I’ve been looking for another way to help Jadziah with her phonics and Declan with his spelling.. I think I found it. Paint Chip Phonics.. you can see a great version of it at Snail’s Trail. After you check that post look around..it’s an amazing blog! Here’s another example Satori Smiles. As always I looked.. thought.. then tweaked.

I love the paint chips..BUT we didn’t have the ones with the cut outs.. so we got the big ones, I made a template and cut my own openings. I wanted big ole openings and letters. I also decided NOT to use the 2nd set of chips( with the beginnings). Instead I made my own on the word processor. I wanted to be able to laminate, and store them easier. Afterall I have lots of little hands that will be using them!

So.. here is the finished product…

I punched holes and put a ring thru so everything stays together.

All the paint chips:

on those 34 chips I wrote:

• ag
• ab
• ail
• ain
• ack
• ake
• am
• an
• ank
• ap
• all
• at
• ay
• eed
• ell
• est
• ew
• ick
• ight
• ill
• ine
• ing
• ink
• ip
• ob
• og
• ore
• ot
• out
• ow
• uck
• um
• unk
• y

Here are  the cards with all the beginning sounds:

this is what is on those:

Consonants:

• b
• c
• d
• f
• g
• h
• j
• k
• l
• m
• n
• p
• q
• r
• s
• t
• v
• w
• x
• y
• z

Blends:

• bl
• cl
• fl
• gl
• pl
• sl
• br
• cr
• dr
• fr
• gr
• pr
• tr
• sc
• sk
• sp
• st
• sm
• sn
• sw
• spl
• spr
• str
• squ

Diagraphs:

• ch
• wh
• th
• sh
• ph
• thr
• shr

Here ( 4shared) is where you can download the PDF file if you chose to do them the way I did.

Here that are “in use”

The almost 6 year old has already gotten her hands on them and said “I like this mom” very high praise from her believe me!

I already received a question I think I need to post here..

Q:These are cool…how did you cut out the hole???