Word Stamping Activity
If you’re like me, you enjoy brainstorming creative ideas for how your kids can break away from pencil and paper activities and approach learning in ways that engage as many of their senses as possible.
Around here, we are all about hands-on learning opportunities, and over the years, this word stamping activity has been a great activity for my kids.
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Stamping Letters, Words, and More!
At the early preschool level, we have used Play-doh and alphabet stamps to explore the letters of the alphabet.
Letter Stamping has been fantastic for encouraging letter recognition – chatting about letter sounds (and words that start with those letters) along the way.
As my kids have started learning more and more words, we have taken this a step a further and used Play-doh or Silly Putty and alphabet stamps to practice:
- CVC words
- sight words
- spelling words
- vocabulary terms
Setting Up this Word Stamping Activity
The tiny little tubs of Playdoh are perfect for 3-letter and 3-letter words.
In fact, the Playdoh doesn’t even have to come out of the container. WIN!
As we continue to extend this activity with larger words and terms from various subject areas, we roll the Play-doh out in front of us in order to have a larger workspace.
Using a tray (or cookie sheet) to contain the mess can be super helpful!
Anyone else have a love-hate relationship with Playdoh?
I think it’s such a great learning tool, but I have to mentally prepare myself it.
Ha! Please tell me I’m not alone…
Not sure you have these resources on hand?
- Alphabet Uppercase & Lowercase Alphabet Stamps Available Here – Similar to the ones pictured
Or try Silly Putty!
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