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Bean Bag Decides – Blending

Place a vowel card on the mat. Say the sound that vowel makes together. Have a student throw a bean bag on the mat. Be sure the bean bag lands on one petal. Ask what letter and sound it landed on? Ask another student (or the same one) to choose a second letter that makes […]

Part of Speech

After making a word ask what part of speech the word is they just created.

Make a Sentence

Have the students use the word they create in a sentence.

Missing Letter

Place a bean bag on two. Then, ask the students what vowel would make the two letters into a word. Have them hop and say the word they made. (Can do same activity just without beginning or ending letter.)

Mystery Word

Say three letter sounds (that create a word from the mat) and have a student find the matching letters that would make those sounds. Then, have them jump on the letters they think and say the word they made. For example, if you say, “mmm”, they will find the ‘M’ on the mat. You say […]

Rhyming

Place a vowel on the center of the mat. Pick a letter that will make the ending of a word (e. g. a-t) Say the ending sound you made with your students. Ask students what beginning letter they could choose that would make a word. Ask if there are any other letters that would make […]

Write It

After doing several of the other activities challenge students to make as many real words as possible. Place a vowel in the center and have students sit around the mat and write down as many real words as they can. Have them take turns reading their lists.

Mad Word Hatter – Blending

Write several words that can be made for each mat out on index cards. Place them all in a box/hat etc. Have a student draw a card and say the word out loud (but not showing it). Have another student pick the correct vowel for the word, place it on the mat and jump the […]

Define It

Ask students to define the word they create.

Mad Libs

Use the mat to make up a funny short story by having students take turns jumping on different blocks and inserting a word into the sentence. It is okay to be silly but tell them it needs to make sense. The teacher can add article adjectives or conjunctions etc. as needed to make it flow.