FREE Printable Ice Cream Compound Words Activity

Kids will love this fun using the free ice cream printable for this Ice Cream Themed Compound Words Activity. This fun summer themed literacy activity shas kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students add ice cream scoop words to create the compound word pictured on the ice cream cone. This is such a fun by Simply print pdf file with compound words exercises and you are ready to play and learn!

Compound Words Activity

Early elementary age children tend to prefer a hands-on compound words activity than a compound words worksheet. So we’ve created this fun compound words activities to help kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students practic building compoundwords. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this ice cream themed compound words printable activity which helps students strengthen their fine motor skill while working on their literacy skill. Use this compound words game for extra practice, at school or at home, summer learning, an ice cream or literacy activity or as part of an extra activity for those who finish their other work early.

Compound words exercises

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

At the bottom of the post you will find the pdf file. Print off all the pages. There are three compound words per page, with a total of twenty-seven different compound words such as backpack, strawberry, cupcake, dragonfly, footprint, toothbrush, snowman, hot dog, ladybug and starfish.

Ice cream compound word

To get this ready for your compound words game simply cut out each of the colored ice creams and the cones. Laminate for durability. Place all the ice cream parts in a pile and the cones in a separate pile.

When you are ready to play the Children will chose a cone from the pile and look at the picture on the cone.

• They will then go through the ice cream pile and find the two parts of the compound word.
• To extend learning, children can then practice writing the compound words down on paper.

Though this activity comes in color only, it is a great way for children to learn compound words and strengthen their fine motor skills.

Compound words ice cream

The following are the compound words included in this compound words actiities:

• backpack – back and pack
• bandaid – band and aid
• baseball – base and ball
• basketball – basket and ball
• butterfly – butter and fly
• cookbook cook and book
• cupcake – cup and cake
• dragonfly – dragon and fly
• footprint – foot and print
• groundhog – ground and hog
• hotdog – hot and dog
• ladybug – lady and bug
• mushroom – mush and room
• peanut – pea and nut
• pineapple – pine and apple
• rainbow – rain and bot
• sandcastle – sand and castle
• snowflake – snow and flake
• snowglobe – snow and globe
• snowman – snow and man
• starfish – star and fish
• sunglasses – sun and glasses
• superhero – super and hero
• toothbrush – tooth and brush
• toothpaste – tooth and paste
• strawberry – straw and berry
• watermelon – water and melon

Summer compound words