I have always been a huge reader for as long as I remember. The first books I remember reading were Berenstain Bears books. My Mom read them so much to me that I would memorize the stories and then I taught myself to read them myself. My love of books has continued into adulthood and I usually am always in the middle of reading a book – sometimes two!
I hope to pass my love of reading to my kids so we have started to build quite the library at home. My one year old twins love to look at books and for me to read stories to them during the day and my son always loves a bedtime story. Right now he is in Kindergarten and although he loves to be read to, he’s not that big into reading himself – yet! I’m always looking for fun ways to teach him his sight words and make reading fun.
Here are just a few ways that we make reading fun!
We always make sure to spell words on our fridge with magnetic alphabet letters!
When I saw this fun way to learn sight words thanks to Coffee Cups and Crayons, I knew we had to get out the light-saber to try ourselves! The next day? Hayden did fantastic on his sight word test!
Check out some of these other fun ways to learn letters and words from some of my favorite bloggers:
– Free Alphabet Printables
– Sight Word Game
– Learning Letters with Amazing Action Alphabet
– Encourage Reading with the Television
Another fun thing we did recently was make some delicious cereal bars with Alpha-Bits Cereal.
Did You Know?
Alpha-Bits has:
- Iron and zinc help to support healthy brain development
- 20g of whole grain per 30g serving*
- Excellent source of vitamin D and iron
- 12 essential vitamins and minerals
- No artificial flavors
- Contains nutrients that support healthy brain development**
** Read more about Alpha-Bits Nutrition Information
The Alpha-Bits Cereal Bars are SO easy to make and Hayden really enjoyed eating them too – he would exclaim out loud when he spotted a letter!
- ¼ Cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine
- 1 package (10.5 oz) of mini marshmallows
- ⅓ cup of sugar-sweetened soft drink mix
- 8 Cups of Alpha-Bits Cereal
- Optional: Alphabet Shaped cookies cutters
- Line a 13×9 inch pan with lightly greased foil.
- In a large bowl, microwave the butter on high for 45 seconds or until melted. Add the marshmallows and soft drink mix. Any flavor is fine we used fruit punch to make a pinkish color. Mix well.
- Microwave the marshmallow mixture on high for 1-1/2 minutes or until the marshmallows are completely melted and mixture is well blended.
- Stir in the cereal and coat well.
- Press the cereal mixture firmly into the prepared pan. Cool completely.
- With the cookie cutters, cut the cereal into 12-15 squares. If you don’t have a cookie cutter you can cut the letters out by hand with a knife.
- Store in an air tight container at room temperature.
It’s even a good snack for my girls too! All 3 of my kids enjoyed it as a mid-day snack and Hayden had fun spelling out his sight words with them.
I’m excited to be sharing some information with you soon about a partnership between Alpha-Bits and the Little Free Library! For now, make sure to visit Alpha-Bits online where you can check out more recipes and crafts.
What is a fun way you have taught your children how to read?
Disclosure: I received product for this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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My daughter is still in Pre- K and we are working on sounding things out. We have a magnetic board that is kiddo height that we have magnetic letters. I love the lightsaber idea!
I love Alpha BIts for that exact reason! I have bought them numerous times to play with more than to eat LOL.
I tried to get Red to eat this cereal (he loves letters). But he was so offended at the idea that he should EAT recognizable letters, only one piece ever hit his mouth!
Thanks for the darling alphabet recipe!!! Plus the lightsabor idea is DARLING! Thanks for the mention about the Amazing Action Alphabet books. I love easy and fun ways to teach kids how to read!
I remember the days when it was tough to get my daughter to want to read. It was such a struggle and fight. Now she loves it. My son is the one starting to read and we are always looking for fun ways to encourage him.
I’m not a Rice Krispie fan, so using Alpha Bits is a great idea for me! Adding it to my list of to-do this week!
I have never tried to make these bars with alpha bits, but I am sure they will be amazing!
What an awesome idea to help children with their site words. This would’ve really helped my younger daughter when she first begun to read since she had some trouble with her site words.
Oh, I love that light saber idea for practicing sight words, but more importantly, so will my son! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the Little Free Library, too. My dream is to have one in our front yard someday soon!
We have an alphabet foam mat so my little ones would hop to the letter I would call out…another fun way to learn
I didn’t know they still made Alpha-Bits. I loved those when I was a kid. Those bars look really tasty. I bet any child would love to take a bite out of one!
YUM. I bet they have a great texture since they are crunchier than rice cereal
I’m always trying to find ways to incorporate letters into our day to day routine. This is a great idea. I had no idea this cereal existed! Thanks for sharing.
I haven’t had Alpha-Bits since childhood. Sweet T knows all her letters so she’d have fun eating them for breakfast.
This is a fun recipe! I actually think my Mom used to make the exact same thing with Alpha Bits when I was a kid!
we just explore sounds and letters and words all the time. my kids are all so eager to know how to read! i’m lucky
Those look awesome! My daughter just said “Mama, I want you to make those!”
Sight words with a light saber is an excellent idea for my Star Wars loving boys!! I haven’t ever purchased Alpha Bits but it would be a great, fun learning tool for my littlest (and a good excuse to buy to make these yummy treats too)! 🙂
What a great post! I LOVE your idea of learning site words with a light saber! What a fun a creative way to learn!
Aww how cute is this! What a fun idea to get kids interested in reading (and eating.. yum!)
This is such a great idea, my daughter would love it. I never thought of using Alpha bits before. Going to try this out.
These are such creative ideas! I love the treats!
My little guy loves books and we always find new ways to make reading fun. We’ll have to try those Alpha Bits Cereal Bars…they look yummy and I know he’d love them!
We have magnet letters on our fridge that really encourage our boys to try to spell out words. My hubby gave them an old keyboard from broken computer and they have fun typing out words on that as well.
The more we can do to make learning fun and entertaining, the more kids will want to do it. It doesn’t matter what we are teaching kids, we must make it fun.
What a great idea for learning words! We have always used the letter Spaghetti-Os lol
Whatever it takes to get them to read and learn words. Great idea!
We still have Berenstein Bears books around here! And I remember those refrigerator magnets very well!
My kids loved making words at breakfast with their cereal! Great ideas on fun ways to learn!
This Aloha-Bits cereal bars look tasty. I’ll have to make them for the grandkids some time.
Such a great idea! Also, those bars look really good!
I haven’t seen Alpha Bits in a good long time. I’ll have to look for them specifically when we go shopping. I think the youngest would love it!
Those Alpha Bit bars are so cute. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Those cereal bars look good! I bet the kids think those are really fun!
Those Alpha Bits cereal bars look yummy! I love that the boxes have Super WHY! characters on it. That show really does encourage little ones to read.
I love the lightsaber idea! What a fun way to get kids reading
Alpha Bits is one of my fave cereals to this day. I love it!!! So tasty!
These are some really good ideas. I will have to share these with my friend who works with his grandson and his reading.
Very cool! Love all the ideas for working on sight words. I’m working with my son on sight words now. These ideas will definitely come in handy.
Making reading fun for kids is so important. Reading will impact every single class in school. I love the ideas.
haha, you definitely have boys! My boys would love attacking the words with a light saber! Fun idea!
I didn’t know that they still made Alpha Bit cereal. These bars look really good.
what is the sugar sweetened soft drink mix is that like kool aid? I want to make these they look yummy. I used alpha bits when I was teaching first grade.