The Garden Gate – An enjoyable, floral spelling activity
You appreciate beautiful flowers, don't you? I certainly do. Do you know who else enjoys beautiful flowers? Many animals, such as deer, chipmunks, birds, and others. But they don't just admire them, do they? They like to eat them! Oh no!
 
We need to protect our flowers by placing them behind the garden gate where our hungry friends can't reach them. Each time you correctly spell one of your review words, you can save the flowers by sliding the card through the garden gate and into the garden. No flower-eating critters are allowed in the garden, right?
 
Are you ready to protect our flowers so we can enjoy a beautiful flower garden? Fantastic! Let's begin spelling and saving our lovely flowers!
 
Instructions for The Garden Gate Activity
Prepare the Activity
Print the scene of The Garden Gate.
Cut along the lines so the gate can open.
Print the flower-pot and animal cards along with the spelling cards. (Print the pages back-to-back or attach them together with tape or glue.)
Instructions for Spelling Practice
For any level of All About Spelling, print pages 3-6.
Cut the cards apart and stack them with the illustrations facing down.
Have your child pick a card. Dictate a word from your child’s current All About Spelling lesson (or a review word) and ask them to write it on the blank line. If the spelling is correct, have them flip the card to reveal either a flower pot or an animal. If it shows flowers, your child can slide it through the gate into the garden. If it shows an animal, it stays outside the gate, away from the flowers!
Keep selecting cards until all the flowers are safely inside the garden.