I’m a sucker for any kind of foam shape, so when I saw these foam eggs at Hobby Lobby last week, I grabbed a pack even though I wasn’t sure what I was going to DO with them.

Mr.4 is working on rhyming words in pre-k and is really blowing us all away with the speed he’s able to pick up sounding out new words. And after my plastic easter egg word family game was a total bust, I remembered the foam eggs and knew exactly how to use them!

I took a look at the pre-k Dolch sight words and decided to started with the twelve 3-letter words. I pulled 3 of each color foam egg and cut them into 3 different patterns. Then used a sharpie to write out each of the twelve words onto the eggs.

During brothers’ nap times we sat on the floor and worked out first making the puzzles.

Then identifying the letters and their sounds.

And lastly, putting it all together!

For a kid with a short attention span, we did this activity for almost 45 minutes and he asked me for it again the next day!

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