If you have an emerging reader in your house then this is a project for you! Both fun to make and fun to play with, these sentence sticks will be a hit with your little one!

Things you’ll need:
Jumbo Popsicle Sticks
Acrylic paint
Velcro strips
Craft glue
Permanent Marker

Things to do:
1. On a covered work surface, paint the craft sticks in three (four or five for more advanced readers) colors.


2. Once the paint is dry, neatly print words onto the sticks. Choose one color for articles, one for nouns and one for verbs (and one for adjectives/adverbs for more advanced readers).

3. Cut pieces of Velcro to fit the ends of the sticks. Glue- or stick on if your Velcro is stick on- the soft part of the Velcro to the top side of one end of the sticks and the rough side to the underside of the other end.

4. Once the glue is dry, set to work making sentences!