Play continues until the last student writes what they have understood on the whiteboard. Using their pen or pencil, the student will “write” the word on the back of the student in front of them. Ask your class to line up facing the whiteboard, and show the student farthest from the board a vocabulary word. This is a cousin of “telephone”, where a word is whispered down the line, only to (possibly) come out very differently at the end. These quick activities are great for scratching an classroom itch-plus, you’ve already got the materials you need: Pencils, paper, and erasers. Maybe there’s a missing link in your vocabulary lesson or you’d love a spare warm up activity for the first day back. There are five minutes before class ends and you’re losing your young learners.
Verbal Venn. One player chooses two disparate objects, the other player attempts to find a linking characteristic between those two objects and the word that would go in the middle of the imaginary Venn diagram.įor example, player one says, "magazine and stove." A potential answer might be, "Cookbooks: things that you read and things in the kitchen." Player one does not have to have an answer.You know the deal. If playing with others, you can set a timer and trade off with different words, or write words down and see who can come up with the most. Human Thesaurus. This is a fantastic game for building language skills! Choose a simple word like "beautiful." Think of as many synonyms as you can. The other player then must guess the "Hink Pink." For example, if one person says, "angry boy", the other player responds, "mad lad." Or, "wet canine" becomes "soggy doggy." One person thinks of a two word rhyme and says a two word description. Hink Pink. Hink Pinks are rhyming word puzzles. Verbal fluency games which rely of quick thinking and literacy skills (such as word games) pen and paper games and physical brain games which require objects, or utilize kids' bodies. I chose three categories of screen-free brain twisters below. Did you know that nearsightedness is on the rise because children's eyeballs don't spend enough time adjusting and readjusting to focusing on objects in the distance? ( source: my ophthalmologist!) Well, these mind bending brain games will get your kids' eyes off the screens and test their mental abilities! Pretty soon they'll be playing all kinds of mind games with you ( ha ha).Ī few of these games can be played solo, but most require at least one other partner, which means kids are working on social skills as they navigate the ins and out of cooperation and competition.īrain games are also good tools for classrooms, when teachers need to give kids a little "in-between" fun activities. These games for brain development require your children to look at you, each other, and the world. Sure, an electronic brain game on the phone or tablet might do the trick, but these screen-free brain games that boost quick thinking skills are different! They fill the time while waiting in line, driving in the car, or those sticky moments when you can't just let your kid be bored without chaos raining down.
Brain games are an essential part of my parenting toolkit.
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