Spelling with Gummy Letters

We are working on Blends and so I had the kids come up with words that contained Blends.  They had to use a gummy letter in each word and underline the blend in the word.  When I saw that they had done this correctly then I gave them another consonant.  If they couldn't come up with a real word then they could make up words.  If the blend was wrong then we talked about why it was wrong and then crossed it out on the table.