Hopscotch is an old "girly" past time, played on a black top with chalk. But who says you can't use the concept of hopping and jumping to learn how to spell.

This is a great station or classroom activity for all elementary grades.

You can use it for short, long and rhyming words. 

On floor dots or on card stock paper write down the word you would like the child to spell out on one dot  and then put all the rest of the individual letters in the word and some extra on the rest of the 10 or so dots or card stock. Have the children line up and hop on each letter saying the letter aloud as they land on it.  For the hopscotch below the child would say " C, A, T" and then jump on Cat and say that aloud "CAT". They may only hop on one letter per line.

Picture for example:

4               CAT

3           Q    R    T

2             A     G

1                 C

You can change the words up, you can change what the child has to do when they get to the dot (jump with one foot, hop on dots with two feet together, say each letter aloud when on it, ect.)

This is also a great progressive activity where the children can start to make the games up for themselves and peers. 

An activity that needs little space, little materials, but get children moving, spelling and working on coordination and balance all at the same time!!!