Word Family Fishing Game

Ready to go fishing? Even if you don’t have anywhere close to catch fish, you can have fun right at home fishing for words. This might not initially sound like a lot of fun; but, believe me, kids will have a ton of fun. All you need to do is use masking tape to add the ending of the word families you want to work on to the handles of the plastic fishing nets. Then, write words for each word families on pieces of tape and attach them to the ping-pong balls. Now kids can go fishing for word families!

Hope on over to I Can Teach My Kids and read all about how Jenae made this Word Family Fishing game.

Looking for more Fish themed crafts? Check these out

Kids Craft: Paper Plate Fish — CraftBits.com

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Paper Plate Fish Tank — CraftBits.com

Jellyfish Craft — CraftBits.com

CD Fish — CraftBits.com

Clay Fish Magnets — CraftBits.com

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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