dolch sight words.

Green Eggs and Ham- Read.Explore.Learn- This post shares several green eggs and ham themed activities. A tic tac toe game with bacon strip crosses and green egg circles make this game really fun.

Fun Craft for Kids- Torn Paper Chick– Torn paper gives this spring chicks a feathery effect that is fun and super cute.

{Rabbit’s Food} Read.Explore.Learn– Shares a fine motor activity featuring math, carrot shaped eggs, and numeral writing.

Cool Science Experiment- Making Spider Eggs

Cool Science Experiments- Making Spider Web Eggs- Shares how to make hard boiled eggs that when peeled are going to have a spider web design on them. These have serious awe factor.

Cool Science Experiments- Making a Rubber Egg– Directions on how to create a bouncy egg are shared in this post.

Science Experiments for Kids- Spinning Eggs- This post includes are downloadable recording sheet. Children explore whether a hard boiled or raw egg will spin.

Science Experiment for Kids- Floating or Sinking Eggs- Shares via a science experiment sheet how to make an egg float in a glass or water. The experiment sheet also includes a section to record the experiments results.

Kids Science- Egg Carton Catapult– Half of an egg carton becomes a catapult with just two other materials we all have a home. There aren’t any fun activities with chicks or eggs in it ,but sure is fun to fling objects from a catapult that used to contain eggs.

Fun Activities for Kids with Chicks and Eggs

Science Experiments for Kids- Frying Eggs on the Driveway– During a heatwave we decided to see if we could fry an egg on the driveway. It worked. JDaniel is still talking about this experiment.

{Science for Children} Falling Chickens– This post shares the book Loopy Coop Chickens Letting Go and a science experiment we conducted with cupcake liner chicken.

Fun Activities for Kids with Chicks and Eggs

Easter Game- Egg Toss Bottles- Two recycled juice bottles are transformed into plastic egg catchers. This looks like an easy game to play, but catching the egg in the catcher is trickier than it looks.

Plastic Egg Snake– Old plastic eggs become a fun threading activity in this fun post.

Deviled Egg Recipe for Kids– Walks you through how to turn hard boiled Easter egg into a delicious snack that your children will love.

Fun Activities for Kids with Chicks and Eggs

Easter Bunny Salad with Leftover Eggs– Leftover hard boiled eggs and toasted bunny croutons make the salad in this bento lunch fun and delicious!

Deviled Egg Recipe for Kids– Walks you through how to turn hard boiled Easter egg into a delicious snack that your children will l

{Kid’s Lunch} Apple Chicken Salad- Shares a delicious chicken salad with an apple crunch.

These fun activities with chicks and eggs covers a wide array of learning skills and fun foods. I hope that you will find  at least one or two egg and chick theme activities  here that you would like to try.

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{Dolch Sight Words} Unscrambling Egg Letters

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Dolch Sight Words- Unscrambling Egg Letters

 

You just never know what you are going to find when you open up a plastic egg. You might even find a  Dolch sight words game. That is exactly what my son found when he opened the plastic eggs in the brown basket above. While not the jelly beans he might have hoped to find in the plastic eggs, the letter cards that built sight words were delicious fun.

My son gets a list of sight words to work on each month in his homework notebook. Sometimes I just have him read them to me. Sometimes we play a sight word kitchen tile game. Sometimes I create a  dolch sight words game that we can play using them. This plastic egg sight word game is one I created for him.

Dolch Sight Words Unscrambled Egg Letters

As I mentioned, I put letter cards into a set of plastic eggs. The letter cards in each egg matched one of the colors on the outside of these tie dyed eggs. This was done so we could easily put the letters back in the egg that they came from. (I guess that really doesn’t matter. The words could be placed in any color egg. I just liked having  them matching.)

I asked my son to open one egg at a time and sort the letters in that egg into a word. Two, three and four letter words were the ones on the list I selected. Having a few simple words mixed with more challenging longer ones seemed like a great idea.

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When one egg word had been unscrambled, I had my son move on to another egg. There were some that he was able to guess as soon as he had set the letters out on the table.

When we had unscrambled all of the egg words, we pulled out his homework notebook and looked at the weekly list of word on his homework calendar. I asked my son to create as many of the words using the egg letter cards. It didn’t matter whether all the letters were the same color or not in a word. The idea was to interact with as many words as possible.

It was amazing to see how many words could be created using the letters found in the plastic eggs.

Dolch sight words unscrambled egg letters forming the word come.

Here are some Dolch sight words in activities we have done in the past:

Sight Word Game- Apple Tree Words

Easy Sight Word Snack

Worksheet for Kindergartners- Writing Words on a Rainbow

If you are looking for more sight words activities, you may want to check out my Learning to Read board on Pinterest.

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Easter Coloring Pages with Math and Reading Skills

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Easter Coloring Pages with Math and Reading Skills

Easter coloring pages can be more than just filling in various objects with color. They can as you will see in this post be Easter coloring pages with learning skills. Combining both coloring and learning engages children and sneaks in concept learning and review.

I created two Easter coloring pages that review a skill that my son and I have been working on. The first focuses on adding numbers up to twelve. The second focuses on letters that children commonly reverse when reading and writing.

Let’s look at how we used each Easter coloring page to learn and color.

Easter Coloring Page- Roll and Color Math Chick

Easter Coloring Pages with Math and Reading Skills.

The first coloring page we looked at is called Roll and Color Math Chick. JDaniel and I sat down with two die and a bag of crayons. He was asked to roll the two die and count up the dots on the each dice to find the sum. (As I mentioned in post called Cat in the Hat Math Activity Mats, we use dice with dots. If you have a more advance learner, you may want to use dice with numbers on them.)

Easter Coloring Page with Math and Reading Skills

Every time JDaniel rolled a sum he colored in the dot containing that number. If he rolled a number that was already colored in, he was able to color in the circle labeled Free. Once that circle was colored in, he had to roll again to try to find a sum that that was empty on the Easter coloring page.

Easter Coloring Pages with Math and Reading Skills.

Easter Coloring Page- Roll and Color Letter Chick

Easter Coloring Pages with Math and Reading Skills

The second Easter coloring page has uppercase letters on it. I had toyed with using lowercase letters in the circles, but I had trouble finding a font that had a lowercase “q” that children would recognize.

Easter Coloring Pages with Math and Reading Skills

The way the game worked was that I had put letters on colored dot shaped stickers. The stickers with the letters were put on wooden cubes. JDaniel was asked to  rolled one of the letter dice at a time. He read me that letter and then showed me its match. If he got it correct, he got to color the matching circle on the page. If he got it wrong, he had to roll the die again.

Here is the Roll and Color Letter Chick printable.

Both games ended up being a great way to review learning concepts. When JDaniel had finished each Easter coloring page, he was invited to color in the rest of the chick and add some other elements to the picture.

We sat down and did these activities together as parent and child. I think these roll and color Easter coloring pages could be done with pair of children as well.

If you are looking for math and reading activities for younger learners, you may want to visit my Early Learning-Math board or my Learning to Read board on Pinterest.

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