Literacy carnival games

Fantastically fun literacy games so kids can enjoy learning about the alphabet, phonics, letter recognition, rhyming activities, sight words and more.

Activities: Toss and Blend: A Carnival Game. You could use this so many ways-beginning consonants, medial vowel sounds, ending sounds.....

So, I was lying in bed one night and my mind kept racing..."How could I make math test prep FUN?" "What could I do to replace the repetitive habit of assigning sampler after sampler for preparing for our state standardized tests?" Then it hit me! A MATH CARNIVAL!!! So, I decided that I would make this vision come to life. It took A LOT OF PLANNING. And that is the truth! I had no idea where to start. All I knew is how I wanted it to look. I wanted streamers, colors, food, and games. Not lame…

Last weekend I hosted a Carnival party for my boys, and we had a ton of easy games that all the kids loved. Today I am sharing all the awesome carnival games and activities I put together for our little party guests. As the guests arrived, they made a couple of guesses at our guessing booth. The person that guessed the correct number of candies was given the jar full of goodies to take home. Our carnival prize punch was a big hit with the guests. They threw small rubber balls at the foam…

This snowball toss sight word game is a fun, active and engaging way for kids to learn sight words. It's a gross motor literacy activity that kids love!

A collaborative blog that shares teaching ideas and resources geared to third grade teachers and students.

Throw a simple party with educational carnival games. Use these Carnival Party ideas, including printables to get kids excited about learning!

I don't know how this always happens... it's been over a month since my last post! The weather is gorgeous here in Wisconsin this week and I am finally feeling motivation to sit down and BLOG! We have been soooooo busy with reading and writing in first grade and I am excited to share a few of my new and simple ideas with you!! But first, a peek at what I bought in the big TpT Teachers are Heroes sale!!! Oh my gosh! I am so excited about all of these items!! Highly recommend them all!! I…

Though I feel bad about throwing ping pong balls at goldfish as a child, I do have some fond childhood memories of the famous carnival fish bowl games. You know the ones-- ping pong balls are tossed into a group of bowls, and if they land inside a bowl, the player wins the goldfish. I thought, why not do this with candy fish? I taped sight words and this week's word family words onto plastic cups and had students toss the ping pong ball into the cup. If the ball landed in a cup, they would…