Dispense shaving cream onto each desk. Remind the children to keep fingers away from their eyes, mouth and nose during the activity. Demonstrate how to spread the shaving cream evenly on a desk and how to write in the shaving cream. The children write the spelling words in the shaving cream individually as each word is called out.
Provide a white crayon, white construction paper, a paint brush and diluted tempera paint for each child. Ask the children to write their spelling words with the crayon and paper. Demonstrate how the spelling words mysteriously appear by painting the paper with the tempera paint.
Provide a printed activity sheet and crayons for each child. Ask the children to trace the word "on" and then to complete a sentence by writing the word in a blank space. Children then color the word "on," which is provided in large block letters below the completed sentence.
Write each spelling word on a scrap of paper and place the scraps in a hat. Display the spelling words on a flip chart, white board or overhead projector. Include previously assigned spelling words and relevant holiday-themed words to total at least 24 words. Give each child a bingo card and ask the children to write a spelling word in each box on the card. Cover or erase the spelling word list. Ask a child to stand and turn her bingo card over to hide the words. Draw a spelling word from the hat for the child to spell. The children use a crayon to outline the square containing the word if the standing child spells the word correctly. The word goes back into the hat if the child does not spell the word correctly. Ask another child to stand and draw another word from the hat to continue the game. The game concludes when a child obtains five outlined squares in a row and shouts "Bingo!" The winning child stands and spells the outlined words. The child forfeits her win if she does not spell the outlined words correctly, and the game resumes.
Ask the children to find a spelling partner. Instruct one child to write the assigned words on his partner's back with his finger. Encourage the partner to try to identify the word and then spell it.