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1. Action Race: This is a game that the children absolutely love. Using actions like run, jump, clap, run etc. the children race from one point to another. Have the children split into two teams and sitting in two rows on the floor with a chair in front of the first person in line. One student from each team stands up beside his/her chair and when you yell out an action, e.g. jump! the children must then jump all the way to the other side of the room and back to their chair. When the children come back and sat they must say I can jump! First student to get to their chair wins a point for their team. I like to give an extra point if they say the sentence properly too, that way you can even out the points, and everybody wins, this is especially important to the younger kids. 2. Airplane Competition: First, have your students make paper airplanes. Stand the students in a line, side by side and let them test fly their planes. For the competition assign different classroom objects for the children to hit with their planes. I use this game also when learning the body parts and various other themes, have the students try and hit the specific part you tell them to. You can also ask a question first and only if they answer correctly are they given the chance to fly their plane. All these work well in teams, and my kids love it. 3. All Aboard The Colour Train: This game is best for the really young kids. Make different coloured train tickets and laminate them. Hand out the colours to the children and loudly say All aboard the colour train! Randomly pick a colour. The children must give you that coloured ticket to board the train. Have the children join face to back each with their hands on the shoulders of the children ahead of them. Move around the room making train noises, to music is best. 4. Animal Noises: (This game is great if you have the book Inside the Barn in the Country Cut out farm animals and laminate them. Make some headbands and put Velcro on the backs of the cut out animals as well as on the fronts of the headbands. Take the same animal images used for the headbands and make large versions of them, laminate them and put them on the board. Give each student a headband and an animal. (If you have a copy of the book Inside the Barn in the Country, read it to them, but any animal story will work, whether it be Old MacDonald or Goodnight Gorilla) Have the children sit in a row facing the front of the class. Go through the animals on the board, reminding the children what noise each animal makes. Now start the game. Each time you point to an animal, have the child with that animal on their headband stand up and make that noise. The first time it is best to go slowly, but the fun of the game is to go faster and faster. As you go through the list the children get better and better, so then you can ix up the order of the animals so they dont know which to expect. The faster you go and the more you mix it up, the more mixed up the children become, and the funnier it is for both you and the children. 5. Animal Race: You will need a bigger space for this game. Have your children sit in a row facing the front of the room. At the front of the class, place two chairs side by side about a meter apart. These chairs should be on one side of the front and have the same on the left side so that there is lots of room between them. Pick two children and have them sit on the chairs. The goal of this game is not about who the fastest animal is, but who the best animal imitator is. Tell them to slither like a snake, hop like a rabbit, swim like a shark etc Be sure to yell One, Two Three. Go! The children will leap from their chairs and race across to the chairs on the other side. Have the rest of the class judge who the best animal was and write their name on the board. At the end of the round have the best animals race each other. This game also is also great when learning about transportation e.g. fly liker an airplane, etc 6. Ball Pass: Alphabet Ball Pass: Have your children sit in a circle. Pass a balloon or a ball around the circle. Have each child recite the letters of the alphabet one by one. Once the letters have all been said try and have the children each recite the letters, but not only their letter but all the letters previously said. Various Noun Ball Pass: This game is played the same way, but instead of letters, use the words; it is a great way to review. You can use the days of the week, the months of the year etc
14. Blindfold Guessing: Blindfold a student and have them guess what they are touching. This works great with little plastic animals and toy fruits. This is a great way to review, stationary, classroom objects etc 15. Blindfold Guess Who: Have the children sit in a circle. Have one child sit in the center, blindfolded. The children then one by one say Who am I? and the child in the middle guesses who it is talking. I usually have each child guess from about three different voices. 16. Body Parts Touching Game: Have two decks of cards. Each card should have a part of the body on it; the more parts there are the better. Separate the class into two or more teams. One child comes up to the front at a time and picks a card from each pile. The child then must try and touch the body part shown on one card with the one shown on the other. Obviously some of these will be near or completely impossible, but they will also be very amusing. Every success, or near success, wins a point for
37. Island Hopping: Make a series of oversized laminated flashcards. The cards should be large enough to stand on. Give each child a number of cards, depending on the number of students and the size of the classroom. Have the children one by one place a card on the floor and stand on it. The student is only allowed to stand on the card if they know the word for the image they are to stand on. The student to get through their cards first wins. This game can be used to review any words you have been teaching at that period of time. 38. I Went to a Picnic and I Brought: This game is great for all ages, and can be played with all different sorts of topics, whatever you happen to be teaching at the time. You start off by saying I went to a picnic and I brought... an apple. The next person then says the same, but adding their own food that they brought. You continue going around the class adding to the list of things you brought to the picnic. I went to a picnic and I brought an apple, a pear, some cola, some pizza, a hamburger etc. If someone stumbles then they are out. It gets really fun when the list becomes long and even the people who are out; enjoy watching the other students struggle with trying to remember what they brought. I also play this game with animals; I went to the zoo and saw: a bear, a zebra, and a giraffe. To make it even more fun, sometimes I have my students act out the sounds and actions of that particular animal. At first they always feel shy, but they do get into it and when we try and get a tempo going, speeding the game up, it really becomes silly. 39. Letter Puzzle: Cut out and laminate the letters of the alphabet, to make it easier, I coloured all the letters differently. Cut up all the letters into two or more pieces and hand them out to the kids. Call out the letters in alphabetic order and have the kids come up with their pieces and put the letter together. Sometimes having an example of the letter on the board is helpful too. 40. Letters, Whats Missing?:
61. Puzzle Relay Two teams; two people from each team run down to the board and construct a puzzle showing a picture of a vocabulary word. When they have finished they put up their hands and answer the question What is it? by saying the word. For K1: puzzles have only 2 pieces. Or build a face with eyes, nose and mouth. 62. Bouncy Pet Race Two people bounce their way down to the other end and say the vocabulary word, then bounce back and the first team done wins. Or weave in and out of cones or other obstacles down to the end where they say the new word and run back. 63. River Mat Race Two people cross the river with mats and say the vocabulary word, then cross the river again and pass it onto the next person. 64. Duck Duck Goose Sit in a circle and one student pats the others on the head and pronounces one word. When they say the other word, that person must get up and chase the first person around back to their seat. The second person is now the one who says the word.
65. Red Light, Green Light Students line up at one end of the room, teacher at the other end holding a red and green sign. Teacher turns her back and says Green light and the students may move forward. Suddenly the teacher spins around saying Red Light! and the students must freeze. If the teacher sees any of
77. Concentric Circles Q&A Good for a large group, for practicing simple questions and answers. The inner circle faces out, the outer circle faces in. The students link elbows and each has a partner. The inner partners ask a question (What is your name?) chorally, and then the outer partners answer chorally. 78. Musical Letters
79. Ladders: Children sit with feet straight in front of them with another child opposite whose feet will touch the others child. Children sit in lines with legs together and a space between each pair (see diagram. Dont laugh too much). Then give each pair a vocabulary word or number Teacher calls out the words then the pair have to stand up and run up the line, jumping over the legs of the other children then back to their place. First child sitting down is a winner. Good for K3 and also works for K2 but only if you have no more than 4 pairs otherwise they become confused.
80. Mr. Lion: - Similar to Mr. Fox only good for food. Place food items or flashcards at back of classroom. Children come to Mr. Lion and ask What do you like? or What do you like to eat? He responds and children race to get Mr. Lion the item which he then eats. Mr. Lion can eat food, grandma, grandpa, teachers or his favorite children! 81. Stand up, Sit down. Useful for teaching phonics with K2 / K3. Teach them a sound e.g. /h/ as the H in house / hen etc. Then when I say a word with the /h/ sound e.g. house / hello, children stand up. If I say a word without the sound e.g. shoes then they sit down. It is fun to include the childrens names e.g. Henry to stand up or Isaac to sit down. 82. Hop around the hoops Place hoops with a vocabulary item placed under the side of each hoop. Children in pairs and have to hop around the hoops to the item shouted. Rest of class can guide them by telling the colour of the hoop (in English of course). 83. Phonics -> tic-tac-toe/connect 4. Two teams. Say the words to capture the square. Phonics -> draw two 2x2 grids. In first grid write in 4 different phonics. Do the same in the second box but in a different order. In two teams students have to race to touch the correct box. 84. Phonics -> say a word with the phonics sound = stand up, not a phonics word = sit down. 85. Heads Up 7-Up: several students come up to the front. Everyone else puts their heads down on their desk. The students standing can touch one person on the head. That student has to put their hand/thumb up in the air so they dont get touched twice. After they touch the students they go back to the front and students can put their heads up. The students touched have to guess which students touched them. The key to this game is to hang flashcards around the necks of the kids who are touching. 86. Roll dice: say word that many times while jumping. (also works for spelling) 87. Foam mat race: 2 squares per team, step on one and move the second to the front, race to say a word
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100 Children Games - Page 12 98. The Zoo Prepare 9 or 18 animal cards. 9 cards for each team, draw a tic tac toe grid on the blackboard Practise the word : on, below, beside, under, on top, left, right, centre 2 teams 1 student from each team. Teacher to say the name of the animal card and tell them where to put the card, student to identify the card and place it at the right grid. The Zoo
99. Typhoon blow Prepare 6 different color cards x 5 pcs. (base on the size of classes, number of student in the class). Whole class sit in a circle. Give different color card to each student to put in front of them. Typhoon no 1, big wind blow yellow( then all yellow has to change place) Typhoon no 3, big wind blow green and white (2 color cards) Typhoon no 8 (say 3 or more color cards) Can change to animal, fruit 100. Chopstick Use chopstick to pick up the cards then race to give the card to the teacher and say the word. Can use different theme ie body parts, fruit, animal flash cards.