6 Quick And Addictive Classroom Games For Busy Teachers

22 August 2016

You have little time to spare, but your students insist on playing a game. Or maybe you just like to end or start the class on a high note.

Students love a good game, but with only 5 or 10 minutes free, the options are often limited and therefore quickly become old and repetitive.

Spice things up with these 6 quick and fun-filled games that are sure to inject a little burst of energy into your lesson.

Whozit? Whatzit?

Even if you only have five minutes to fill, these little puzzles are quick and can be great fun. Each puzzle contains a number of simple and familiar words. When students read and sound them out, the words reveal the name of a well-known person, character, thing, place, or phrase. With the puzzles up on the whiteboard, students write and keep their answers to themselves and the teacher wanders around the room checking their guesses. After a few rounds, the teacher announces the winner to hand a prize to!

Password

An old TV game show, password can be easily played in the classroom too. With two students as the contestants, they stand at the front facing the rest of the class. The teacher decides on a secret password and reveals it to everyone excluding the contestants. Students can raise their hand and be chosen to offer one-word clues that can help them guess the password — first one to do so, wins! Ready for the next contestant to face them.

Dictionary Deception

Based on a popular board game, dictionary deception is a fact-packed game where students have to guess the meaning of a word provided by the teacher. With the word up on the board, and its real definition on a piece of paper, students try and guess its meaning and write down their answers. Later, the teacher reads each definition aloud (usually causing giggles) along with the real one, and asks the class to raise their hand when they think one is right. Points are awarded to the correct students and the game continues for several rounds until the winner is announced!

Four Corners

This one is a popular game which may already be familiar to some teachers. To begin, the teacher numbers the corners of the classroom from 1 to 4 and selects a student to be “It." The person who is It closes their eyes while students scramble to a corner of their choice. The chosen person then calls out a random number, and whichever students are in that corner are now out of the game. It continues until there are only 4 students left who all must pick a corner each, eventually leaving just one person standing. They win, but they are also now It!

Seven Up, Stand Up

Another old favourite, Seven Up, Stand Up, starts with seven students being chosen to be ‘It’. While they stand at the front of the classroom, the other students put their heads on their desks so they can't see. The seven wander the room, tapping one of the students each on the head. The tapped students raise their hands and the seven return to the front of the class to say "Seven up, stand up!” The standing students guess which student tapped him or her, and if they guess correctly, he or she replaces the person who did the tapping.

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