Learning about sight words doesn’t have to be boring! Use these fun, clever, and FREE hands-on sight words activities and engaging sight word games to learn sight words for kids! Kids will love reading when it is this much fun! These sight word games at home are perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too!

Sight Word Activities

Young children need LOTS of practice to learn key sight words. These common words make up the majority of the books preschoolers, kindergartners, first grade, and 2nd graders will read. However, these dolch sight words don’t follow phonics rules so they can’t be easily sounded out, but rather need to be memorized. Instead of making it a frustrating chore to learn sight words, which will make students reluctant readers, you can turn it into a fun reading game! All of these fun sight word games, clever sight word activities, and FREE Sight Word Printables are a great way for kids to have fun while practicing these important words.

Sight Word Games at Home

Among the fun activities to try with young learners are these sight word activities for kindergarten free and these sight word games to play at home. Try these sight word activities to solidify those pesky sight words.

• Sight Word Drag Racing – Playdough to Plato
• Sight Word Salt Tray – Mama Papa Bubba
• Sidewalk Sight Words – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Sight Word Stairs – Hands On As We Grow
• Hop on Popcorn Sight Words – ObSEUSSed
• Word Garden – Finding the Teachable Moments
• Sight Word Hunt – This Reading Mama
• Sight Word Slap – Hands On As We Grow
• Sight Word Hide and Seek – Sprinkles to Kindergarten
• Sight Word Play – Kids Activities Blog
• Sight Words Bottle Cap Stamp – The OT Toolbox
• Sight Word Puzzles – This Reading Mama
• Caterpillar Sight Words – This Reading Mama
• Bread Tie Sight Words – Hands On As We Grow
• Sight Word Knock Down – Hands On As We Grow
• Animal Sight Word Chants – This Reading Mama
• Sight Word Run – Simple Play Ideas
• Sight Word Cup Crash – Coffee Cups and Crayons
• Sight Word Smack – I Can Teach My Child
• Jello Pond Sight Words – Learning 2 Walk
• Muffin Tin Sight Word Game – Growing Book by Book

Sight Word Games

Most of these clever free sight word activities can be done with a variety of words making them adaptable for learning all 220 sight words! So while parents, teachers, and homeschoolers tend to start learning sight words with fun sight word games for kindergarten, they will continue them until students have mastered all of them and are confident readers. Take a peak at these sight word activities for kindergarten and up!

• Sight Word Bang – The Red Ballooned
• Candyland Sight Word Game – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Sight Words Road – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Bug Sight Words Game – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Sight word bingo free printable – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Sight Word Guess Who – This Reading Mama
• Sight Word Basketball – Coffee Cups and Crayons
• Sight Word Battle – Liz’s Early Learning Spot
• Sight Word Rescue – Simple Play Ideas
• Rhyming Domonios Sight Word Game – No Time for Flashcards
• Sponge Sight Word Bowling – Toddler Approved
• Roll a Sight Word – I Can Teach My Child
• Very Hungry Caterpillar Sight Word Game – Playdough to Plato
• Sight Word Showdown – Playdough to Plato
• Sight Word Soccer – Coffee Cups and Crayons

Sight Word Printables

If your kids prefer worksheets, they will love these free sight word printables!

• Sight Word Blackout – This Reading Mama
• Sight Word Sentence Cards – This Reading Mama
• Sight Words Printables – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Bug Sight Words Reader – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Sight Words Rockets – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Ice Cream Sight Words – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Building Sentences Sight Word Printable – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Sight Word Fishing – This Reading Mama
• Sight Word Tic Tac Toe – Finding the Teachable Moments
• Sight Word Action Cards – This Reading Mama
• Building Sight Words – Mom Inspired Life

Preschool Sight Words Activities

Free pre k sight words activities to make learning fun:

• Free Printable Sight Words List
• Sight Words Construction games for Kids
• Crazy Roads Preschool Sight Words Game
• Cut & Paste Worksheets – pre primer sight word sentences
• Penguin Sight Word Maze
• Christmas Sight Words – Read & Dab Mats
• Summer Free Sight Word Games
• Rocketship Sight Words
• Chocolate Box Preschool Sight Words Activity
• Valentine Color by Sight Word Worksheets
• Monster free printable sight word worksheets
• more preschool sight word activities
• Reading the EASY Way – Pre School Reading Program

Kindergarten Sight Words

Looking for more fun, hands on kindergarten sight word worksheets, games, and activities? Check ideas these out:

• Farm Printable Sight Word Games
• Pumpkin Sight Words Game
• Dinosaur Sight Words Activity
• Guess Who SIght Word Game
• Free Christmas Sight Word Worksheets
• Blackout Sight Word Game
• Battleship Sight word games
• Summer Mazes – Sight Word Worksheets
• Read! Trace! Write! – building sentences with sight words
• Rapunzel Sight Word Coloring Pages
• Arctic Animals Sight Words Game
• Pirate Sight Words Game
• Sight Word Groundhog Day worksheets
• Free printable sight word books
• Color by Sight Word Christmas
• Thanksgiving sight word coloring pages
• Train Sightwordsgame
• Popcorn sight words printables
• Apple Sight Words Tree Activity
• Gingerbread Sight Word Coloring Sheets
• Color by Sight Word Spring Reader
• Easter Sight Words Maze Worksheets
• Peacock Kindergarten Sight Words Activity
• Crazy Roads – Kindergarten Sight Word games
• Flower Sight Word Maze Worksheets
• Ocean Sight Words Worksheet
• Kindergarten Sight Words Christmas Activity
• Candy Cane Sight Words Activity
• Winter Free Sight Word Worksheets
• plus lots more kindergarten sight words activities
• Kindergarten Reading the EASY Way – ways to master kindergarten sight words
• Free Printable Sight Words List
• Bug Sight Word Games

1st Grade Sight Word Games

Looking for more sight word games, activities, and worksheets to make practicing fun? Try these ideas:

• Crazy Roads First Grade Sight Words Games
• Cut & Paste 1st Grade Sight Words on the Farm
• Spring Flower Sight Words Game
• Sight Words BINGO Printable
• Bug Sight Word Readers kids create by cutting, pasting, and coloring
• Sight word flashcards printable
• Reading the EASY Way – 1st Grade Reading Game
• Sight Word Garden Game
• Frog Sight Word Games
• Candyland Cards Printable
• Bug Sight Word Games
• Alphabet-O Sight Word Alphabetizing Games
• Sight Word Tracing Worksheets
• Printable sight words Lists

2nd grade sight word games

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Seasonal Sight Word Activities

Seasonal sight words activities for every season!

• Sight Word Conversation Hearts – Life Over C’s
• Spring Sight Words Flower Game – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Springtime Sight Reader – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Artic Animals Sight Words – 123 Homeschool 4 Me
• Scarecrow Sight Words Game – J Daniel 4’s Mom

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