Christmas literacy activity : CVC words blender

Today’s post is about a simple booklet I have created to teach my preschooler to blend CVC words. I made a very similar one for my elder daughter when she was showing interest to read. Because everything is festive at this time of the year, I made the booklet in the Christmas light shape and made it a Christmas literacy activity.

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Materials needed to make this Christmas literacy activity :

1. Printer paper
2. Permanent markers
3. A card board. I used a pasta box.
4. Staples
5. Glue
6. Aluminium foil (Optional)
7. Christmas light template (Optional)

Preparation:

Fold printer paper in half and then in half. Draw the light in the front page. I drew the light free hand. Christmas light templates are available in the internet. They can be used too.
Cut out the lights. Each sheet gave me 4 lights. I used 4 sheets of paper to create 16 lights. Repeat step 1 for all 4 sheets.
Color 3 lights with the permanent markers. These lights make the front cover of the booklet.
Write the vowels in 5 lights. That left me with 8 lights which I made into 2 groups for consonants. Hope my math is correct 🙂
Write the consonants. I choose B,R,S and L for the consonants before the vowels and D,M,N and T for consonants after the vowel.
Staples the 3 groups separately.
Cut out a rectangle from the card board which is slightly bigger than the size of the three lights.
Cover the card board rectangle with Aluminium foil. This step is optional if the blank card board does not bother you.
Glue the stapled lights to the card board in the order of Consonants, Vowels and Consonants.

Method to use:

The child has to blend the CVC letters to create the word. The first word for us is B A D. My daughter lifted the next paper in the vowel to make B E D and then B I D. If she has lifted the first consonants paper, she might have got R A D. Obviously there will be some words which are not real but this booklet gives practice to blend the words.