Language Learning with Broken Hearts

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For Valentine's Day, we changed things up a little.  One of the fun activities that I did for my son was a set of "broken hearts" with homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms.  I made a whole bunch of hearts in three colors and cut them in half.  Each type was done in a different color so he could tell them apart.  He had to match up the two words that go together like little puzzles.  It really helped him to understand the concept.  He also learned a few new words in the process. Plus, we had fun doing it. together. 

Here are the words I used:

Synonyms (words that mean the same/similar thing)

job-work

flower-blossom

scared-afraid

mad-angry

nice-kind

know-understand

child-kid

wealthy-rich

laugh-giggle

boat-ship

lots-many

wish-want

quick-fast

start-begin

very-extremely

terrific-wonderful

Antonyms (words that are opposites)

weak-strong

over-under

hate-love

open-close

big-small

stop-go

tall-short

slow-fast

clean-dirty

give-take

up-down

good-bad

old-young

night-day

boy-girl

alive-dead

Homonyms (words with the same sound, but different meaning)

paced-paste

would-wood

new-knew

fair-fare

have-halve

rain-reign

ant-aunt

lay-lei

bald-bawled

idle-idol

aloud-allowed

I'll-aisle

your-you're

or-ore

marry-merry

sail-sale

You could do this concept with lots of other things, too-  matching up the same words or letters for beginning readers, math facts problem on one half, answer on the other...