A Fun Halloween Phonemic Awareness Activity

Two kids away at college and the other at a birthday party.  What’s a mom to do?  Go SHOPPING!  No mall for me, though, just a quick jot over to the Dollar Tree and a stop at Walmart for wiggly eyes (super cool project for an upcoming post).  While at the Dollar Tree, I found these adorable Frankenstein sippy cups.  They were practically jumping off the shelf into my hands begging to be made into a project.  So here’s what I came up with.

The activity is phoneme segmentation activity where students name the picture, segment the sounds (“ant” /a/ /n/ /t/) and place the picture in the correct cup with the number of sounds (2, 3, or 4).  To make this activity you will need 3 sippy cups (if you can’t find Frankenstein, pumpkins will work fine too), 15 pipe cleaners (can use popsicle or large craft sticks) and your glue gun.

1.  Print the following pdf on card stock and cut out the pictures.

Click the following link to download the pictures for this activity Phonemic Awareness Halloween Activity

2.  Glue a number on the top of the plastic straw.

3.  If you choose to use pipe cleaners, double-up the pipe cleaner 3/4 the way down.  I only chose to use pipe cleaners because I had them on hand (and the colors matched).  Craft sticks would work just as well.

4. Place glue on the top of the pipe cleaner and adhere the picture.

It’s always fun to put a holiday twist on your small group activities.  I think the students are going to love this one!