Elementary School Activities

Activities are listed below in categories. Activities may be listed in more than one category.

Activities by category

ALT introduction activities

• Bingo Introduction ES - JHS.
• Introduction Quiz ES - HS.

Activities by name

• ABC song ES. Sing the alphabet song.
• Acting Emotions ES. Act and guess emotions.
• Alice the Camel ES 1 - 3. Dance to the song.
• Animal Chant ES. Chant animals in a circle.
• Animal Cracker ES 1 - 5. Roll dice and make animal sounds.
• Animal Match Finding ES.
• Animals and their sounds (What does the Fox say style) ES - JHS. Teaching the sounds that animals makes
• Around the World ES 3 - 6. Call out numbers quickly.
• BINGO (song) ES 1 - 3.
• Backward Countdown ES 5 - 6. Count backwards for points.
• Bag of Numbers ES.
• Ball Pass Game ES 1 - 4. Good activity for question response practice.
• Balloon Toss ES.
• Bargaining Game ES 3 - 6. Bargain to buy and sell food.
• Bean Jar Count ES - JHS 1. Students guess how many beans are in a jar.
• Bingo ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic game.
• Bingo - Self-Intro ES 4 - JHS 1. Self-introduce, sign names, and play Bingo.
• Bingo Introduction ES - JHS.
• Birthday cards ES 5 - 6. Write birthday cards to friends or family.
• Blind Date ES.
• Bodyparts and Newspaper ES. Touch different bodyparts to newspaper, folding the paper in half when slow.
• Bowling ES 1 - 4. Bowling, keeping score in English.
• Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? ES 1 - 3. Read an easy story with colors and animals. Students repeat parts.
• Buzz ES - JHS 1. Count up without saying certain numbers.
• Card Collecting Game JHS.
• Card Grabbing Race ES 1-3. Grab vocabulary cards off the board when called.
• Chair Race ES 1 - 6. Also knows as "Crash" or "Janken Race Game". Two teams race to say vocabulary words.
• Clock Race ES 2 - 4. Students lie on the ground to make different times on a clock.
• Collect Signatures ES 3 - JHS 1. Self-introduce and sign names.
• Color Dice ES 2 - 4. Roll a color and number dice and name that many fruit.
• Color Touch Game ES 1 - 3. Touch objects of different colors.
• Color matching game ES. Combining color with other taught topics.
• Cooking class ES 2 - Adult. Cook something.
• Counting Race ES 1 - 3. Groups count as fast as they can.
• Cross out ES 5. Roll die until you get all combinations.
• Days wordsearch ES 5.
• Dice Game ES 1 - JHS 2. Practice numbers by rolling dice.
• Duck Duck Goose ES. The classic running around a circle game.
• Dynamite Clapping Game ES 1 - 6. Make a circle and count with various rules.
• Emotion Charades ES. Team charades game.
• English Baseball ES. Group game using "I like ~." and "You like ~?".
• English Pong ES - JHS. Beer pong for the classroom.
• Evolution Game ES. Also known as "Gokiburi". Students janken to climb a ladder of animals or emotions.
• Fast Tapping Game ES. Tap numbers on backs and write the numbers' romaji.
• Final Fantasy ES 4 - JHS 2. Play janken and ask questions to win lives.
• Find the School Rooms ES 4 - 6. Say and follow directions to rooms in the school.
• Fishing ES.
• Fly Swatter Game ES 1 - 6.
• Formula Game ES 3 - 5. Form equations that equal a number.
• Four Corners ES 1. Go to corners of different numbers and hope the teacher doesn't choose theirs.
• Fruit, Please ES 1 - 3. Simple fruit shopping.
• Fruits Basket ES 1 - 3. Students change chairs when their item is called.
• Gesture Game ES 1 - 3. The teacher makes a gesture while hidden. Students make their own gesture and guess what it is.
• Get Down ES 1 - 6. Make a circle, point to a student who ducks, and quiz the neighbors.
• Go Fish ES 2 - JHS 3. The classic card game.
• Good Pet, Bad Pet ES.
• Greeting Ball ES.
• Greeting Gestures ES.
• Guess that Number! (Price is Right) ES. Bring a variety of items in a number bag (backpack), and have students guess in teams the number of each item.
• Hackeysack game ES.
• Hand Jive ES. Dance to Willie and the Hand Jive using adjectives to describe how to dance.
• Happy, Happy, Sad ES 1 - 2.
• Head Shoulders Knees and Toes ES 1 - JHS 1. The classic song.
• Hello Circle Game ES. Practice introductions in a circle.
• Hello Goodbye ES 2 - JHS 3. Listen to and sing Hello Goodbye.
• Hot Potato ES.
• How Are You, Mr. Wolf ES 1 - 3. Students ask a wolf how he is and are chased when he's hungry.
• I Doubt It! ES 2 - 4. Card game where you lie about what you're playing.
• Introduction Quiz ES - HS.
• It's a Small World ES. Sing the famous Disney song.
• Jambo Bwana ES. Sing introduction song in Kenyan, French and English.
• Janken Card Collecting ES 1 - 6. Play janken and ask questions to win cards.
• Janken Train ES 1 - 4. Students play janken and say a sentence.
• Janken up the Ladder ES.
• Karuta ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic Japanese card-slapping game.
• Keyword Game ES 1 - 6. Students practice vocabulary by competing to grab the eraser.
• Listen and Order ES 1 - 3. Listen to the teacher say numbers out of order and put cards in that order.
• London Bridges Falling Down ES.
• Match Finding ES 1 - JHS 1. Find others with the same card.
• Match It ES 3 - JHS 1. Janken and ask questions to get a matching pair.
• Maze Solving ES 3 - 6. Solve mazes in pairs using directions.
• Meet and Greet Your Neighbor ES.
• Meishi Card Game ES - JHS 1.
• Midnight ES 1 - 3. Students listen for their number and run around a circle.
• Month bowling ES 6. Roll dice and say the month.
• Mr. Potato Head, Happy, Sad, Confused? ES. Make faces on Mr. Potato Head for different emotions.
• Murder ES.
• Musical Chairs ES 1 - 3. Walk around a circle and sit when the music stops.
• Musical Circles ES.
• Name Symmetry ES.
• Name Tags ES. Practice "Hello, my name is ~." and make name tags.
• Nine-Square Mind-Reading Trick JHS. Simple trick to use while demonstrating grammar/vocab.
• Number Guessing Game ES 1 - 3. Students guess how many tokens their partner is holding.
• Number Janken ES 1 - 3. Janken and do actions some number of times.
• Number Line-up ES 5. Call out numbers, students arrange cards on board.
• Number Recognition ES 5. Race to cross out numbers.
• Number Rocket ES 2 - 4. Roll dice and write numbers in order on a rocket.
• Number Sequence ES 5. Say the next number in the sequence.
• Number Tag ES 1 - 2. Teacher calls a number and students make groups of that number or get tagged.
• Otedama Game ES 1 - 2. Beanbags and counting up to 12.
• Pac-man Review EL 1-3. Listen for vocabulary and avoid being eaten by Pac-man.
• Paper Aeroplanes ES 2 - 6. Students answer questions then try to fly a plane into a basket.
• Pass the Number ES 2 - 6. Listen to music, pass number cards, and answer questions when the music stops.
• Pictionary ES - JHS. The classic drawing game.
• Picture Finding Game ES.
• Polygon Tag ES. Play tag where students listen for and run to shapes on the ground.
• Rainbow tag ES.
• Red Rover ES.
• River Crossing ES. Students compete by saying colors and animals.
• Rocket Countdown ES 1 - 2. Count down to 1 and jump.
• Running Relay Race ES.
• Saint Patrick's Day ES.
• Scramble ES.
• Seasonal Nature Walk ES. Go for a nature walk, find objects, and learn their English names.
• Secret Number Game ES 1 - 4. Guess a student's secret number to move the student to your team.
• Seven Steps ES 1 - 3. Count and clap to the song Seven Steps.
• Simon Says ES 1 - JHS 1. Variations on Simon Says and TPR.
• Snake Eyes ES 2. Roll dice to win tokens from the pot.
• Soccer Players ES 5. Drill numbers by holding up cards.
• Speed-Reading ES 5. Read numbers fast.
• Spin the bottle ES 5 - 6.
• Spoons ES 2 - 3. Students trade playing cards until they get a straight.
• Steal the Bacon ES 1 - 3. Students race to grab an eraser when they hear their number.
• Sunday Monday Tuesday ES 3 - JHS 1. Learn days of the week through song.
• TPR ES 1 - JHS 3.
• Thanksgiving ES.
• The "What's Your Name" Song K 4 - ES 6.
• The Grandfather Clock ES 1 - 3. ALT acts like a grandfather clock. Students listen for the number of gongs.
• The Hokey Pokey ES 1 - 3. Dance to the Hokey Pokey.
• The Syllable Game ES 4 - JHS. Listen to words and guess the number of syllables.
• The Throne ES 2 - 4. Call numbers and move chairs until one team is sitting on the thrones.
• Tic-Tac-Toe For Numbers ES 2 - 5. Students make pairs to compete in circling and listening.
• Tick Tock ES 1. Read analog clocks and clap the time.
• Time Guessing Game ES 1 - 3. Guess what time the ALT put on his clock.
• Unlucky Number 13 ES 2 - JHS 1. Count up to 13 by 1s, 2s, or 3s, trying not to say 13.
• Valentine's wordsearch ES 4 - 6.
• Video game ES. Students yell out the name of sports while watching a sports montage.
• Wave Making ES 1 - 3. Count up in a circle, making a wave.
• Weather drawing ES 1 - 3. Draw the weather in different cities.
• What time is it, Mr. Wolf ES 1 - 3. Listen for the time and play tag.
• What's This? Drawing ES 5. Draw an item on the board one piece at a time. Students guess what it is.
• What's Your Name ES. Students ask each other their name and give fake answers.
• Whose is this? ES.
• Word search ES 3 - 6. Search for jumbled words
• Writing Race ES 4 - 6. Race to write numbers on the board.
• Zookeeper ES 1-6.

Adjectives activities

• Hand Jive ES. Dance to Willie and the Hand Jive using adjectives to describe how to dance.

Animals activities

• Animal Chant ES. Chant animals in a circle.
• Animal Cracker ES 1 - 5. Roll dice and make animal sounds.
• Animal Match Finding ES.
• Animals and their sounds (What does the Fox say style) ES - JHS. Teaching the sounds that animals makes
• Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? ES 1 - 3. Read an easy story with colors and animals. Students repeat parts.
• Duck Duck Goose ES. The classic running around a circle game.
• Evolution Game ES. Also known as "Gokiburi". Students janken to climb a ladder of animals or emotions.
• Good Pet, Bad Pet ES.
• Pictionary ES - JHS. The classic drawing game.
• River Crossing ES. Students compete by saying colors and animals.

Birthday activities

• Birthday cards ES 5 - 6. Write birthday cards to friends or family.

Body parts activities

• Bodyparts and Newspaper ES. Touch different bodyparts to newspaper, folding the paper in half when slow.
• Head Shoulders Knees and Toes ES 1 - JHS 1. The classic song.
• Simon Says ES 1 - JHS 1. Variations on Simon Says and TPR.
• TPR ES 1 - JHS 3.
• The Hokey Pokey ES 1 - 3. Dance to the Hokey Pokey.

Colors activities

• Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? ES 1 - 3. Read an easy story with colors and animals. Students repeat parts.
• Color Touch Game ES 1 - 3. Touch objects of different colors.
• Color matching game ES. Combining color with other taught topics.
• Rainbow tag ES.

Comparing activities

• Dice Game ES 1 - JHS 2. Practice numbers by rolling dice.

Conversation activities

• English Baseball ES. Group game using "I like ~." and "You like ~?".

Days activities

• Sunday Monday Tuesday ES 3 - JHS 1. Learn days of the week through song.

Demonstrative pronoun activities

• Match It ES 3 - JHS 1. Janken and ask questions to get a matching pair.
• Pictionary ES - JHS. The classic drawing game.

Directions activities

• Find the School Rooms ES 4 - 6. Say and follow directions to rooms in the school.
• Maze Solving ES 3 - 6. Solve mazes in pairs using directions.
• Simon Says ES 1 - JHS 1. Variations on Simon Says and TPR.
• TPR ES 1 - JHS 3.

Elementary school activities

• ABC song ES. Sing the alphabet song.
• Acting Emotions ES. Act and guess emotions.
• Alice the Camel ES 1 - 3. Dance to the song.
• Animal Chant ES. Chant animals in a circle.
• Animal Cracker ES 1 - 5. Roll dice and make animal sounds.
• Animal Match Finding ES.
• Animals and their sounds (What does the Fox say style) ES - JHS. Teaching the sounds that animals makes
• Around the World ES 3 - 6. Call out numbers quickly.
• BINGO (song) ES 1 - 3.
• Backward Countdown ES 5 - 6. Count backwards for points.
• Bag of Numbers ES.
• Ball Pass Game ES 1 - 4. Good activity for question response practice.
• Balloon Toss ES.
• Bargaining Game ES 3 - 6. Bargain to buy and sell food.
• Bean Jar Count ES - JHS 1. Students guess how many beans are in a jar.
• Bingo ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic game.
• Bingo - Self-Intro ES 4 - JHS 1. Self-introduce, sign names, and play Bingo.
• Bingo Introduction ES - JHS.
• Birthday cards ES 5 - 6. Write birthday cards to friends or family.
• Blind Date ES.
• Bodyparts and Newspaper ES. Touch different bodyparts to newspaper, folding the paper in half when slow.
• Bowling ES 1 - 4. Bowling, keeping score in English.
• Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? ES 1 - 3. Read an easy story with colors and animals. Students repeat parts.
• Buzz ES - JHS 1. Count up without saying certain numbers.
• Card Collecting Game JHS.
• Card Grabbing Race ES 1-3. Grab vocabulary cards off the board when called.
• Chair Race ES 1 - 6. Also knows as "Crash" or "Janken Race Game". Two teams race to say vocabulary words.
• Clock Race ES 2 - 4. Students lie on the ground to make different times on a clock.
• Collect Signatures ES 3 - JHS 1. Self-introduce and sign names.
• Color Dice ES 2 - 4. Roll a color and number dice and name that many fruit.
• Color Touch Game ES 1 - 3. Touch objects of different colors.
• Color matching game ES. Combining color with other taught topics.
• Cooking class ES 2 - Adult. Cook something.
• Counting Race ES 1 - 3. Groups count as fast as they can.
• Cross out ES 5. Roll die until you get all combinations.
• Days wordsearch ES 5.
• Dice Game ES 1 - JHS 2. Practice numbers by rolling dice.
• Duck Duck Goose ES. The classic running around a circle game.
• Dynamite Clapping Game ES 1 - 6. Make a circle and count with various rules.
• Emotion Charades ES. Team charades game.
• English Baseball ES. Group game using "I like ~." and "You like ~?".
• English Pong ES - JHS. Beer pong for the classroom.
• Evolution Game ES. Also known as "Gokiburi". Students janken to climb a ladder of animals or emotions.
• Fast Tapping Game ES. Tap numbers on backs and write the numbers' romaji.
• Final Fantasy ES 4 - JHS 2. Play janken and ask questions to win lives.
• Find the School Rooms ES 4 - 6. Say and follow directions to rooms in the school.
• Fishing ES.
• Fly Swatter Game ES 1 - 6.
• Formula Game ES 3 - 5. Form equations that equal a number.
• Four Corners ES 1. Go to corners of different numbers and hope the teacher doesn't choose theirs.
• Fruit, Please ES 1 - 3. Simple fruit shopping.
• Fruits Basket ES 1 - 3. Students change chairs when their item is called.
• Gesture Game ES 1 - 3. The teacher makes a gesture while hidden. Students make their own gesture and guess what it is.
• Get Down ES 1 - 6. Make a circle, point to a student who ducks, and quiz the neighbors.
• Go Fish ES 2 - JHS 3. The classic card game.
• Good Pet, Bad Pet ES.
• Greeting Ball ES.
• Greeting Gestures ES.
• Guess that Number! (Price is Right) ES. Bring a variety of items in a number bag (backpack), and have students guess in teams the number of each item.
• Hackeysack game ES.
• Hand Jive ES. Dance to Willie and the Hand Jive using adjectives to describe how to dance.
• Happy, Happy, Sad ES 1 - 2.
• Head Shoulders Knees and Toes ES 1 - JHS 1. The classic song.
• Hello Circle Game ES. Practice introductions in a circle.
• Hello Goodbye ES 2 - JHS 3. Listen to and sing Hello Goodbye.
• Hot Potato ES.
• How Are You, Mr. Wolf ES 1 - 3. Students ask a wolf how he is and are chased when he's hungry.
• I Doubt It! ES 2 - 4. Card game where you lie about what you're playing.
• Introduction Quiz ES - HS.
• It's a Small World ES. Sing the famous Disney song.
• Jambo Bwana ES. Sing introduction song in Kenyan, French and English.
• Janken Card Collecting ES 1 - 6. Play janken and ask questions to win cards.
• Janken Train ES 1 - 4. Students play janken and say a sentence.
• Janken up the Ladder ES.
• Karuta ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic Japanese card-slapping game.
• Keyword Game ES 1 - 6. Students practice vocabulary by competing to grab the eraser.
• Listen and Order ES 1 - 3. Listen to the teacher say numbers out of order and put cards in that order.
• London Bridges Falling Down ES.
• Match Finding ES 1 - JHS 1. Find others with the same card.
• Match It ES 3 - JHS 1. Janken and ask questions to get a matching pair.
• Maze Solving ES 3 - 6. Solve mazes in pairs using directions.
• Meet and Greet Your Neighbor ES.
• Meishi Card Game ES - JHS 1.
• Midnight ES 1 - 3. Students listen for their number and run around a circle.
• Month bowling ES 6. Roll dice and say the month.
• Mr. Potato Head, Happy, Sad, Confused? ES. Make faces on Mr. Potato Head for different emotions.
• Murder ES.
• Musical Chairs ES 1 - 3. Walk around a circle and sit when the music stops.
• Musical Circles ES.
• Name Symmetry ES.
• Name Tags ES. Practice "Hello, my name is ~." and make name tags.
• Nine-Square Mind-Reading Trick JHS. Simple trick to use while demonstrating grammar/vocab.
• Number Guessing Game ES 1 - 3. Students guess how many tokens their partner is holding.
• Number Janken ES 1 - 3. Janken and do actions some number of times.
• Number Line-up ES 5. Call out numbers, students arrange cards on board.
• Number Recognition ES 5. Race to cross out numbers.
• Number Rocket ES 2 - 4. Roll dice and write numbers in order on a rocket.
• Number Sequence ES 5. Say the next number in the sequence.
• Number Tag ES 1 - 2. Teacher calls a number and students make groups of that number or get tagged.
• Otedama Game ES 1 - 2. Beanbags and counting up to 12.
• Pac-man Review EL 1-3. Listen for vocabulary and avoid being eaten by Pac-man.
• Paper Aeroplanes ES 2 - 6. Students answer questions then try to fly a plane into a basket.
• Pass the Number ES 2 - 6. Listen to music, pass number cards, and answer questions when the music stops.
• Pictionary ES - JHS. The classic drawing game.
• Picture Finding Game ES.
• Polygon Tag ES. Play tag where students listen for and run to shapes on the ground.
• Rainbow tag ES.
• Red Rover ES.
• River Crossing ES. Students compete by saying colors and animals.
• Rocket Countdown ES 1 - 2. Count down to 1 and jump.
• Running Relay Race ES.
• Saint Patrick's Day ES.
• Scramble ES.
• Seasonal Nature Walk ES. Go for a nature walk, find objects, and learn their English names.
• Secret Number Game ES 1 - 4. Guess a student's secret number to move the student to your team.
• Seven Steps ES 1 - 3. Count and clap to the song Seven Steps.
• Simon Says ES 1 - JHS 1. Variations on Simon Says and TPR.
• Snake Eyes ES 2. Roll dice to win tokens from the pot.
• Soccer Players ES 5. Drill numbers by holding up cards.
• Speed-Reading ES 5. Read numbers fast.
• Spin the bottle ES 5 - 6.
• Spoons ES 2 - 3. Students trade playing cards until they get a straight.
• Steal the Bacon ES 1 - 3. Students race to grab an eraser when they hear their number.
• Sunday Monday Tuesday ES 3 - JHS 1. Learn days of the week through song.
• TPR ES 1 - JHS 3.
• Thanksgiving ES.
• The "What's Your Name" Song K 4 - ES 6.
• The Grandfather Clock ES 1 - 3. ALT acts like a grandfather clock. Students listen for the number of gongs.
• The Hokey Pokey ES 1 - 3. Dance to the Hokey Pokey.
• The Syllable Game ES 4 - JHS. Listen to words and guess the number of syllables.
• The Throne ES 2 - 4. Call numbers and move chairs until one team is sitting on the thrones.
• Tic-Tac-Toe For Numbers ES 2 - 5. Students make pairs to compete in circling and listening.
• Tick Tock ES 1. Read analog clocks and clap the time.
• Time Guessing Game ES 1 - 3. Guess what time the ALT put on his clock.
• Unlucky Number 13 ES 2 - JHS 1. Count up to 13 by 1s, 2s, or 3s, trying not to say 13.
• Valentine's wordsearch ES 4 - 6.
• Video game ES. Students yell out the name of sports while watching a sports montage.
• Wave Making ES 1 - 3. Count up in a circle, making a wave.
• Weather drawing ES 1 - 3. Draw the weather in different cities.
• What time is it, Mr. Wolf ES 1 - 3. Listen for the time and play tag.
• What's This? Drawing ES 5. Draw an item on the board one piece at a time. Students guess what it is.
• What's Your Name ES. Students ask each other their name and give fake answers.
• Whose is this? ES.
• Word search ES 3 - 6. Search for jumbled words
• Writing Race ES 4 - 6. Race to write numbers on the board.
• Zookeeper ES 1-6.

Emotions activities

• Acting Emotions ES. Act and guess emotions.
• Emotion Charades ES. Team charades game.
• Evolution Game ES. Also known as "Gokiburi". Students janken to climb a ladder of animals or emotions.
• Gesture Game ES 1 - 3. The teacher makes a gesture while hidden. Students make their own gesture and guess what it is.
• Greeting Ball ES.
• Happy, Happy, Sad ES 1 - 2.
• How Are You, Mr. Wolf ES 1 - 3. Students ask a wolf how he is and are chased when he's hungry.
• Mr. Potato Head, Happy, Sad, Confused? ES. Make faces on Mr. Potato Head for different emotions.

Food activities

• Bargaining Game ES 3 - 6. Bargain to buy and sell food.
• Color Dice ES 2 - 4. Roll a color and number dice and name that many fruit.
• Cooking class ES 2 - Adult. Cook something.
• Fruit, Please ES 1 - 3. Simple fruit shopping.
• Rainbow tag ES.

General use activities

• Around the World ES 3 - 6. Call out numbers quickly.
• Ball Pass Game ES 1 - 4. Good activity for question response practice.
• Bingo ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic game.
• Card Collecting Game JHS.
• Card Grabbing Race ES 1-3. Grab vocabulary cards off the board when called.
• Chair Race ES 1 - 6. Also knows as "Crash" or "Janken Race Game". Two teams race to say vocabulary words.
• Dice Game ES 1 - JHS 2. Practice numbers by rolling dice.
• English Pong ES - JHS. Beer pong for the classroom.
• Final Fantasy ES 4 - JHS 2. Play janken and ask questions to win lives.
• Fly Swatter Game ES 1 - 6.
• Fruits Basket ES 1 - 3. Students change chairs when their item is called.
• Gesture Game ES 1 - 3. The teacher makes a gesture while hidden. Students make their own gesture and guess what it is.
• Get Down ES 1 - 6. Make a circle, point to a student who ducks, and quiz the neighbors.
• Go Fish ES 2 - JHS 3. The classic card game.
• Janken Card Collecting ES 1 - 6. Play janken and ask questions to win cards.
• Janken Train ES 1 - 4. Students play janken and say a sentence.
• Karuta ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic Japanese card-slapping game.
• Keyword Game ES 1 - 6. Students practice vocabulary by competing to grab the eraser.
• Match Finding ES 1 - JHS 1. Find others with the same card.
• Match It ES 3 - JHS 1. Janken and ask questions to get a matching pair.
• Musical Chairs ES 1 - 3. Walk around a circle and sit when the music stops.
• Nine-Square Mind-Reading Trick JHS. Simple trick to use while demonstrating grammar/vocab.
• Pac-man Review EL 1-3. Listen for vocabulary and avoid being eaten by Pac-man.
• Paper Aeroplanes ES 2 - 6. Students answer questions then try to fly a plane into a basket.
• Rainbow tag ES.
• Red Rover ES.
• Running Relay Race ES.
• Scramble ES.
• What's This? Drawing ES 5. Draw an item on the board one piece at a time. Students guess what it is.
• Word search ES 3 - 6. Search for jumbled words
• Zookeeper ES 1-6.

Greetings activities

• Greeting Gestures ES.
• Hello Circle Game ES. Practice introductions in a circle.
• Hello Goodbye ES 2 - JHS 3. Listen to and sing Hello Goodbye.
• Meet and Greet Your Neighbor ES.
• Picture Finding Game ES.

Gym activities

• Duck Duck Goose ES. The classic running around a circle game.
• Hackeysack game ES.
• Number Tag ES 1 - 2. Teacher calls a number and students make groups of that number or get tagged.
• Rainbow tag ES.
• Red Rover ES.
• Running Relay Race ES.
• Steal the Bacon ES 1 - 3. Students race to grab an eraser when they hear their number.
• What time is it, Mr. Wolf ES 1 - 3. Listen for the time and play tag.

High school activities

• Introduction Quiz ES - HS.

In-school project

• Cooking class ES 2 - Adult. Cook something.

Introduction activities

• Balloon Toss ES.
• Bingo - Self-Intro ES 4 - JHS 1. Self-introduce, sign names, and play Bingo.
• Blind Date ES.
• Collect Signatures ES 3 - JHS 1. Self-introduce and sign names.
• Dice Game ES 1 - JHS 2. Practice numbers by rolling dice.
• Fishing ES.
• Hot Potato ES.
• Janken up the Ladder ES.
• London Bridges Falling Down ES.
• Meishi Card Game ES - JHS 1.
• Murder ES.
• Musical Circles ES.
• Name Symmetry ES.
• Name Tags ES. Practice "Hello, my name is ~." and make name tags.
• The "What's Your Name" Song K 4 - ES 6.
• What's Your Name ES. Students ask each other their name and give fake answers.

Junior high school activities

• Animals and their sounds (What does the Fox say style) ES - JHS. Teaching the sounds that animals makes
• Bean Jar Count ES - JHS 1. Students guess how many beans are in a jar.
• Bingo ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic game.
• Bingo Introduction ES - JHS.
• Buzz ES - JHS 1. Count up without saying certain numbers.
• Card Collecting Game JHS.
• Dice Game ES 1 - JHS 2. Practice numbers by rolling dice.
• English Pong ES - JHS. Beer pong for the classroom.
• Final Fantasy ES 4 - JHS 2. Play janken and ask questions to win lives.
• Go Fish ES 2 - JHS 3. The classic card game.
• Head Shoulders Knees and Toes ES 1 - JHS 1. The classic song.
• Hot Potato ES.
• Introduction Quiz ES - HS.
• Karuta ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic Japanese card-slapping game.
• Match It ES 3 - JHS 1. Janken and ask questions to get a matching pair.
• Meishi Card Game ES - JHS 1.
• Nine-Square Mind-Reading Trick JHS. Simple trick to use while demonstrating grammar/vocab.
• Pictionary ES - JHS. The classic drawing game.
• Simon Says ES 1 - JHS 1. Variations on Simon Says and TPR.
• TPR ES 1 - JHS 3.
• The Syllable Game ES 4 - JHS. Listen to words and guess the number of syllables.
• Valentine's wordsearch ES 4 - 6.

Months activities

• Month bowling ES 6. Roll dice and say the month.

Music activities

• ABC song ES. Sing the alphabet song.
• BINGO (song) ES 1 - 3.
• Hand Jive ES. Dance to Willie and the Hand Jive using adjectives to describe how to dance.
• Head Shoulders Knees and Toes ES 1 - JHS 1. The classic song.
• Hello Goodbye ES 2 - JHS 3. Listen to and sing Hello Goodbye.
• It's a Small World ES. Sing the famous Disney song.
• Jambo Bwana ES. Sing introduction song in Kenyan, French and English.
• Musical Chairs ES 1 - 3. Walk around a circle and sit when the music stops.
• Musical Circles ES.
• Seven Steps ES 1 - 3. Count and clap to the song Seven Steps.
• Sunday Monday Tuesday ES 3 - JHS 1. Learn days of the week through song.
• The "What's Your Name" Song K 4 - ES 6.
• The Hokey Pokey ES 1 - 3. Dance to the Hokey Pokey.

Needs to be merged

• Happy, Happy, Sad ES 1 - 2.

Needs work

• Pictionary ES - JHS. The classic drawing game.

Numbers activities

• Around the World ES 3 - 6. Call out numbers quickly.
• Backward Countdown ES 5 - 6. Count backwards for points.
• Bag of Numbers ES.
• Bean Jar Count ES - JHS 1. Students guess how many beans are in a jar.
• Bowling ES 1 - 4. Bowling, keeping score in English.
• Buzz ES - JHS 1. Count up without saying certain numbers.
• Counting Race ES 1 - 3. Groups count as fast as they can.
• Cross out ES 5. Roll die until you get all combinations.
• Dice Game ES 1 - JHS 2. Practice numbers by rolling dice.
• Duck Duck Goose ES. The classic running around a circle game.
• Dynamite Clapping Game ES 1 - 6. Make a circle and count with various rules.
• Fast Tapping Game ES. Tap numbers on backs and write the numbers' romaji.
• Formula Game ES 3 - 5. Form equations that equal a number.
• Four Corners ES 1. Go to corners of different numbers and hope the teacher doesn't choose theirs.
• Guess that Number! (Price is Right) ES. Bring a variety of items in a number bag (backpack), and have students guess in teams the number of each item.
• Hot Potato ES.
• I Doubt It! ES 2 - 4. Card game where you lie about what you're playing.
• Listen and Order ES 1 - 3. Listen to the teacher say numbers out of order and put cards in that order.
• Midnight ES 1 - 3. Students listen for their number and run around a circle.
• Number Guessing Game ES 1 - 3. Students guess how many tokens their partner is holding.
• Number Janken ES 1 - 3. Janken and do actions some number of times.
• Number Line-up ES 5. Call out numbers, students arrange cards on board.
• Number Recognition ES 5. Race to cross out numbers.
• Number Rocket ES 2 - 4. Roll dice and write numbers in order on a rocket.
• Number Sequence ES 5. Say the next number in the sequence.
• Number Tag ES 1 - 2. Teacher calls a number and students make groups of that number or get tagged.
• Otedama Game ES 1 - 2. Beanbags and counting up to 12.
• Pass the Number ES 2 - 6. Listen to music, pass number cards, and answer questions when the music stops.
• Rocket Countdown ES 1 - 2. Count down to 1 and jump.
• Secret Number Game ES 1 - 4. Guess a student's secret number to move the student to your team.
• Seven Steps ES 1 - 3. Count and clap to the song Seven Steps.
• Snake Eyes ES 2. Roll dice to win tokens from the pot.
• Soccer Players ES 5. Drill numbers by holding up cards.
• Speed-Reading ES 5. Read numbers fast.
• Spoons ES 2 - 3. Students trade playing cards until they get a straight.
• Steal the Bacon ES 1 - 3. Students race to grab an eraser when they hear their number.
• The Throne ES 2 - 4. Call numbers and move chairs until one team is sitting on the thrones.
• Tic-Tac-Toe For Numbers ES 2 - 5. Students make pairs to compete in circling and listening.
• Unlucky Number 13 ES 2 - JHS 1. Count up to 13 by 1s, 2s, or 3s, trying not to say 13.
• Wave Making ES 1 - 3. Count up in a circle, making a wave.
• Writing Race ES 4 - 6. Race to write numbers on the board.

Phonics activities

• Match Finding ES 1 - JHS 1. Find others with the same card.
• The Syllable Game ES 4 - JHS. Listen to words and guess the number of syllables.

School rooms activities

• Find the School Rooms ES 4 - 6. Say and follow directions to rooms in the school.
• Maze Solving ES 3 - 6. Solve mazes in pairs using directions.

Shapes activities

• Polygon Tag ES. Play tag where students listen for and run to shapes on the ground.

Sports activities

• Video game ES. Students yell out the name of sports while watching a sports montage.

Thanksgiving activities

• Thanksgiving ES.

Time activities

• Clock Race ES 2 - 4. Students lie on the ground to make different times on a clock.
• Midnight ES 1 - 3. Students listen for their number and run around a circle.
• The Grandfather Clock ES 1 - 3. ALT acts like a grandfather clock. Students listen for the number of gongs.
• Tick Tock ES 1. Read analog clocks and clap the time.
• Time Guessing Game ES 1 - 3. Guess what time the ALT put on his clock.
• What time is it, Mr. Wolf ES 1 - 3. Listen for the time and play tag.
• Writing Race ES 4 - 6. Race to write numbers on the board.

Valentine's day activities

• Spin the bottle ES 5 - 6.
• Valentine's wordsearch ES 4 - 6.

Warm-up activities

• Karuta ES 1 - JHS 3. The classic Japanese card-slapping game.
• Simon Says ES 1 - JHS 1. Variations on Simon Says and TPR.
• TPR ES 1 - JHS 3.

Weather activities

• Weather drawing ES 1 - 3. Draw the weather in different cities.

See also

• Elementary lesson resources.
• Junior high school activities.
• Teaching resources.

External links

• Discovery Education Puzzlemaker. Make word searches and crosswords.
• Englipedia's elementary school page.
• Genki English. Free games and ideas. Materials not free.
• Kids Games. The rules for a lot of fun games.
• Sendai JET Elementary School Page.