Give the Bumble Bees their Stripes A CVC Words Activity for Preschoolers & Kindergarteners

May 3, 2023 | DIY Crafts & Activities | 0 comments

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Here is a simple activity you can try at home to work on :

Reviewing letter sounds
Blending
CVC words
Fine motor skills
Hand-eye coordination
Concentration

Give the Bees their Stripes

What you will need to recreate this simple activity:

Learning journal
Construction paper
Pencil
Markers
scissors
Glue

How to put this simple CVC words activity together:

Step 1: Draw the outline of the bees in your journal. When adding the wings, make them big enough so that you can write CVC words across them.

Step 2: Use a yellow marker to colour the body of the bees and a black marker to outline them.

Step 3: Cut black construction into stripes for your little ones to add to each bee.

Step 4: Use a white chalk marker to write the letters for each CVC word onto the stripes.

Your simple, fun learning activity is ready!

Grab some glue and let the learning fun begin!

When working with your little one, let them:

Identify the letters in each word.
Make the sound for each of the letters.
Clap for each sound, tap for each sound, get creative!
For those littles still working on confidence where their knowledge of letters and their corresponding sounds are concerned, have them tell you the name of objects that also start with a particular sound.
Read the words

I always like to share the importance of the skill we are working on and why with any activity I share to help parents at home.

What are CVC Words?

CVC words are the building blocks of reading and writing for kindergarteners or young children. CVC means consonant-vowel-consonant. These are the first words that our littles will read by decoding, otherwise known as sounding out.
CVC words, along with some sight words, will make up most text your little ones will encounter that makes sense to them because they are phonetic and have no tricky sounds or rules because each letter makes its phonetic sound. So your little ones can apply their letter knowledge in order to decode words which, if your child is like my girls, develops their confidence.

This activity can be recreated to work on the following:

Letters
Numbers
Shapes
Sight words
Addition

We do hope you find this activity useful.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by sending us a message or visiting us @learning.stepbystep on Instagram, Learning Step By Step on Facebook and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for educational resources that will help you and your littles on their learning journey as they continue to Learn Step By Step!

Thank you for being here!

Kimberlee and the Learning Step By Step Team.

CVC Word Stories On our Youtube Channel

Our word families stories will help your little ones learn to read by using their knowledge of letter sounds. When little ones learn word families, they learn numerous words that share spelling and sound patterns. In this video, your little ones will learn to read Short ‘a’ CVC words ending in ‘at’, ‘ad’, ‘am’ ‘, ap’, ‘an’, and ‘ag.’