Today in this Homeschool Crafts, Home School Learning Game we will make Sight Word Dice! My 6-year-old is already reading and writing but I want to stay consistent with phonics. Learning sounds and putting them together, this will only help his reading and writing skills even further. He loves this new fun game that we have added to his daily routine so it’s only fair to share it with you and your awesome kids too.
Fun Kids Crafts Supply list:
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Clear Packing Tape
- Construction Paper
- Sharpie Marker
- Ruler
Supplies needed for craft
I began by cutting up my small cardboard box. I measured out 12- 3×3 inch squares, 6 squares for 1 dice. This was the most time-consuming part but all in all this craft only took me about 1/2 an hour from start to finish. I begin by taping my squares together, 4 in a row then shape it into my box shape, taping that together. Once my sides have been all taped up I then tape on my top and bottom to finish up my dice boxes.
Our Dice
I then cut 12 pieces of 3×3 inch construction paper squares. I only use 6 different colors, I use the same colors for both to help match up the original words that I will write onto each side.
The Dice with the construction paper on it.
I then add my onsets and rimes. One-letter onsets are a single syllable. For example if a teacher says, “dog.” She would drop off the “d” (the onset) and be left with “og.” (the rhyme). It is an important skill for children to be able to segment onset-rimes, as it is an early reading skill. When children have difficulty segmenting the onset-rimes, they often have trouble learning to read later.
I used some common onsets and rimes: D og, C ake, S ail, M op, T en & B and for our sight word dice. This way when we roll them not only can we come up with the word Ten but also Men or Cake and also Bake.
onsets and rhymes
We have had so much fun playing and making words together. I taped a piece of paper to the wall for my 6-year-old and have him write each recognizable word that we can come up with. We may not always get a real word from the dice but it is neat seeing him sound out the word and telling me, “No that’s not a word”!
Time to Roll them Dice
Roll them dice
Creating Words
We come up with a total of 10 words before we call it the End of the Game. Once we have all of our words written up on our sheet and all 10 are there, we review each word and I have him tell me each word that he wrote down while we then use them in a sentence.
Having Fun
Let those Dice Roll
We hope that you have fun and enjoy your new Sight Word Dice. We love them and enjoy taking some time out to play a game and the best part of that is we are playing a game but learning our butts off. 
About Angie
Angie is a stay-at-home mom to 4 wonderful children. She has her hands full with a teen, a tween, a homeschooled 1st grader, and a beautiful baby girl. Angie likes to share her homeschool crafts and learning ideas along with wonderful items on Baby Branch. Being a mother of 4 is always exciting and keeps this mom on the go. Loving and Living this busy life and sharing those wonderful stories.
This is a great idea! Anything to make learning more fun!
Thanks Erica, I am so glad that you like it and I hope that your kiddo’s have fun with it as well <3 ~angie~
As a teacher and a mom who loves to teach her kids, I LOVE this!! My 3 year old is starting to read books and I know she would think this is fun! Thanks for another great idea!
Thanks Jennifer I appreciate the wonderful comment, especially coming from a teacher! I sure hope that your daughter loves this game and I hope that I can come up with some more great ideas for us all
~angie~
This is fantastic! What a great idea
Thank You and I hope that you enjoy it <3 ~angie~
I love this ideal,,my niece is home schooling an she will lvoe this
Thanks Vickie, and I hope that she enjoys it as much as my little guy does
These dice are such a neat idea! I am sure they were fun to make, and I can think of a few ways to use them for learning.
Thanks Kecia, I hope that you love them as much as we do! And if you find some other cool ways, please share with me and I would love to add those on for my sons learning fun! ~angie~
This is such a great idea! I can’t wait till my daughters old enough to play this! Thanks so much for the post!
Your welcome Austin and maybe I will be able to come up with a fun learning game for your child’s age group soon
~angie~
This would be a great craft and fun game for me to use with my boy, too!
I hope that you and your boy enjoy this
thanks Janet for you comment! ~angie~
GREAT THING TO DO….KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK…
Thanks Randy
I appreciate the wonderful comment! ~angie~
So creative! We might try this with other areas of learning too!
Sounds great Lindsey, if you come up with some other awesome ideas please feel free to share with me
~angie~
Great idea! I love it’s all things you can find around the house!
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