The idea of using Lego for spelling practise isn’t new by a long shot, but it’s both fun and motivating. What better way to shake things up a bit, than with a spot of Christmas Lego Spelling! You just need some building bricks (Lego, Duplo or market equivalent), and a marker pen.
It doesn’t matter what level your child is at, there’s something for everyone. Enjoy some of that precious one to one time and play some Christmas Lego spelling games!
…unless of course you think October is FAR too early for Christmas words and wish to use other ones instead 😉
*The ideas get more advanced the further down the post you go…even our nine and eight year old get involved.
First of all, decide which words you would like to work with and mark up some Lego accordingly, using a marker pen. Remember, each brick has four sides and can therefore house four different letters!
For phonics fun, play games hunting for the different letters and sounding them out. The lego could either be spread out on the floor or table, or you could hide them as you would with an Easter egg hunt, and give the child(ren) a short list of all the letters they need to find.
For very new readers, you can set up your lego challenge as in the next image below. Use any words you like, such as things they’d like Father Christmas to bring them, short Christmassy words like ‘snow’, ‘elf’ or ‘tree’… have fun choosing the words together.
To start with, they can match letters up, copying from the base brick. As they gain confidence, they’ll be able to predict which letters they’ll need, and won’t need to see the whole word written down first.
The Lego pieces can either be clicked down on to a board to spell the words, or put on their sides on the floor or table.
or this…then you and the child can work together to match up the letter pairs that make up the whole word.
Or you can get them to finish off words, choosing from the letters left over…
For the more competent spellers, you can get them to find as many Christmas words as they can using the bricks they have…which they can of course choose and mark up the bricks themselves too!
As they gain confidence and become more competent, you could hold time trial competitions and integrate it with a mini treasure hunt:
- How many Christmas words can you make from the selection of bricks in 1 minute?
- How quickly can you build up all the words you’ve all decided to include? Use a timer!
- Spread all the pieces widely across a rug or table top and then repeat the challenges.
How about spicing up the weekly spellings homework with a spot of Lego spelling fun?
Whichever way you do it, have fun together and then maybe build a Christmas tree out of the bricks afterwards!
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