This interactive car spray activity helps kids practice spelling those first tricky words.
We have provided free Car and Word Printables so that it only takes a few minutes to set up. And kids will love ‘spraying down’ their tricky words.
Summary
Time: 10 minutes
Ages: Big kids
Difficulty to make: Easy peasy
Skills taught: Tricky Words – reading and spelling them
You will need:
- Free Car and Tricky Word printable downloads – click to view and print.
- Spray bottle or water pistol
Step 1: Print out the tricky word cars
We have provided 4 free printable sheets that you can click here to download and print off:
Free Car and Tricky Word printable downloads – click to view and print.
Together they have 24 common tricky words written on cars.
We have also included a sheet with blank cars at the end for you to add on any additional words you want to practice.
If you want you can laminate each worksheet so that the cars are waterproof. That way you can play the game again and again, without having to print out more sheets.
When you have printed them off, cut around each car. Then pop a blob of blue tac or a piece of rolled up sticky tape on the back of each one.
Step 2: Stick the tricky word cars onto a waterproof surface
Stick the tricky word cars onto a large whiteboard, a garden fence or a wall. Space them out.
Shoot to win
Arm your child with a water pistol or a spray bottle filled with water.
You can add a little food colouring to the water if you like to make things more exciting.
Shout out a tricky word. Your child has to find the car with the tricky word on it. In order to do this they have to read the words on the cars.
They spray their water pistol or spray bottle to hit the right target. High five them when they do.
Race to the tricky word
When your child is more familiar with these words, you can change up the game.
Let them pick a word on a car and read it aloud correctly.
When they do you can race to see who can spray the car down first, you or them.
Who will get to it first?
This activity can be extended for other words too. You can write rhyming words (cat, mat, hat) or words with a vowel digraph (moon, hoot, pool).
That way you can practice whatever you’re child is learning right now. Just add the words you want onto the blank cars on the last sheet to start playing.
Kids have so much fun washing down cars with water that they forget they’re practising their spelling too.
