3 Fun Classroom Games to Play
TWENTY WAYS TO THE OTHER SIDE: This activity involves movement. Each child must move to the other side of the room in different ways like turning, walking, walking backwards, sideways, etc.
CARTOON DRAMA: Cut out a cartoon strip from Sunday's newspaper. Use whiteout and cover over the blurbs. Use the back of the cartoon strip and mix them up and number the order of the strip for you to remember. Cut out each square of the strip and mix them up. Hand out the strip squares to the child and let the child put it in order the best way and tell the story.
MUSICAL SHOE STRIP: Children sit in a circle. Select a child and give a ball to hold. When the music starts, the ball is passed to the right. When the music stops, the child with the ball must take one shoe off. The music begins again. When a child loses both shoes, they are eliminated from the game. Words, Geometric Shapes, and Emotions Activities
Activity #1 – Be an Occupation. Children like to mimic and asking a child to mimic individually an occupation like be a piano player, teacher, animal trainer, ballet dancer or any other occupation created by you. It is fun to watch children create and use their imagination to fulfill the occupation.
Activity #2 – Be a Geometric Shape. Children individually are asked to use their bodies and make a circle, or square, or triangle, or make designs like a flower by starting first to create a stem, adding leaves, and then the flowers. This one really takes thinking and imagination to perform.
Activity #3 – Be an Emotion. Children individually show emotions like mad, happy, puzzled, worry, etc. Find pictures and cut them out from magazines, cartoon clips from newspapers, or from clip art on the internet. Place them in a basket, mix them up, let the child pick out a picture and then show perform that emotion to the class and let the class guess it. You can also divide the class into 2 teams and a point is earned for each correct answer.
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