As my kids have graduated from the larger building blocks to smaller Legos we have been left with excess blocks taking up a lot of room. A great way I've found to to reuse our old Megabloks and Duplo blocks is by repurposing them as sight word blocks. I looked up the list of Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Words and was able to label enough blocks with letters to practice almost all the Dolch pre-primer words. If I had more 2-4 piece longer block we would have enough to practice all the pp words. You have the option of writing the letters and words on return address labels to stick to the blocks, or write directly on the blocks with a sharpie. We chose to write directly on the blocks because we have a little one in the family who loves to pull off stickers. Plus, the best part about writing directly on the blocks with a sharpie is that if you make a mistake or want to use them for something else, all you have to do is rub the dried permanent marker lettering with a dry erase marker and the permant market print will erase. The permanent marker will eventually doc off on its own, but it's easily reapplied. I even used black blocks and wrote letters with a white chalk marker. In order to build as many sight words possible, I labeled the fronts and backs of the blocks. Later on after your kids (or students) get the concept of sight words you can add worksheets and other games into the mix with the blocks.
I also wrote out my children's names and some other phonics words on the longer blocks to help develop sentence structure down the road. The blocks also store perfectly in our repurposed animal cracker container! If you don't have any old blocks laying around, the Target Dollar Spot often has a $3 bag of larger building blocks that would work.
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