1. Phonics Hopscotch: Make the board using vowels or the consonants you are studying. Have your child throw a marker on a square. The child will hop over that square and onto the remaining squares per hopscotch rules. As the child hops on the square have her say the sounds of the letters.
2. Spelling Hopscotch: Make a board with letters that will make simple words. For instance, use the letters like “a”, “t”, “c”, “s”, “m”, “b”, and “f”. Instead of a marker you will need to make a die with words such as “cat”, “bat”, and “sat”. The child will roll the die and hop on the letters that spell the word while reciting the letters and ending with what the word spells.
3. Math Hopscotch: Make a board with equations such as “1+1”, “1+2”, or “2+2”. You can also use subtraction. Have your child throw the marker on a square. Then, have your child solve the problem in the square the marker landed on. If the answer is correct then have your child proceed with hopscotch jumping over the square the marker landed on.
4. Color Hopscotch: Make a board making each square a different color. Then have your child throw a marker on a square. As your child hops on the squares avoiding the one with the marker have her say the name of the colors. For a variation make the board with secondary colors. Then make a die with two colors on each side such as red and blue. If your child rolls red and blue then she will hop over the purple square since red mixed with blue makes purple.
5. Letter Recognition Hopscotch: Instead of numbers make the board with letters. Have the child throw a marker on a square and as she avoids that square she is to say the letters she is hoping on.