Games to play with popsicle sticks

Popsicle sticks are a wonderful tool to use in your classroom! You can use them for multiple activities, and students will love how interactive these simple wooden sticks are. Try out the following popsicle stick activities to make your small group reading lessons more engaging!

There are so many ways to use popsicle sticks in your classroom! Here are a just a few options for keeping your small groups engaged:. You can use the sticks for literature circle questions and comprehension questions. You can also use the sticks for summarizing the plot.

Label the stick with the 5 elements of plot and if a child picks that element, they will give details to show their understanding. Another idea is to print questions on index cards and attach to the popsicle stick. Students will pick a question to answer. Active reading it the process of thinking and reflecting about the text while you are reading.

For some students, this process comes naturally; however, many children need to be explicitly taught how to do this. Create active reading prompt sticks using Read, Stop, Think! Make a working harmonica Housing a Forest. How awesome is that?! Remember that old game Labyrinth?

You can make your own marble maze Frugal Fun 4 Boys with popsicle sticks and an old shoe box lid. Teach your kids about gravity with this fun experiment Rookie Parenting.

Bonus…it can be adapted to learn just about anything. Recycle an old cardboard box to create this simple fine motor letter matching game for preschoolers Schooltime Snippets. Make your own dominoes Pink Stripey Socks to practice matching colors, numbers, patterns, etc. Or try this version Nuture Store , which helps kids practice rhyming! Use them to help your child practice making shapes Moms Have Questions Too.

Little Man and I had a great time adapting this activity to practice letters —trying to figure out how to make as many letters as possible with only straight lines. We love puzzles! These simple sight word puzzles And Next Comes L are perfect for my preschooler. Get matchy matchy with an easy-to-prep numbers matching game Education. You can even learn the days of the week Teach Me Mommy. And there is something so satisfying about that scratchy sound. These awesome free printable pattern cards Playdough to Plato are a great way to help kids practice patterns.

For little hands, these touch and feel sensory sticks The Baby Bump Diaries would be fun—and portable! This popsicle stick matching game The Relaxed Homeschool is perfect! They are popsicle sticks, after all. To win this game, you must have a vertical stack of six dice on the end of the stick, and it must be freestanding. You must balance all six dice on the end of the popsicle stick in just one minute. The rules are simple: Do not use your face to keep the tower of dice upright.

Also, if you end up dropping any dice on the floor, then you must use replacement dice from the table. While this game might seem easy, it can be quite the challenge! My daughter and her bestie ate always doing homework together but studying is harder and longer than regular homework.

Thanks for the tip! Hi, very nice game and article. I have a question about the rules. How the game will over? Do you have copies of the fraction tops that are in the diagram or a source of where i can get it? This idea is awesome! I am a first year teacher and I am really looking for ways for my second graders to have fun while they are learning. Thank you so much and I look forward to more ideas from you.

Love this! Thx Tina. I am a second-year teacher and on of my first-year colleagues told me about this game. I love how organized your page is, I figured I might as well contribute my idea to the comment pool.

I also provide typed instructions for the students, so that they know what operations to perform when using the KABOOM set that I made for any operation they just have one number written on them. I made a wonderful little place value set where I used two different colors to write the numbers.

Blue numbers were intended to be the number that they would name its place value or value, but I also ended up changing the directions so that the blue numbers were also the place value to which they rounded a number during our rounding centers.

Love it. I love the Crystal Light containers idea for storage. Where do you write the answers for the multiplication facts? How do they know if their answer is right or wrong? What would go on the actual popsicle sticks? HI, This looks wonderful and so flexible. I was just wondering how well it works when you stick a picture on the stick and then need to pull it out, does it ever jam or the pictures tend to fall off? Any tips? This is the best game ever!!! My fifth graders LOVE it!

I made it this year for the first time and I need to make more….. They all want to play all the time! I can not wait to use this with my 4th Graders to help them with Multiplication Fluency! I have a ton of Pringles cans from another project that will serve as my storage for them! Thanks for sharing your great idea! How would you recommend using this with vocabulary words? I love this game!! How do you use them for ELA?

I am struggling with how to do that. How do you play this exactly with vowel sounds? What is written on each colored stick and what do the students say once the stick is pulled? Will use this game in my basic skills classroom for Morpheme Study. Students have such a hard time remembering what prefixes mean and how suffixes change words. Since recall is the number one step toward using the morpheme strategy to analyze unfamiliar words, this game will allow for plenty of non-boring practice.

For example I have one group who have about 2 alphabet sounds each and no sight words. I love this idea, thanks for sharing. Where did you find the pictures of the fractions? I know there is a lot of fraction clip art on Teachers Pay Teachers, and I likely used a set from there!

You could do it showing collections of place value blocks, expanded form, greater than less than manipulating the digit order to understand the value of each place…etc. I teach math in grade 7 to 9. I try to use it for teaching my student. I just made a couple sets for my almost 3 year old on colored popsicle sticks—shape set and letter set writing on both sides of the stick at the bottom. She loves it! I grew up playing games with my family all the time and super excited to find one she understands.

Thanks for the fun idea! My suggestion would be to write words with that feature and the students read them when they pull the stick. Do you just have a resource with your Kaboom games? I used to have them […]. Your email address will not be published.

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