Sounds weird, doesn't it?
Fly Swatter Word Game
What the heck is that?!

Well, Carrie is 4 on Sept 27th.  The girl is scaring me with her spongy brain.  She knows her letters, sounds and knows how to sound out words and even spell a couple.

Carrie is also a very wiggly, active child.  She can do 4 puzzles in a row for 30 minutes, sitting quite still.  After that?  She's on the move!

So I made up a game.

I used an excel spreadsheet and on one column I wrote the following words in their own "box" or cell:
hat, mat, cat, rat, bed, net, pot, pup, cup
then I found clip art that matched the words

I enlarged it and printed it
I had Carrie practice her cutting skills and cut  out the words and picture in each "box"
She accidentally cut a few, but nothing a glue stick can't fix.
Then after she cut them out, I took cardstock and cut it into pieces a little larger- and we pasted the word on a piece of cardstock, and then pasted the picture on another.
(So there is a matching "card" - word with picture)

Okay, so I took it to Office Max where I had them laminate it.  $4 for the laminating and they are super laminated.  Holy cow, I had no idea it would be thick and hard!  Nothing can destroy these things!

So then we bought 3 fly swatters.

I put tape on the smacking side of the fly swatter.
I laid the clip art cards on the floor side up.
I put the word cards face down in a pile.

For each turn, we drew a card and each person got a turn to find their matching picture card and smack it with the fly swatter, causing the card to "stick" to the fly swatter.

After a while, we didn't take turns, we would race each other.  (Mommy lets Carrie win most of the cards.)

This game is two days old, and just tonight, we played it in reverse.
We had the word cards spread on the floor and drew the picture cards.
I watched as Carrie would move her swatter over to "bat" and then hesitate and sound out the word, and then find the correct word, "bed."

A wonderful game. 
If she needed help learning letters I could use that to.
You could use any matching cards- math, letters, Q and A for a test, whatever!

And it is much fun!