Learning about sight words doesn’t have to be boring! Use these fun, clever, and FREE hands-on sight words activities and engaging games to learn about sight words! Kids will love reading when it is this much fun! Those sight words will be memorized by preschool, pre k, kindergarten, grade 1, and grade 2 in no time!
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, clever, and FREE 51 Sight Word Activities and Games are a great way for kids to have fun while practicing these important words.
Sight Words Activities
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
Easy 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 – 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 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
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