Elementary School Activities
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Activities are listed below in categories. Activities may be listed in more than one category.
Activities by category
- Bingo Introduction ES - JHS.
- Introduction Quiz ES - HS.
- 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.
- Hand Jive ES. Dance to Willie and the Hand Jive using adjectives to describe how to dance.
- 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 cards ES 5 - 6. Write birthday cards to friends or family.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dice Game ES 1 - JHS 2. Practice numbers by rolling dice.
- English Baseball ES. Group game using "I like ~." and "You like ~?".
- Sunday Monday Tuesday ES 3 - JHS 1. Learn days of the week through song.
- Match It ES 3 - JHS 1. Janken and ask questions to get a matching pair.
- Pictionary ES - JHS. The classic drawing game.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Introduction Quiz ES - HS.
- Cooking class ES 2 - Adult. Cook something.
- 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.
- 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.
- Month bowling ES 6. Roll dice and say the month.
- 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.
- Happy, Happy, Sad ES 1 - 2.
- Pictionary ES - JHS. The classic drawing game.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Polygon Tag ES. Play tag where students listen for and run to shapes on the ground.
- Video game ES. Students yell out the name of sports while watching a sports montage.
- Thanksgiving ES.
- 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.
- Spin the bottle ES 5 - 6.
- Valentine's wordsearch ES 4 - 6.
- 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 drawing ES 1 - 3. Draw the weather in different cities.
See also
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.
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