Fishing for Rhyming Words – with FREE Pack

My daughter {age 3} has had a thing for rhyming words for a while now. She’s a little rhyming machine. Her rhymes crack me up, often because she makes up words just for rhyming sake. So, since she enjoyed our name fishing activity so much, I decided it was time to go fishing for rhyming words. Be sure to find the free printable at the end of this post so you can try this, too!

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Fishing for Rhyming Words

Before we played,

• I printed the sea animals and rhyming pictures onto cardstock. While I did not laminate the pictures, I did laminate the sea animals. In the pictures, you’ll also see the fish I re-used from our Alphabet Fishing and Name Spelling Activity.
• I placed our “ocean” {one that I made years ago out of blue poster board when I taught music} on the floor.
• I located our fishing poll from this puzzle.
• I clipped all the rhyming pictures to the backs of the fish with paperclips.

 

I modeled how to try and find a rhyming pair and then set her free to do it her way. After all, the goal of this game was to practice rhyming, not play by predetermined set of rules. She even decided that at times, she need to use both hands to go fishing!

 

Each time we turned over two cards, we’d identify the pictures out loud and I’d ask her if they rhymed. She’d either say “yes” or “no” and then she’d go fishing again until she found the one that rhymed.

 

Variation Ideas:

• Clip the rhyming pictures to the front of the sea animals so kids can see before they go fishing for rhyming words.
• Use all the rhyming pairs or only a few. I think we used 8 rhyming pairs, with 16 sea creatures total in our “ocean”.
• Make activity self-checking by placing rhyming pictures onto two identical sea creatures. For example, mail and pail could both go on a sea turtle.
• Clip rhyming words to the back of the sea animals instead. Just write the word on the back of each rhyming picture. Kids can turn over the words and check the pictures.

 

More Rhyming Fun:

• Rhyming Books for Kids
• Rhyming Books that You Can SING!
• Roll-a-Rhyme
• Rhyming Clip Cards
• DUPLO Match-a-Rhyme {more rhyming pictures you can use}
• Rhyme Time Pack {Pre-K/K Level}

 

 

{Download this Fishing for Rhyming Words Pack HERE.}

 

 

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~Becky