#1) Musical instruments. Anything will work, but drums and maracas are my personal favs. Just tap out (or shake if you’re using maracas) the individual sounds as you hear them. How about making these DIY maracas if you want to sneak in some language goals too? No musical instruments? No problem! Drum on the table or clap your hands.
#2) Bean bags. Throw them into a bucket as you say the word broken down into its individual parts. For the word balloon, you’d toss 2 bean bags- one bean bag for “buh” and another for “loon”.
#3) Legos. Put pieces together with a different colored piece representing its own syllable. Here is
an example of what you’d come up with for the word, “pineapple”.
#4) Beads or pasta. Have your students retrieve the number of beads/pasta to match the number of syllables in a given word. To make it extra fun, provide some string to let them make a necklace to take home.
#5) Balloon pop. Blow up some balloons, grab a pin, and pop away! Have the student pop the number of balloons that correlates with how many syllables a word (or group of words) has. To minimize the number of balloons used, I suggest grouping words together for this one. Another tip- I also only use a few puffs of air and keep the balloons small and I tape them to a piece of cardboard for stability.
Bonus Idea:
Syllabugs! This activity comes with 88 word cards (ranging from 1 to 5 syllables) and some cute visuals. Students put the bugs in the bug trap or butterflies in the jar as they determine how many syllables are in each word. You can grab that in my TpT Store, here.
How do you like to work on syllable awareness? Have you tried any of these ideas?
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