ThisWord Building Activity Travel Kitis one of my favorite ways toincorporate learning into travel with young children.
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Supplies Needed for this Kit:
Step-by-step tutorial:
1.
Get a pencil or lunch box
Start by gathering all of your supplies.
Find a pencil box, we used the metal one.
Write words on jumbo craft sticks
Use permanent markers to write words on the jumbo craft sticks.
I made a few different sets of words for this word building activity.
This is a great way for early readers to build vocabulary and improve spelling.
Now the Word Building Activity Travel Kit is all ready for play!
The simplest way is to choose a word out of the pile that you want to build.
Place the craft stick onto the top section of the metal pencil box.
If not, simply name the letters and any corresponding alphabet sounds you do know!
Continue working your way through the craft sticks, building all of the words.
This travel kit can also be used with a pair of children as a Reading Guessing Game.
One person holds the craft stick covering up the letters and reads the word aloud.
The other person spells the word secretly inside the metal box.
When they finish, each person reveals their word to see if they match!
The other person builds the word in the metal box, letter by letter.
As soon as they think they know what word they are spelling, they can shout it out.
The person with the word stick should show them if they guessed correctly.
Its a great way to get in some hands-on word work and it isnt even limited to road trips!
