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1. Action Race: This is a game that the children absolutely love. Using actions like run, jump, clap, run etc. thechildren race from one point to another. Have the children split into two teams and sitting in tworows 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 mustthen jump all the way to the other side of the room and back to their chair. When the childrencome back and sat they must say “I can jump!” First student to get to their chair wins a point fortheir 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 letthem test fly their planes. For the competition assign different classroom objects for the children tohit 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 firstand only if they answer correctly are they given the chance to fly their plane. All these work well inteams, 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 laminatethem. Hand out the colours to the children and loudly say “All aboard the colour train!” Randomlypick 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. Movearound 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 andlaminate them. Make some headbands and put Velcro on the backs of the cut out animals as wellas on the fronts of the headbands. Take the same animal images used for the headbands andmake 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 itto them, but any animal story will work, whether it be ‘Old MacDonald’ or ‘Goodnight Gorilla’) Havethe 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 toan animal, have the child with that animal on their headband stand up and make that noise. Thefirst time it is best to go slowly, but the fun of the game is to go faster and faster. As you gothrough the list the children get better and better, so then you can ix up the order of the animalsso they don’t know which to expect. The faster you go and the more you mix it up, the moremixed 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 theroom. At the front of the class, place two chairs side by side about a meter apart. These chairsshould be on one side of the front and have the same on the left side so that there is lots of roombetween them. Pick two children and have them sit on the chairs. The goal of this game is notabout who the fastest animal is, but who the best animal imitator is. Tell them to “slither like asnake, hop like a rabbit, swim like a shark etc…” Be sure to yell “One, Two Three…. Go!” Thechildren 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 theround have the best animals race each other. This game also is also great when learning abouttransportation 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 saidtry and have the children each recite the letters, but not only their letter but all the letterspreviously 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…



100 Children Games - 7. Ball Passing (Buzz): This is a counting game. Have the students sit in a circle. The students pass around a ball whilecounting (1, 2, 3, etc…) When the number reaches 7 (or any random number) the student mustsay “buzz.” You can play this game in which any number with the number (let’s say 7) must bereplaced with “buzz” (7, 17, 27, 37, etc…) the other way to play is that with any multiple of the

number (let’s say 7) must be replaced with “buzz” (like 14, 21, 28, etc…)

8. Balloon pass:Have the children sit in a circle. While passing the balloon around have the children each say and

English word. At first it is best is the children just say any random English word that they know,but after a round or two, assign themes to the game.

9. Balloon Pass II:Have the children stand in a circle. Without using their hands, have the children pass around theballoon. If a child happens to use their hands or is unable to keep the balloon afloat, the childmust then say an English word. This game is great for reviewing words, themes and so on.

10. Basketball:This game works best when played in teams and lets the students take a shot (with a soft toy orball) at the trashcan or box. This game works best in teams. Ask a student from the first team aquestion, if he/she answers correctly; he/she gets a shot at the basket. If the student gets the ballin the basket he/she gets 2 points, if not they just get the 1 point from answering the questioncorrectly. The team with the most points wins.

11. Behind Your back:Before the game starts, show the class the series of flashcards you intend to use. Give a series of descriptions for each one. (This game can be played in teams or as a whole class depending on theage and so on.) Have one child at a time come up to the front. Using tape, stick the picture on thechild’s back. I have the children yell “Turn around!” and then the child turns around so as the classcan see the picture on his/her back. Have the children give descriptions as to what is on theirback. The child then has to guess what the picture is. (When playing in teams, you can give extra

points if it is guessed in less than three guesses. You can also play that if the other team happensto say anything, they lose a point.)

12. Blindfold Bell:I played this game with the children at Christmas time and called it “Blind Santa.” Have thechildren sit in a circle with one child in the middle. The child in the middle needs to be blindfoldedand as a bell gets passed from student to student the blindfolded child in the middle needs tocatch the bell. Depending on the age group, spinning the child around a bit first to disorient themis fun.

13. Blindfold Course:Make an obstacle course in your classroom (use desks, chairs, pillows etc…) put a blindfold on astudent and have the rest of the class guide him/her by using simple instructions (e.g. walk twosteps, turn right 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 eachchild 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 arethe better. Separate the class into two or more teams. One child comes up to the front at a timeand picks a card from each pile. The child then must try and touch the body part shown on onecard with the one shown on the other. Obviously some of these will be near or completelyimpossible, but they will also be very amusing. Every success, or near success, wins a point for



100 Children Games - his/her team. Another simpler way of playing this is to have two children come up and each picksa card. One child then has to touch the part shown on their card with the other child’s part (e.g.nose to knee, mouth to elbow.) Even though this game is very simple, my younger children love it.

17. Body Ball:This game is not a favorite with my co/workers, but it is definitely a favorite with my students.Have a deck of cards ready with pictures of various parts of the body on them. Have a child comeup and chose a card. Have the class tell you what it is a picture of and repeat it several times.

Then have the child stand behind the line and throw a very soft toy or ball at that part of yourbody. I give my students three tries and rarely do they even come close to hitting the right spot.(You can play this game in teams.)

18. Body Letters: You will need quite a bit of space for this game. Have the children lie on the floor and have themmake letters of the alphabet with their bodies.

19. Bugs Go Marching:Make some laminated bugs and have them so that you can Velcro or pin them to the children.When I made my bugs, I made them really colourful and silly looking, with stripes and polka dots…the sillier the better. Have the children pick out their bugs one by one and return to their seats.Have the homeroom teacher play the song “The Ants go marching” (or find a recording of it if youcan). I always start the marching while singing “The bugs go marching one by one hoorah,

hoorah…” While singing I march around the row of students seated in the middle of the room.When the next verse comes, grab a student and link them behind your back while singing the nextverse “The bugs go marching two by two….” Every time you begin the next verse, have anotherstudent ink on. Encourage the children to yell the “hoorahs” and the numbers, the louder thebetter. (Another suggestion, I don’t even know the words to the song, and the students don’t care.I fill the words with “bum-pa-da-da-da-da-da-da-da…”) It is the counting and the “hoorahs” thatare important.)

20. Chair Switch: For this game you will need to make a series of necklaces, each with an image as a pendant. Only3,4or 5 images are needed, since there should be many children wearing the same image.Whatever images you choose, you need to have a flashcard of them, along with one depicting allthe images you use on one card. On chairs, seat the children in a circle. Play some music andencourage the children to sing along. When the music stops, show one of the flashcards. All thechildren wearing that image must change seats, if someone ends up in the same seat they are out(for the younger kids, I have them write their names with their bum in the air, they think this ishilarious!) You can show two cards at a time, and all those children have to switch seats, but thefunniest is when you show the flashcard with all the images on it, because then they all have toscatter around switching seats, laughing, frantically.

21. Charades: There are so many different versions of charades I play with my kids. It’s a great way to review 9 Ilike playing charades because it lets my shier kids get a chance at more out going.) I play it withtopics such as: employment, emotions, vehicle, animal, insect, sport… the list goes on forever… allyou need are some flashcards.

22. Clapping game:Have all the children sit in a row or in a circle. Show the children a rhythm of clapping, (e.g. clap,knee slap, clap, and clap) and start the round by saying a word (it is best if you use themes:animals, foods etc…). The student next to you then has to, while keeping in the rhythm say a newword (within the same theme). If a child uses a word that as already been said, he/she is out forthat round.

23. Colour Circles: This is a great game for really young children. Get some pieces of paper and draw a large circle onthe inside of each one. Pin the circles on different walls of the classroom. Model the activity bysaying “Blue!” and take a blue crayon and walk over to one of the circles and colour a small part of the circle. Do this for each colour you plan to teach. Each child should have their own circle andtheir own crayons. When a colour is called out each child should colour that circle a bit.




24. Colour Bin: For this game you need to have 7 or 8 little bins, paper cups, whatever you like that will fit theobjects you decide to use. Each bin should represent a different colour, and should have thatcolour on the front of it. Have many different objects or pompom balls, several for each colour.Place all the objects on a table in front of the bins and ask the children in which bin each objectbelongs. I let the children put the objects in the bin themselves and loudly we all say what colourthat is. I also like to say “what colour is it?” and say the wrong colour, and try to place it in thewrong bin, this really gets a rise out of the children and keeps their attention.

25. Cross the River: Place flashcards on the floor in a winding manner. Each card represents a stepping-stone in ariver. As the students go across the river, they must say the name of the picture they are steppingon. You can play this game where you have two students racing across at the same time, eachfrom opposite ends, or one at a time in teams. This is a great game for reviewing.

26. Copy Cat:

Stand in front of the class and demonstrate different movements, have the students copy you.After you have acted out a few different actions such as shaking your hands around or flappingyour arms… invite a child to be the leader. One by one have the children come up, each moving indifferent ways and getting the children to copy them.

27. Directions:Draw a square grid on the board. Write a series of numbers or letters in the squares of the grid.Blindfold a child and have him come up and draw a circle around the correct number or letteraccording to the directions given by the rest of the class. This game is great for learning up, down,left, right.

28. Drawing Review:This game is great for reviewing vocabulary skills. Have two squares drawn on the board. Have thestudents write their names above the squares. The teacher then calls out a word and the studentsdraw it (it could be simple nouns e.g. “dog, ball, train…” or verbs e.g. “running, flying a kite,swimming…” or adjectives e.g. “a big elephant, a small mouse, a pretty girl…”) this game can beplayed in teams, the correct drawing wins.

29. Fetch and Say: Make two teams and have them sit at opposite ends of the classroom. Have two tables, each witha basket. In the basket have flashcards of different objects on them. Choose two children, havethem stand at the tables each with their basket and call out an object. The child must find theobject and run over to the board and stick it on. When they stick the picture on the board theymust yell “It’s a …” I give each team a point for saying the word correctly as well as a point to thefirst student to stick the picture on the board, this way you can even out the points and there areno sorry losers.

30. Funny Monster:Have a pre made face on a piece of paper, one for each child. Have a deck of cards with differentbody parts on them and a die. Have the children one by one come up and roll the die, as well aspick a card. Each time a card is chosen and a die rolled, the children must draw that on theirmonster, (e.g. an eye was picked and a 4 was rolled, the students must draw 4 eyes on their

monster.)

31. Grouping game: Hand out a series of laminated cards to the children. Have the children then group together in

pairs according to what card they have each been given. Tell the children all the motorcycles areto come to the front, then all the bused, and cars and so on. Encourage the children to say “Weare motorcycles,” and have them act like a motorcycle does.

32. Ha, Ha, ha:This is a contagious laughing game. Have the children lay in a zigzag formation. Each child lieswith their head on the stomach of the next. The first child yells “ha!” and the next child yells “ha,ha!” and so on. Each child adds a “ha!” and soon everyone is laughing. This game can also be usedto review the letters of the alphabet, numbers, whatever you chose to replace the ‘ha’ with.




33. Hot Potato Animal Charades:Have a series of animal flashcards ready in an envelope. Have the class sit in a circle on the floor.While playing some music pass around a potato (or a ball, anything will work). When the musicstops, in secret, show the child left holding the potato a flashcard of an animal. The child must act

out the animal while the rest of the class guesses what the animal is. Encourage the children toget on all fours and make animal noises.

34. I Am You Are: Sit the students in a circle or in a row. Start the game by saying” I am … You are…” The studentseach say “I am…”and then turn to the person next to them and say “you are…” (E.g. I am Eun Jin,you are Jae Won…”)This game can also be played by saying I am he is, or she is, he is etc… thegame can be sped up to make it more difficult. As simple as this game sounds, my childrenactually really enjoy it.

35. I Like …: Split the class in to two or more teams. Have 4 piles of flashcards ready on the other side of theroom, two for each team. One pile of cards has nouns on them, the other, adjectives (you canhave pictures or words, depending on the children’s level, e.g. fat, thin, or colours, yellow, red…)Tell one child from each team to go over on the count of three to run over and get a flashcardfrom each of their piles (2 cards). The students them must run back to you and tell you what theyhave in the form of a sentence e.g. if the student picks ‘orange’ and ‘elephant, they would then

say: “I like orange elephants.” The first child back should get a point for his/her team, but anotherpoint should be given f or the best pronunciation.

36. I love: Have everyone sit in a circle. This can be played with a ball, rolling it from one person to the next,or simply just by going around in order of how the children are seated. Start the round by statingsomething that you love (e.g. “I love ice cream”.) the next child then in turn sates what he/sheloves and so on. To make the game more interesting, have the children not only say what they

themselves like, but what the last child said that he/she liked (e.g. “She likes ice cream, I like hotdogs.”)

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 theclassroom. Have the children one by one place a card on the floor and stand on it. The student isonly allowed to stand on the card if they know the word for the image they are to stand on. Thestudent to get through their cards first wins. This game can be used to review any words you havebeen 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 youhappen to be teaching at the time. You start off by saying I went to a picnic and I brought... anapple. The next person then says the same, but adding their own food that they brought. Youcontinue going around the class adding to the list of things you brought to the picnic. I went to apicnic and I brought an apple, a pear, some cola, some pizza, a hamburger etc. If someonestumbles 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. Ialso play this game with animals; I went to the zoo and saw: a bear, a zebra, and a giraffe. Tomake it even more fun, sometimes I have my students act out the sounds and actions of thatparticular 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 lettersdifferently. Cut up all the letters into two or more pieces and hand them out to the kids. Call outthe letters in alphabetic order and have the kids come up with their pieces and put the lettertogether. Sometimes having an example of the letter on the board is helpful too.

40. Letters, What’s Missing?:



100 Children Games - This game works well if you have a series of magnetic letters, the kind you see on fridges whenyou were a kid, but laminated letters will also work. Put the entire alphabet on the board in orderand sing the alphabet song, making sure to go slowly over the ‘L, M, N, O, and P…” Have thechildren hide their eyes or cover the board. Remove a few letters and ask the children to tell youwhat is missing. Discovering what is missing really takes them a while, singing the song

repeatedly, and stopping at the missing letters really help.

41. Line Up True or False:Put a line of tape on the floor and designate one side the “true” side and the other to be the

“false.” Have all the children stand on the line. Hold up an object or a flashcard and say somethingabout it. The children then have to jump from one side, or the other. You can play this game inteams, count points or have the mistaken students sit out till next game.

42. Machine:This game is good for practicing and learning emotions and sounds. I usually have my students sitin a circle, as long as they are in a row of some sort it will work. Pick one student to start. Givethat student an emotion or a sound to act out. The next student then copies that sound or emotionand adds one to it, as does the next. It becomes a chain of sounds or emotions that become reallyfunny and complex. The students usually can’t remember what they have to do, and laugh a lot.

43. Matching games:There are so many different matching games I play with my children: Letter Matching Game:(Match the capitol letter to the minuscule letter.) Letter and Word Matching: (Match the first letter

of a word to the picture.) Animal and Baby Matching Game: (Match the mother animal to its baby.)Animal Tops and Bottoms Matching Game: (Match the tops and bottoms of animals.) FootprintsMatching Game: (Match the footprint of an animal to its owner.)

44. Animal Home Matching Game: (Match where the animal lives, barn, forest, jungle etc…)Employment Matching Game: (Match the job or gear to its employee.) Numbers Matching Game:(Match the written number to the roman number.) The list of possible matching games goes onand on. Whenever the children make a match, I like to clap my hands and we all yell “It’s amatch!!” The younger ones especially get really excited.

45. Memory game:I use this game all the time, when it comes to reviewing. Have large flash cards with a grid of 9 ormore boxes on them. In each box have a picture of something you are reviewing. Ask the children

if they are ready, ask them a few times to get them excited, and then quickly sweep the cardacross the front of the class. I do it very fast to begin with, but then I slow it down after a few. Askthe children what they saw, ask them what colour it was, ask them how many there were.

46. Mother may I?Tape rows of lines on the floor. Have the children line up, side by side behind the first line. Ask onestudent at a time a question (e.g. what does a cow say?) or show them a flashcard and ask themwhat it is. If the child answers correctly, then he/she can advance to the next line. The first childto reach the finish line wins. For the younger children, I make it so as they all win at the sametime, and for the older children, I have 3 or 4 winners. This game is a great fun way to do review.

47. Musical Animals:Cut out and laminate numerous animal shapes, larger enough to stand on. Play some music, andrandomly stop. When the music stops have the children find an animal to step on. Go around the

class and ask the children what animal they are stepping on and what sound that animal makes.You can play this game in the same way as you do musical chairs and remove one animal eachround, eliminating one child per round. I have also played this game where instead of a picture of an animal, I use only the silhouette of the animal; it makes it a bit more challenging for the older

kids.

48. Musical hugs: This game is very similar to musical chairs, except everybody wins. Play some music and have thechildren dance around. When the music stops, the children find one friend to hug (explain the hugsmust be gentle, nice hugs). You can make different rules, such as; when the music stops thechildren must find someone new to hug each time.

49. Pass:



100 Children Games - Sit the students in a circle. Hold up a flashcard and say what it is loudly (e.g. “pen”…”) Pass it onto the student beside you, who in turn repeats it and passes it on to the next child. To begin withit is best if you keep it slow, but it gets funnier the faster you pass out the cards. To make it evenmore confusing, try and switch directions you are sending the cards out.

50. Pictionary:Everybody knows Pictionary, and even though it is an old game, it is also an old favorite. Thisgame is great especially for doing reviews. Pick a student and show him/her a flashcard. Thestudent then must draw the picture on the board and the other children then try and guess what it

is he/she is drawing. This game is also great in teams.

51. Pin the Tail on The Animal:Have a laminated picture of an animal on the board. The animal should be missing a tail (or anose, ears, whatever you like.) I use Velcro to stick on the missing body part. One by one havethe children try and correctly stick the tail on to the animal; blindfolded and dizzy (I give thechildren a good couple spins to disorient them first.) This game is good for learning the parts of the human body, face, or just about anything and the children love it.

52. Scramble:Separate the class into two or more teams. Put the entire alphabet on the board in a scramble of letters here and there. Have one child from each team come up to the board, when ready yell outa letter. The first person to find and circle the correct letter wins a point for their team. This gamealso works for numbers, words, or even pictures.

53. Shopping: I play this game with my youngest class. They really respond to it even though it is really simple.This game can be used with a wide variety of objects or pictures of objects (plastic fruit and toyswork well). One by one, I ask a student “What do you want?” (Or depending on their levels of English “What do you like?” or, “What would you like?”)The students then choose from the objectsshown, and should in turn reply (e.g. “I want a banana:”, or “A banana, please”) I then say “Hereyou are” and hand them the item they have asked for. This game is great for teaching “please”

and “thank you” as well as reviewing objects. When all the objects are gone, you can then play the “May I have” or ‘Give me “ game.

54. Simon says:This is an old game, but always a good one. I use this game to review body parts (e.g. “Simonsays touch your knees”). You can change ‘Simon’ to your name to avoid confusion, or have thechildren each have a turn at being ‘Simon’ and change it to their names. When you give directionswithout saying “Simon says” then the children are not to do it, they are only to follow yourdirections if Simon says to do so. I play this game with objects in the classroom too. (I tell thechildren to touch he door, to lie on the floor etc…)

55. Snowballs:You should have these snowballs pre-made before class with wet tissues (if wet tissues are toomessy, anything heavy enough to fly that far will work, even paper airplanes). Have a series of flashcards on the board. Split the class into two or more teams. Have one child from each teamstand up behind a line. Yell out an object shown on one of the flashcards at the front. Whoevergets closest to hitting the correct object, scores a point for his/her team.

56. Telephone Game: This is an old game, but there are many versions I like to play with my children, and they reallylove it. The easiest variation of this game is to have all your children sit in a circle and whisper aword to the student sitting next to you, who in turn whispers it to the next child. The last personto receive the message says it out loud and it is usually completely backwards to what it was tobegin with. Another version of this game (which I prefer to play, because I teach ESL classes) is tohave the class separated into two or more teams. Have the students sit front to back in chairs in 2rows (everyone should be facing the board at the front, which needs to be a board they can drawon.) Whisper a word, or show the last child in each row a picture and have them in turn whisper itto the person in front of them the last child to receive the message then draws it on the board.The child who draws the correct object on the board wins a point for his/her team. I like to showeach team a different picture, so that they aren’t able to copy each other, or cheat by listening in.

57. There Is/There Are:



100 Children Games - To practice ‘there is’ and ‘there are’, give your children a list of questions. For the youngerstudents it is better to keep the questions limited to about the classroom. The older children, if allowed could run around the school, even the school yard to answer the questions you give them.The questions could be:How many windows are there in the classroom (or school)?

How many doors are there in the school?How many teachers are there in the school?How many classes are there in the school?How many students are there in the class?

How many chairs are there in the classroom?

58. Time bomb:For this game you need a timer (such as an egg timer or an alarm clock.) Set the timer and pass itto a student, ask him/her a question, once answered, have the child pass the timer to the nextstudent, in turn does the same. The student left holding the timer when it goes off loses a life, oris out for the game (for my younger children, I have them write their names in the air with theirbum, which they think is hysterical)

59. Tornado:Have a supply of flashcards made (question or picture on one side, numbers or letters on theother), ‘Tornado cards’ (flashcards with numbers or letters on one side and a tornado picture onthe other). Split the class into teams of two or more. Have the pile of cards at the front, picture(or question) facing down. Have a student come to the front and choose a card. If the card has a

picture or question on the card, the child then tells you what the picture is of, or answers thequestion. If the child answers correctly, then he/she draws a line to draw a house, if the child picksa tornado card, then they blows down their opposing team’s house. The first team to completetheir house wins.

60. What’s Missing? : Have a series of flashcards (depicting just about anything you are reviewing) made and stick themon the board. Give the children a few moments to memorize what is on the board, turn the board

around or cover it, and remove one of them. Ask the students “what’s missing?” if you are playingin teams you can play that the first student to guess what is missing wins a point for his/her team.There are many different ways I like to display the items, I have used a big fruit bowl and filled itwith fruit, or, a closet filled with clothes… the options are unlimited.

61. Puzzle RelayTwo teams; two people from each team run down to the board and construct a puzzle showing apicture of a vocabulary word. When they have finished they put up their hands and answer thequestion “What is it?” by saying the word. For K1: puzzles have only 2 pieces. Or build a facewith eyes, nose and mouth.

62. Bouncy Pet Race Two people bounce their way down to the other end and say the vocabulary word, then bounceback and the first team done wins. Or weave in and out of cones or other obstacles down to theend 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 theysay 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 theteacher spins around saying “Red Light!” and the students must freeze. If the teacher sees any of



100 Children Games - them move, they must return to the beginning. First one to reach the finish line (directly behindthe teacher) gets to be the stoplight.

66. Mr. Fox Students ask Mr. Fox “What time is it, Mr. Fox?” and Mr. Fox answers with a number “Four

o’clock”. Students take four steps forward. Mr. Fox can also answer with “Dinner time!” andchaos will ensue as the students scatter and Mr. Fox tries to grab one of them.

67. Word Game Relay

Hang up flashcards of new words on the board. Two students run to the white board and fill in themissing letters of a word (f_ow_ _ = flower) and run back to their team. The team that shoutsthe word out correctly first wins.

68. Alphabet Bodies Students use their bodies to make the letters: arms above the head for A, etc. and they can raceto see who can make the letter first when shown a flashcard or told which letter to become. K3can spell whole words, or lay on the floor and make giant letters (four to form a K, for example).

69. Pass Along Line Use two foam mats and a cardboard brick to make a sandwich (children chant “Sandwich!Sandwich!”) and they have to pass it over their heads to the person behind them, only holdingonto the outer parts. If the vocabulary word is letter, have a giant envelope that they have topass along using only their elbows to hold it (“Letter! Letter!”). This could be used for anything

that you have a big picture of on a card; students chant the word as they pass it along.

70. One Finger, One Thumb This is a chant that you keep adding onto. It begins, “One finger, one thumb, keep moving.” (Stick out your index finger and then thumb, then shuffle your arms as if you’re running) Addactions onto it: “One finger, one thumb, jump twice, keep moving.” “One finger, one thumb, jumptwice, sit down, keep moving.” Etc. etc.

71. Musical Chairs (K1) Yes.

72. Bowling/Fishing (K1, K2)The pins or fish each have a letter or number on them, and on a white board you can put the samenumbers or letters with flashcards of vocabulary words.

73. Matching card chair game (K1)As many students you have, set out that many chairs. Underneath or above the chair, fixflashcards of objects or letters. The students sit in a line and you hand out corresponding cards(the same ones, or A for apple, etc.) to them and then shout “Three, Two, One, Go!” and theyhave to sit on the correct chair.

74. Ball Pass Card Bucket game (K1)Students pass a ball or object around to music; when the music stops the one holding the ballmust run to the correct bucket and put the ball in (the teacher shouts out one of the vocabularywords).

75. Musical Pass Guess the Thing under the bucket game (K1)When the students are passing the ball around, the teacher moves the three upside-down turnedbuckets around, so that the students won’t know which is which. When the music stops, thestudent with the ball must “Find the duck!” and guess which bucket the duck is under.

76. Bingo, Tic Tac Toe Best for K3 but can work for K2 also.

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 student’s link elbows and each has a partner. The inner partners aska question (“What is your name?”) chorally, and then the outer partners answer chorally.

78. Musical Letters



100 Children Games - Make big paper letters of the beginning letters of the week’s vocabulary words. (Multiple copies).Place these on the floor and tell students to sing a song that they know. Once the song is over,they must freeze and those who are standing on a letter must say the word that begins with thatletter. Letters can be made in different colors and then “Red A” can win a sticker, which makes itmore exciting.

79. Ladders:

Children sit with feet straight in front of them with another child opposite whose feet will touch theothers child. Children sit in lines with legs together and a space between each pair (see diagram.Don’t laugh too much). Then give each pair a vocabulary word or number Teacher calls out thewords then the pair have to stand up and run up the line, jumping over the legs of the otherchildren then back to their place. First child sitting down is a winner. Good for K3 and also worksfor 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?’ Heresponds 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 toinclude the children’s 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 eachhoop. Children in pairs and have to hop around the hoops to the item shouted. Rest of class canguide 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 thesecond 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 downon their desk. The students standing can touch one person on the head. That student has to puttheir hand/thumb up in the air so they don’t get touched twice. After they touch the students theygo back to the front and students can put their heads up. The students touched have to guesswhich students touched them. The key to this game is to hang flashcards around the necks of thekids 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 tosay a word



100 Children Games - 88. Monster numbers: write numbers on board. Students come up and say a number and eraseit. If it’s not a “monster number” they get a point. If it is a “monster number” the other teamgets a point.

89. Monkey numbers (every 10th number the student becomes a monkey and goes in the middle

of the circle)

90. Shoot out: two students stand back to back holding a flashcard. Take 3 steps, turn aroundand the first to say the word wins.

91. Balloons: tape words to balloons. Keep them up in the air and say the word when you hit it.

92. Rooster Game:Two students standing face to face, each have a flash card on their back. Count to 3, they have totry to see the flash card on the other’s back and the first to say out the word wins.

93. Limbo Game:Good for big group, children line up at the other end and come to do the limbo dance one by one,can use a string instead of stick, say the word before crossing and lower string and change card.Good for review words

94. Colour pin:You need two small baskets (bowels or buckets will do) and one large one and about 70 clothes

pins of different colors (I borrowed from my neighbors).Divide class into two teams (girls and boys if you like). Have each team form a line.First student in each line gets a basket. You will face them a few paces away with the large basketfull of pins at your feet. Say a color (hold up that color pin) tell them they need to collect as manyof that color and then say Go! The Ss will run to your basket and try to sort through and collect allof those colored pins (first round may need some help- but they will get the idea quickly). Givethem 30 seconds or so, and say "times up." Put each team's pins aside in separate piles forcounting up later.

Have the Ss give their empty basket to the next in line and repeat with a different color. Repeatuntil all colors are done. Make sure to plan ahead to give everyone a turn. End by countingtogether out loud each team's pins to see who the winner is.

95. Witch nose

Teacher to draw a witch/ animal face (hat, hair, eyes mouth except nose)on board or on card,make it A3 sizeWhole class in 4-5 team, each team of 5, 1 come out and wear the blind fold, spin 3 times thenthe other team member to give instruction left , right, up down, to place the magnet on the boardas the nose. Then next team play, compare which team put at the centre.

96. Body clock, What time is it?In 2 teams, 1 student from each team, teacher show the clock and ask the students “What time isit?” student need to use their body to show the time, and then answer “It is six o’clock.”

97. ABC wheelUse a dice 1-6 to choose question. Say the alphabet, sound or say a word starts with the letter.Can change letters.

Ff

Ee

Dd

Bb

Cc

Aa

1

2

34

5

6




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, centre2 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 blowPrepare 6 different color cards x 5 pcs. (base on the size of classes, number of student in theclass). 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. ChopstickUse 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.

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