Word Games

Do you have any word games at home?  Do you remember any that you played as a child?

Board Games / Boxed Games

• Scrabble™
• Jr. Scrabble™
• Boggle™

Word Games using pencil and paper

• Hangman
• Word Searches
• Crossword Puzzles

Word Games - no equipment required

• I Spy With My Little Eye
• Cumulative word games : 
• Player 1 "For the picnic I brought a watermelon."
• Player 2 "For the picnic I brought a watermelon and a cheese sandwich."
• Player 3 "For the picnic I brought a watermelon, a cheese sandwich and a ...."
• (keep going until someone forgets something, have a good laugh, and start a new list!)
• Repetitive chants - Eg. "Going on a Lion Hunt"
• Storytelling chants
• Call and response chants
• Make up a story together - leader says part of a sentence, then lets the next person fill in an important detail and continue the story.  Keep passing it along, and see how the story evolves!
• Places in the world game - Player 1 says the name of any real place in the world.  Player 2 has to use the last letter of that place as the first letter of another place in the world.  Keep going until somebody is stumped!
• Silly sentences - make silly sentences using the same letter to start almost every word in the sentence. 
• Tongue Twisters

Looking for more ideas?  Try:
https://www.todaysparent.com/family/activities/word-games-for-kids/#gallery/9-fun-word-games-for-kids/slide-4

What other word games were fun for you when you were a child?