This Sight Word Water Balloon Toss is a fun way to cool off and practice sight words! Keep reading to get the fun details of how to play!

School is out for the summer, but we want to prevent that dreaded summer slide right?  To help with that, I came up with a fun game, sight word water balloon toss.  The kids can play outside and can also practice their reading in a fun way.

THIS ACTIVITY WORKS WELL WITH

Supplies

A pack of water balloons and a tub to put them in when filled Another great option would be to use sponges or make sponge balls. (There are a ton of great tutorials for them on Pinterest.)

Sidewalk chalk

To Play

To play the sight word water balloon toss game, first, write the sight words that you want the kids to practice on the sidewalk with chalk. I let my kids choose the words and we practiced spelling them together. They chose to draw circles around each word so it was more like a “target”.

Next, fill up your water balloons. When you’re ready to play, have each kid take a water balloon and choose a sight word they want to aim for.

Have them read the sight word aloud and then they can try to toss the water balloon on the word.

If you have multiple kids playing, have them take turns until all of the sight words are read aloud and splattered. If you have water balloons left, move to another area and play all over again!

If you’re looking for more water fun, we practice our math in this blog post you can check out here.

Having water fun and still learning makes it a perfect summer activity!

I’ve teamed up with a few other educational bloggers to give us some more fun summer activities to help keep us learning. Hop over to You’ve Got This Math for a fun outdoor math activity!

See you next time!

Jenette