50 Playful Sight Words Activity Ideas

Immy is well and truly on the road to learning to read, arriving home from school with her very first levelled reader last week!

As I have shared previously, learning to automatically recognise high frequency sight words is an important part of learning to read as automatic recall positively influences reading fluency, which in turn aids clearer comprehension – you can read more about the importance of sight words to reading in this post – What Are Sight Words?

Providing lots of opportunity for children to revisit sight words is important to the development of automatic recall but this repetition doesn’t have to be boring, in fact the 50 sight word activity ideas included in the list below are most definitely not boring!

But before we get to the list, if your child loves playing games or learns best through fun and engaging activities (and don’t we all), please take a moment to check out our printable, no prep sight word games pack. Great for home revision, classroom literacy groups or withing learning support settings.

Sight word activities printable pack

50 Playful Sight Word Activity Ideas

50 Playful Sight Words Activity Ideas

1. Sight Word Spotlight:
A Little Learning for TwoSight words spotlight activity
2. Sight Words Speed Racer Game:
Childhood101
sight words speed racer
3. Sight Word Trampoline Jump:
Childhood 101
Kinesthetic-learning-ideas
4. Sight Words at Tub Time:
Tutus & Tea PartiesSight words tub time activities
5. Blowing Down Sight Words Game:
Toddler Approvedblowing down sight words game
6. Sensory Sight Words:
Mess for Less
sensory_sight_words
7. Alphabet Rocks:
Childhood 101
alphabet rocks sight words
8. Sight Word Jenga:
The First Grade Diaries
sight word Jenga
9. Sight Word Beach Ball:
Kids Activities BlogSight-Word-Beach-Ball
10. Sight Words & Elefun:
Here Come the Girls
Sight words and Elefun
11. Magnetic Build-A-Word Tray:
I Can Teach My Childmagnetic sight word tray
12. Sight Word Tic Tac Toe:
Confidence Means Parenting
sight word tic tac toe
13. Sight Word Island Jumping;
Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
sight word island jumping
14. Q-Tip Sight Word Painting:
Scribble Doodle and Draw
sight words in a paint baggie
15. Sight Word Cup Crash:
Coffee Cups & Crayons
Sight-Word-Game-Cup-Crash
16. Popsicle Stick Word Puzzles:
This Reading Mama
Popsicle-Stick-Sight-Word-Puzzles
17. Paper Plane Sight Word Fun:
This Reading Mama
paper-airplane-sight-words-game
18. Roll A Word Alien:
Playdough to Plato
Roll-a-Sight-Word-Alien
19. Where’s the Bear? Game:
Sprinkles to Kindergarten
wheres the bear sight words game
20. Sight Word Parking Lot:
Juggling with Kids
sight word parking lot game
21. Sight Word Hopscotch:
Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
sight word hopscotch
22. Shower Time Sight Words:
Childhood 101
shaving cream sight words
23. Sand Tray Play Ideas:
Childhood 101
Sand tray sight word activities
24. Sight Words Sensory Bin:
Shining Our Lights
sight words sensory bin

25. Ping Pong Ball Fun:
Melissa Culver’s School Daze
ping pong ball fun
26. Sight Words Fun with Gems:
The Educators’ Spin On It
Sight Word Fun with Gems
27. Squeegee Sight Words:
A Little Learning for Twosqueegee sight words
28. 3D Sight Word Search:
No Time for Flashcards
3D-Sight-Word-Search
29. Sight Words Emergent Readers:
The Measured Momsight words printable emergent readers
30. Bingo with QR Codes:
Technology in Early Childhoodsight words bingo activity
31. Sight Word Magic Squares:
Playdough to Plato
Sight-Words-Squares-Game
32. Lego Reading Game:
The Pleasantest Thing
reading-game-with-Lego
33. Clothes Pin Match:
Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
clothes pin match
34. Sight Word Target Practice:
I Can Teach My Child
paper plate sight word target practice game
35. Sight Word Seashells:
NurtureStoresight word seashells
36. Sight Word Scramble:
Playdough to Platosight word scramble
37. Roll a Sight Word Game:
I Can Teach My Child
roll a sight word game
38. Gross Motor Sight Word Game:
No Time for Flashcardssight-word-gross-motor-game-
39. Magic Sight Words Painting:
The Pleasantest Thingmagic painting sight-words-activity
40. Sight Words Crayon Rubbing:
School Time Snippetssight words crayon rubbing activity
41. Gross Motor Sight Word Toss:
Learn With Play at Home
gross motor sight word toss
42. Sight Word Connect 4:
Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
connect four with sight words
43. Sight Word Pizza Box:
Boy Mama Teacher Mama
sight-word-pizza-box
44. Sight Word SMASH!:
School Time Snippets
sight word smash
45. Sight Words Balloon Match:
A Little Learning for TwoSight words balloon matching game
46. Sight Word Drawing Challenges:
Childhood 101
CVC-Words_High-Frequency-Words-for-Beginning-Readers-@-Childhood-101
47. Sight Words Swatting:
School Time Snippetssight word swatting activity
48. Slingshot Word Challenge:
Inspired by Familysight word slingshot game
49. Muffin Tin Sight Words Games:
Growing Book By Bookmuffin tin sight words activities
50. Sight Words I Spy Bottle:
Sugar AuntsSight words I Spy Bottle

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45 Comments

  1. Gabrielle @ Littlelock says:

    Thanks for this fantastic collection of site word games and activities. I will have to work my way through these with my almost 5 year old.

  2. Wow what an amazing list! And I like the idea of scrabble tiles, lots of fun!

  3. Melissa Odom says:

    I have been searching on pinterest for ideas to work on sight words with my students. However, this is the first time I’ve come across such quality ideas in one place. Thank you for taking the time to compile this list. It will serve as an outstanding resource in the months ahead. Thank you!

  4. Wow, what a great resource! Thank you for including Growing Book by Book’s muffin tin sight word game in the list. I’ll be sharing this link!

  5. argh sight words! I used to really dread them when I was teaching. This is a crazy number of fun activities though 🙂 Jack is not really interested in learning to read too much yet, which is fine, he can do c-v-c put that’s it at the moment. I wasn’t looking forward to introducing sight words but these look fun 🙂 I even love the scrabble 🙂

  6. Gosh I’ll need to start thinking about this type of thing soon and this is a good place to start! These ideas look far more fun than the boring old ipad (not to mention better value!). Great list.

  7. Wow pinning to use many times in the future!!

  8. stephanie says:

    A great collection of ideas! Thanks for sharing out Sight Word Pizza Box!

  9. Oh my, this is one of those post you have to bookmark. So many activities to explore. Love the, Christie!

    Also, I wanted to say thank you for your wonderful words of wisdom at PB con. I really appreciated our chat xx

  10. Great list! Sight words are so important, aren’t they? In our house, we had a word of the day along with a short sentence on the whiteboard in the kitchen which worked well for us. I think it’s important to put them in context sometimes to help with the spelling of them later.

    I’ll always have one activity that focuses on sight words in class. I shared some on my posts about literacy centres awhile back but will be giving some of these a try next. Thanks for sharing 🙂

  11. What a wonderful collection! It’s these types of posts that make things a lot easier for me to introduce fun and educational activities in the home because I don’t have a teaching background or many creative bones in my body! Thank you.

  12. What a handy collection. Pinned 🙂

  13. Wow, what a fantastic round up! I will be using these ideas, Bubble is bringing home new sigh words every week and I’m running low on ideas for practicing them! Thank you for including our links, honoured as always to be included here.

  14. I love these ideas! My husband and I are firm believers in you can’t just send them to scho and expect them to excell….we have always worked with our son Lucas (6 years old) using books, workbooks etc… he excelled in pre K. He is always ready for the next thing! We started using the sight word caterpillar the summer before kindergarten he knew 50+ sight words on his first day!!! It was a great tool for us!! I will brag a little on him now…he it top reader in his class his last WPM was 92! He is also doing 3rd grade math!! And in his Awanas he had his 1st sparkies workbook & extra credit book completely memorized!! He worked on it & we always encouraged, praised, worked with him & provided fun learning aid & ideas!! So thanks for these ideas!!! We love getting creative ways to nurture our boy!

  15. LOVE your ideas! Thanks for sharing. Here is a game I play with my own children and Kindergarten students that encourages word-building: http://wp.me/p4qsZ9-fs
    Thanks again 🙂

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  17. Kara Gupta says:

    Great list, I will be adding many of these to our at home practice. One that we recently had success with was using washable markers and instead of writing on paper writing on our legs! Bonus of this activity also resulted in a bath 🙂

  18. Christie Burnett says:

    Pinned this great resource to use in my classroom. When I came to the end of the article I laughed to see the author’s name was my name!

  19. Some wonderful ideas here! Thanks for putting this list together and can’t wait to try some of these out on my pre-schooler.

  20. Thanks for the great list! My husband and I built a free Dolch Sight Words app for iOS & Android. It includes translations (currently Spanish and Arabic, with more coming!), and it is really fun and interactive to use. We’d love for you to check it out! See my blog link for more info & links to download for free.

  21. Thank you so much!!!! Amazingly fun and creative ideas. I am having a ball teaching my students sight words.It takes something very monotonous into exciting activities. This is an incredible resource.

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  27. Those are fantistic tips and games for kids! I’m an ESL teaching in China, and I try out the COFFEE CUP GAME, and the kids LOVE it !!!!

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