Decoding words game

20 Proven Decoding Words Activities for Kids

Decoding words is a process every reader must master in order to achieve fluency. It's one of those skills which leads to memorization of sight words, but never fully abandons a reader because no matter how much you read, you will always come across a word you don't know. This may involve breaking a word down into phonemes (the smallest sounds), combining syllables, and/or matching words with pictures to help with sounds. To help equip students with the skill of decoding words, parents and teachers can employ some (or all) of the following strategies!

While this may not seem like the most creative or unique method, sometimes simple is best. Simply write the letters on an index card, then place a picture of an object on that same card. For example, the sound "f" may be paired with a picture of a fish. You can even theme these cards to your children's interests to help them build connections more quickly, and be sure to ask them about the letter names to practice their letter recognition (graphemes).

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Labeling commonplace objects in your home with their starting sound ("couch"), your children will be able to see their world literally spelled out around them can help build a kinesthetic connection between reading and their world, as well. You can also use letter magnets whenever possible for easy letter manipulation!

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Using the letters from a Scrabble game to create a fun learning activity, select an ending sound (such as -at). Then, practice moving consonants to the beginning of the word. Whoever can make the most words for that end sound wins!

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By using building blocks coded by color in this lesson activity, have the children break the words into syllables and then sound them out. For example, the word "rabbit" is to be divided between the two "b's". Then you have two simple consonant-vowel-consonant words to sound out--rab and bit. All you have to do is put them together to sound out the word! This can help you see how they are doing on their grasp of letter sounds, as well as with individual letters.

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Using traffic light colors, have the children practice blending letter sounds with three-letter words. The first letter is to be labeled green (keep on going), the second will be yellow (get ready to slow down), and the third will be red (stop now)! If you're able, teachers can even use some multisensory props with this exercise.

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You're never too young to work on your Latin roots! For real, using base words, suffixes, and affixes that are common in the English language is a key skill that can help young readers learn fluency and decode meaning. Try making a bunch of cards with different parts that fit together (as seen below) then let your little reader play around with making new (and sometimes even silly) words. It really is a fundamental skill!

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If at first, you don't succeed... try again! This works with literacy skills, too. Have children (especially upper elementary) try out different pronunciations of letter sounds and the letter patterns to determine which way the sound goes. For example, -ow in snow versus -ow in now.

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Word families are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern. Learning the 37 word families can greatly aid a student in his/her efforts to learn decoding skills.

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Sometimes decoding can come down to the simple act of using context clues, no matter your reading level. If you struggle to know whether or not the word "read" should be pronounced like "read" (the color) or "read" (as in weed), look at what is going on around the word! Is the rest of the sentence in past tense or present tense? It can really make a difference!

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Have children practice writing words they hear phonetically, turning them into graphemes. While they are not always going to spell it right, they will start to connect different words in their lives with letters of the alphabet (step 3).

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When you map out a word, you divide it by letter (or letter sound chunks) so it feels more manageable and conquerable. Then the teacher can instruct children to blend a different letter combination to try a different word.

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To warm a student up before getting into heavier context reading, the teacher can employ some decoding drills! This helps students focus on one vowel sound (or blended sound) at a time and when used regularly will help improve overall fluency. This can be done with any color of paper!

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It's widely known to educators everywhere that reading aloud to students is still the best way to model fluency and phonemic awareness. Try following the words with your own finger to model this to students so they can match the phonemes with the graphemes in your read aloud book. This direct instruction is an essential strategy and an efficient strategy that can be used by any teacher at any level with lots of books.

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When students are learning to decode, sometimes they make fluency mistakes. While it can be easy to want to let this go, a teacher should use it as an opportunity to help students recognize the decoding error they made and pay attention to letters. See the image for an example of how to guide these conversations!

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Sometimes just using a text that was created to help students learn to decode is best. These phonics activities specifically target letter sounds and phonics skills you are wanting your student to practice.

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Since kids are going to be watching TV anyway, you may as well make it as educational as you can! Studies have shown that using the Closed Captioning feature on your tv and videos can improve students' fluency and decoding abilities. (https://www.3playmedia.com/blog/closed-captions-improve-literacy-children/)

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Put word sounds on different sides of a die and have students practice rolling it. Once it lands on a letter sound, have them create a list of as many words as they can that have that sound. Not only will they be practicing their sight words and playing a silly game, but they will also be able to practice writing letters.

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Sometimes students struggle to decode because they read the first letter or two, then guess. They need to slow down and read the whole part of the word. To practice this, have kids go back to a word they get wrong. Make sure you point out where they stopped reading the correct word and just guessed, and give them lots of encouragement!

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This has been mentioned in addition to other strategies in this column, but it's important to note that guiding your eye with your finger as you read is a critical skill for students learning to decode and shouldn't be overlooked!

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20. Stretch the Sounds

Have students read and practice stretching the sounds they make so they blend together. You can also do this using letter magnets for some fridge fun while they do their phonics practice.

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Favorite Online Phonics Games

If you have an emerging reader in your life, you know that he or she needs lots and lots of practice decoding words.  To be honest, it can quite boring and tedious for kids during this phase before they become fluent readers.  Enter online phonics games to spice up that practice a bit.

Now, I’m definitely a parent and educator who is very picky about digital educational resources. There are some very poor resources out there and I don’t want to waste our time.  So, I’ve rounded up the ones that I have personally used and like.

I should also note that I use digital resources as one tool to help my young readers.  I’m still a firm believer that kids need lots and lots of practice with good old books they can hold in their hands.  And, lots of hands-on playful games with the interaction of an adult is vital.  Online phonics games are meant to supplement instruction.

The games you will find below are available to play online by visiting a website.  Some of them are also available as free or paid app for other devices.

TEACH YOUR MONSTER TO READ

Teach Your Monster to Read ranks at the top of my list.  Kids get to design their own monster and then they are responsible for teaching that creature to read.  Children pass through levels of difficulty with each level building upon the prior level completing phonics games.  Level 1 begins with letter sounds.  As you progress through the levels children learn different vowel combination sounds, practicing reading word and sentences, and learning a list of sight words.  The game has a video game to feel to it with kids collecting stars as points as they move from section to section. You can add multiple players who might be working at different levels.

The online website version is free, but registration is required.  There is also a paid app version that may work better for kids who are still struggling with mouse control on a traditional computer.

EDUCATION.COM

Sometimes we will switch tasks to spice up our reading work by playing a quick game on Education.com.  There are several short vowel games, silent e, and blending games to play.

There is a free basic membership, but registration is required.  You can also upgrade to a premium membership for more resources.

STARFALL

I’ve been using Starfall as a teacher and now as a parent for many years.  The site is well organized. In the Learn to Read level,  each section has a game, book, and skill activity.  At the book level, kids can read on their own.  If they get stuck on a word, the program will model sounding out the word. Alphabet Activities can be played before Learn to Read.  Then there is It’s Fun to Read and I’m Reading as advanced levels.

I think the Learn to Read level is the most useful and comprehensive of all the levels.

The online website version is free.  There are teacher and parent memberships for additional resources.  It is also available as a free app.

LITERACY APPS

If you would like to see my list of literacy apps that I recommend, you can check out this post.—>LITERACY APPS

HANDS-ON PHONICS ACTIVITIES

Don’t forget to engage in lots of other phonics activities to help your kids read.  Here are a few hands-on ideas to help.

Ant Mobile Phonics Game

CVC Phonics Games for Beginning Readers

Monster Truck Phonics Jump

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For many games with children - both desktop, and online, and role-playing - you can use ciphers. This not only arouses interest in children, but also develops attention, accuracy, abstract thinking, oral counting skills and meaningful reading.

For almost five years now, I have been teaching encryption methods to children from the Scout Squad "Spoloh" - the acquired skills are then used for squad games, but the ciphers themselves are interesting for children of primary and secondary school age, they solve the "mysterious » messages and write them to each other. And besides, when a team of children has to read a cipher text, they also train the skills of interaction in a team, distribution of work, and achievement of a common goal. nine0003

Of course, the same can be done with children and in the family. But I want to warn parents right away: if the children get involved, then at first you will have to unravel their encrypted notes every now and then and answer them the same. In other words, to support the format of a developing intellectual game.

Encryption - that is, hiding information - appeared in ancient times. And when states, armies, wars, intelligence arose, then it became necessary to secretly transmit some information so that if it suddenly fell into the hands of the enemy, he would not understand anything. We needed secret signs to recognize our own. For example, cut a coin into pieces. People could never see each other, but if the messenger presented his half, and when superimposed, both parts coincided, then this is his own. nine0003

And the first Christians had such a secret sign - in those centuries when you could be executed for confessing the Christian faith. How could Christians recognize their own so that no one would suspect them and betray them to the authorities? Christians had a sacred sign, a symbolic image of a fish (because if you read the first letters of the phrase in Greek "Jesus Christ the Son of God the Savior", you get the Greek word "ichthys", which means fish). Therefore, one Christian could draw an arc on the ground with a cane - the arc itself did not yet mean anything. But the second Christian, in response to this, drew another arc, which together formed the image of a fish. Like this:

And both understood that they were fellow believers. And from the outside, no one would understand anything.

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In ancient times, people also invented "secret languages" that could be spoken orally, and none of the outsiders could understand this "gibberish". In the old days in Rus' there were people who were called ofeni . These are wandering merchants of various small goods - combs, beads, threads, buttons, ribbons, needles, scissors and so on. But they were not only engaged in trade, but sometimes found out various secrets, that is, their trade served only as a cover for intelligence. And now they spoke to each other in a special language - they took the word and rearranged the syllables. If the word is two-syllable, then the second syllable is spoken first, then the first. Not "stick", but "drip", not "fish", but "bars". If the word is three-syllable, then the third syllable was spoken first, then the second, then the first. Instead of "fishing" there was "bondage". And so on:

There were other old ciphers. For example, words were not written from left to right, but from right to left. Not "cabbage", but "atsupak", not "grandmother", but "akshubab". Here, for example:

Back in the old days, a cipher was often used when the letters in a word were written in a mirror image. It was possible to read such a text only by bringing it to the mirror:

But these are all rather simple ciphers that are very easy to decipher. And there were more difficult ones, we will talk about them.

The children should then be told that there are two different ways to covertly transmit the message. The first is cryptography (from the Greek "cryptos" - a secret and "grafo" - I write), translated into Russian as "cryptography". The idea is that in some cunning way we distort the text that we want to hide, and whoever does not know this way will not be able to restore it. The second method is called steganography (from the Greek "steganos" - hidden and "grapho" - I write). Here we act more cunningly - we do not change the text itself that we want to convey in any way, but we hide it among unnecessary information. nine0003

For example, we use the so-called steganographic grids . These are rectangular frames in which squares are randomly cut. Like this:

Put this frame on a piece of paper (so that the colored square is in the upper left corner) and write in the slot the message you want to hide. No punctuation marks and no spaces. For example:

Then we remove the bars and enter arbitrary letters and numbers between the letters of our message. For example:

Completely meaningless text in which the desired message is hidden among unnecessary rubbish. But whoever has exactly the same lattice will put it on this piece of paper (the highlighted square is in the upper left corner) and read the letters that will be visible in the slots.

Useful exercise: make such grids (two identical) together with the children and exchange secret messages. To make the grids completely identical, you must first make one, then put it on a piece of cardboard of the same size, circle all the slots with a pencil and cut them out with scissors. If the children are very young, the process, of course, should be controlled. nine0003

Of course, here we are not talking about modern encryption methods, which are based on very serious mathematical methods and are implemented using special computer programs. With children, we are engaged in ancient ciphers, where only paper, a pen and brains are enough to decipher.

Such ciphers are divided into two groups - permutation and substitution .

The idea of ​​permutation ciphers is that we, according to some rule, rearrange the letters in the encrypted string. If you know in advance what this rule is (or guess), then you can rearrange the letters so as to get the original string. nine0003

The idea of ​​substitution ciphers is that, according to some rule, we substitute some other letter together for each letter in the string. It may be a letter of the same alphabet, or it may be a specially invented letter (as, for example, in Conan Doyle's story "The Dancing Men" from the Sherlock Holmes cycle).

Useful exercise: come up with such alphabets together with the children, where each Russian letter corresponds to some kind of icon. For example, like this:

Or, for example, like this:

For convenience, when encrypting, we do not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters (we write all words in uppercase), we do not use punctuation marks, we write all numbers in words and (which is especially important in permutation ciphers) we denote the gap between words with an underscore: "_" . Children should immediately be told that a space is as important a sign as letters, if you forget about it, you will definitely make a mistake with encryption and decryption. That is, the text prepared for encryption should look something like this (poem by Semyon Lipkin):

The simplest permutation cipher is called "permutation by two". The idea is that we divide the string into groups of two characters, and in each of the groups we swap them. If the number of characters is odd, then we do not touch the last character, leave it as it is.

For example:

A space, denoted by an underscore, is also considered a character, just like letters.

Decryption is done in the same way as encryption: we select groups of two characters and swap them inside the groups:

A slightly trickier permutation cipher is called "permutation by three". Here we divide the string into groups of three characters, and for encryption we write these characters from right to left. For example:

Please note: we encountered two spaces in a row in the encryption. It is necessary to notice such things and understand that these are TWO gaps.

Decryption occurs in exactly the same way as encryption: from the beginning of the string, i.e. from left to right, select groups of three characters, and write them in each group from right to left:

Please note: at the end of the line, there may be one character that is not included in a group of three, in which case we do not touch it, or two characters, in which case we simply swap them.

Of course, nothing prevents permutations of four characters, five characters, and so on. It is very good if the children come up with this idea on their own. But practice shows that this happens infrequently, permutations of two and three are usually quite enough for both classes and games.

You can, of course, use invented alphabets, or you can, according to a certain rule, substitute another letter of the Russian alphabet instead of the encrypted letter.

The simplest and best known of these rules is called "plus one". The idea is that instead of the encrypted letter, we substitute the next alphabetically. Instead of "A" - "B", instead of "B" - "C", and so on. And instead of "I" - substitute "A".

This is how the "plus one" encryption is done:

Please note that here the space can not be denoted by an underscore, because with substitution ciphers, the space remains a space. nine0003

Decoding is the other way around: we replace each letter in the encrypted line with the previous one in the alphabet. And if it was the letter "A", then we replace it with "I". Like this:

And, of course, you can encrypt by taking the previous one instead of each letter, and decrypt it by replacing each letter of the encryption with the next alphabetically. We will call such a cipher “minus one”.

Note: to decrypt the text encrypted using the "plus one" method, we use the "minus one" method, and vice versa.

In the same way, you can use the “plus two” cipher, when instead of “A” we write “C”, instead of “B” - “G”, and so on, instead of “E” - “I”, instead of “Yu” - “ A", instead of "I" - "B". But it is necessary to move on to such ciphers only after the children have already mastered the “plus one” and “minus one” well.

And, of course, to work with substitution ciphers, you need to remember the alphabet well. If they do not remember it by heart, it is not a sin to use a piece of paper:

The letters of the alphabet are numbered here, and this is not accidental. In some ciphers, more complex, you need to use the serial number of the letter. nine0003

There are more complex ciphers - both substitution and permutation - that can also be mastered with children and used for games. But more about that another time.

If you just take a child, seat him in front of you and start studying ciphers with him, most likely he will quickly get bored, because he does not understand why all this is necessary. That is, there will be no motivation. Therefore, it is necessary to start with games. For example, throw a “mysterious letter” to a child - short and simple, but with interesting, fun content. Some funny rhyme, or information where the candy is hidden ... in general, the parents themselves will figure it out. When the child reads the message on his own (or with tips), then you should already talk with him about the new game - ciphers - and study them. nine0003

And not to study at once. First, you can talk about old ciphers, another time - about stegagographic lattices (and be sure to make a couple of such lattices with your own hands). Then - compose your own alphabets and be sure to write letters to each other with their help. And only then you can master the permutation ciphers, then the substitution ciphers.

At what age can children be taught ciphers? It depends on their development. I had to do this with my six-year-olds. But the general principle is that you need to start when the child already reads and writes quite fluently, that is, usually from the second grade. nine0003

And, of course, all these skills should be immediately applied to games. For example, we mastered the permutation cipher - we immediately draw (together with the child!) A map of some magical country and sign the name of cities, countries, rivers, seas with the permutation cipher.

Or we come up with some heroes (you can just take the traditional heroes of Russian fairy tales) and come up with their encrypted correspondence. For example, the Fox writes to the hare:

RPHIDO_IOKM_ENYA_D_MAT_BE_ETS_OKVSUYN_HOMKRVOKO

(come to me, I will give you a hundred delicious carrots)

Child deciphers this letter of the fox and writes the answer of the hare:

ENV_RY_YUTEL_SI_AITM_NYUSEUSHICH_chosheh. And this correspondence continues.

A poem by Valentin Berestov:

Stilts

Stilts carry me.

The guys shout: “Get down!”

I'm afraid I'll fall

Off the stilts

Straight into the mud.

And they will immediately forget,

How important I went,

But they will remember for a long time,

Where I landed.

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Permutations of three

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КАКУБ_ОТДАН_ИЛ_ЕТСОС_ЕСВП_МТСУМО

Н_ЯИЧАЮАНРП_ИВАНЬЛ_ЕООЛСОВ

О_ЯАТСЯЛВС_ЮРАТ_ЕЫИШОИКБ

П_ВАЗОЕЧВШАРЙЕНУМ_РОСЙОНОК_ИЗРЕКН

Ч_СНРЕИВОМОКАЗ_НОКНЕЧГОНД_ОЯН

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ТТОИГЯЯАВ_ЬСДУБ_ОТ_АНЗЕРКНИЕ

ЫРСЮАВЯСТ_И_УТСЮАКМ_ТЯНЕ

A poem by Denis Maslakov:

I like not to think about bad things,

As if there were no bad things at all,

As if on a completely empty sheet

I start the right word.

I leave old mistakes

In the day before yesterday's wastebasket

With the draft of the finished day.

But suddenly my forgotten mistakes

Pulling back like an elastic band

They break and hit me.

LAKERDMICI YAI VMNL

I am mild mzlz

I YKMNL NGMNL

Poem Galina Dyadina:

Wheel of reviews

on four wheels

9000 Capable Little

Another drove three

Somewhere, slowly.

A third rushes on two -

Tiny, like a dwarf.

And I roll over them -

On one wheel.

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Korney Chukovsky

We feel sorry for the grandfather of Korney:

In comparison with us, he was lagging behind,

Since Barmaleya did not read

and “Moidodyra”,

did not admire the “phone”

and B. "Cockroach" did not penetrate.

How did he grow up to be such a scientist,

Not knowing the most important books?!

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Word game for traveling with kids: 15 best options

In the summer we are always going somewhere. To the cottage by car, on vacation by train or plane. If you have children with you, there must certainly be games at the ready that you can play right without getting out of your chair. How about word games? How much do you know? nine0003

Tatyana Kolobova

1. "Twins" (Doublets)

It is said that the game D oublets was invented by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland. It is not difficult to play it, besides, this game perfectly trains the skills of recognizing vowels and consonants.

Rules: select a word (from three to five letters) and change only one letter in it. For example: t umba - r umba, m uk — r eka. Then we change the letter in the second word again, it turns out: t umba - r umba - z umba (dance), r uka - m ukamu r a. Next, we try to extend the chain. Whoever has the longer one wins!

We complicate: we take words of 6-8 letters and play by the same rules.

2. Cities

Everyone seems to know this game. What could be easier? But options are possible. nine0003

Rules : the first player starts the city, the next player must choose the name of the city starting with the last letter of the previous one: Moscow a - A shkhabad. The downside of this game is that cities with the letter A will run out pretty soon. In this case, you can switch to the game "Cities and Countries" or "Cities and Rivers" . By the way, you can also play with an atlas in your hands, because children do not know so many geographical names. And with the atlas it is convenient, informative and useful! nine0003

3 Hidden word

The hidden word is the beginning of an exciting game that never ends.

Rule: take a word and come up with a cipher for it: for each letter of the chosen word there should be one sentence, and the sentences must be connected in meaning. You can play in teams or each for yourself, the one whose cipher will be the most logical in meaning wins.

For example, choose the word "Potato". The cipher could be:

K Angtoy A Stronaut R ASPOSS T Umanny O Sh IN TAKE COMPARE

A A

A Sometimes the cipher texts turn out to be very funny, but in any case it is interesting to play!

4. Spy encryption

Come up with your own version of the letter cipher and write a secret message. Give the "key" of the cipher to the other players and offer to quickly decipher your message. The “key” can be, for example, as follows: each letter corresponds to the next letter of the alphabet in order: A=B, B=C, and so on. The word "hello" in this case will look like this: RSKGEU. nine0003

5. Guess who and what?

Depending on the complexity of the hidden word, the game can be suitable for any age.

Rules: the host thinks of a word. If you play "Guess it?", it can be a historical character, a fairy-tale hero, a mythical character, a cartoon or movie hero, one of the people everyone knows (family member, classmate). If you play "Guess who?", then you agree in advance what the hidden word refers to (a household item, an animal, a natural phenomenon, or something else). Next, the participants in the game ask leading questions to which the leader can only answer “yes” or “no”. The player who guesses the word first wins. nine0003

6. Who am I?

Variation on the theme of the game "Guess who and what?"

Rules: Each player writes a word on a self-adhesive piece of paper that can mean an object, phenomenon, person, character of a fairy tale, movie or cartoon, and sticks the piece of paper on the neighbor's forehead. Thus, the word is seen by all participants in the game, except for the one who has this word on his forehead. Each player, in turn, can ask those around him any questions about himself, the answer to which can only be “yes” and “no”. The winner of the game is the one who discovers "who am I" first. The game continues until all players have guessed themselves. nine0003

7. Crocodile

A good old game for a fun company of children and adults.

Rules : Players are divided into two or more teams. The host chooses (or the players themselves nominate) one candidate from the team, to whom, in secret, the host tells the word, which he must demonstrate to his team in any way. Pantomime, antics and jumping, waving arms and any grimaces are allowed. It is not allowed to pronounce and even articulate the hidden word without sound, write, draw, pronounce consonant words. The players themselves decide how much time is given for an explanation, usually 1 minute. nine0003

The older the players, the more difficult the presenter makes a word. How would you, for example, depict the word inflation?

8. Snowball

Great memory training game. Counselors in children's camps often use it to enable the guys to get to know each other and remember the names of everyone in the squad.

Rules : In clockwise order, everyone begins to give their names. When all the names have been sounded, on the second round, each participant calls his name and the name of the neighbor on the right, for example: Natasha, Slava. The next player says his name and the previous two, and so the snowball of names grows until someone makes a mistake. If the company of players is small (for example, a family is traveling in a car), you can add funny unusual nicknames to patronymic names that everyone comes up with. nine0003

9. Diagonal

Game with pen and notepad. It is possible - for a while.

Rules: draw a square of 7x7 cells on a notebook sheet or in a notebook. Diagonally write a 7-letter word, for example - CARABAS. Passing the notebook to each other, each participant must enter the word horizontally in such a way that the already existing letter becomes part of it.

10. Bag of associations

This game is good to play with family or close friends or relatives. nine0003

Rules: each player writes on a piece of paper a word with which he has some memory, association or story associated. The papers are folded and placed in a bag. Then each player pulls out their piece of paper, quickly remembers and tells their story associated with this word. It is very unexpected and interesting when there can be completely different responses to the same word. And how nice it is to remember something long forgotten or to hear a story rolled out by a child that you did not even suspect! nine0003

11.

Nonsense

Children aged 5-10 adore this game precisely because the process really comes out with real nonsense and you can laugh heartily.

Rules: Each participant whispers any made-up word in the neighbor's ear. The host (preferably an adult) asks everyone a question, the answer to which will be the very word spoken in the ear. For example: - What did you eat for lunch today? — Cat. - Where do you live? - In car.

The next leader is the one whose answer turned out to be closest to reality - that is, NOT nonsense .

12. Edible-non-edible

An attention and reaction game for toddlers and younger teens.

Rule : do the guys stand or converge in a circle, the leader holds a small ball in his hands and throws it selectively by the players? Saying the word at the same time. The “edible” player must catch, the “inedible” should be discarded. There are many variations of this game. For example, about animals: "Flies, crawls or swims." We agreed that we catch everyone who flies, which means that there is no need to “catch” the rest. You can play different objects in the same way, classifying them according to some attribute. nine0003

13. Contact

A very gambling game in which, if you play with children, it is very easy to forget yourself and start pulling the blanket over yourself, preventing the children from figuring out what's what.

Rules: the host thinks of a word and tells the rest of the players only the first letter. For example, this word is "zebra". Each of the players comes up with his own word with the letter Z called by the leader and tries to explain it to others using gestures and pantomime (without words!), what exactly he was thinking, without naming it. If one of the players understood what the word was intended by the one who explains, he says "There is a contact!" and both (the one who explained and the one who responded) start counting down aloud from 10, and then each say their own word at the same time. Matched - the host calls the players the second letter in his word and the game continues, only now the players need to invent and explain the word with the initial letters Z and E already set. In case the word does not match, the players continue the game. nine0003

14. The pile is small

A useful game for developing imagination. It is very good for children who have difficulty with presentations and essays. But - alas - it is not suitable for those who have not yet learned to read.

Rules: All players take turns throwing words that come to their mind - any, not just nouns. The facilitator writes them down on a piece of paper in a chaotic manner, trying to fill the entire sheet, while leaving “air” between the words. Then each of the players take turns picking up a piece of paper and connecting 5-6 words with a line, which can become the basis of a sentence, invent and voice it. The next player chooses his 5 words and the game continues until the last player has no words left for a coherent sentence.

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