Looking for a fun way to practice phonics with your preschooler? You’ll love the Phonics Bean Bags by Educational Insights!
What are Phonics Bean Bags?
They’re really fun double sided bean bags. One side has short vowels and the other has long, the set also includes c and g to show hard and soft sounds. There are 26 bean bags total and the feature cute embroidered images on each bag. They come with a draw-string storage bag and the best part in my opinion…they’re washable! Hooray!
I busted out some of plastic disks that I had and used them as ‘goals’. Then I let her pull a bag out, tell me if it used the long or short vowel, and what the beginning letter was. Then if she got it right she got to toss it into a hoop. The blue one was for short vowels an the red one was long vowels.
Some other ways to use the Phonics Bean Bags:
- Download my LOTW large floor Letters, then lay out the vowels on the floor and have your child toss the bag on the correct vowel sound.
- Use the LOTW Large Floor Letters consonants, then have your child toss the bags on to the correct consonant for the beginning sound of each item.
- Get a large piece of poster board, cut 5 holes in it, then write the one vowel on top of each hole. Have your student try to toss the bag through the correct hole.
- Take turns choosing a bag, then try to act out the image on the bag.
- Play Bean Bag “Hot Potato”. Sit all your students in a circle and play music while passing the bag around. Once the music stops whoever has the bag has to say the beginning sound and vowel.
- Play “I Spy”: Place several bags on the floor, and then say “I Spy something that starts with /d/”. Then let your student try to figure out what bag you’re looking at.
- Spell and Tell: Set out 3 bean bags whose beginning sounds create a simple CVC word such as bat, apple, turtle. Then have your child try to figure out the mystery word using the first letter from each bag.
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I would love to win a set of these! I do daycare, and i am always looking for fun ways to practice letters and sounds wiht the children I have!
Pick me! Pick me! I love reading your blog; I’m always trying to keep my own teeny tot occupied while I homeschool my first grader and preschooler, so I’m loving your frequent teeny tot posts! 😉
Thank you so much for sharing your great ideas! I am doing homeschool preschool with my daughter for the first time this year and we would LOVE the phonics bean bags to assist in learning! God bless you and your family!
Thank you for sharing your ideas! I would love to win these!
These look like a fun way to practice letter sounds. This is our first year homeschooling
and we would love some hands-on activities to reinforce the concepts.
so cute, I would love to win. No way I’m trying to make my own. 🙂
My kids would love these! Love your websight! It has been a lifesaver!
It is so cute and kids will love it.
Love the idea- great way to learn- can’t wait to win and play with my son and daughter : )
I am a kinder special education teacher…I am always searching for new ways to reach my students. I pray daily for God to make be the teacher my students need me to be. Never did I think I could find fun answers to help my kids learn from a web site. Thank you!!