Listing of games/activities #1

Many of these apply to Cycle 2, but can be modified for any CC cycle.

Idea Generator:

Decorate T-shirt with memory verses or Vocab words

Paper Mache flour-water 1/1 + paper - make something!

Solar System Mobile

Make a constellation-cover tube, poke holes, flashlight through

Create a terrarium

Science Museum Scavenger Hunt

Science Hunt-circles, metal, trees, earth, wheels, gears, measures, sound ocean

Food of Medieval Times

Bubbles 1 gal water, 40 drops gylc. 1/2 cup dishwash liquid

Castle Knights Kings Princess

Create a catapult

Write Letters to Soldiers

Make homemade paper

Write a Medieval fairy tale

Research famous Medieval characters

Eat like a Barbarian Day-no utensils!

Make a Marionette

Do plant rubbings

Mobius Strips

Balloon Bottle with baking soda and vinegar

Medieval bean-cake with hidden bean, bean finder is king of the feast

Blindman's Bluff

Chess, checkers & backgammon

Dice or Dominoes

Music of the times-recorder, horns, trumpet bells and drums- make or play

Taste the Era-water w/honey, barley breads, thick stew

Read Romantic Prose

Read about Epic Battles

Read Fables

Research Myths and Legends

4-square Questionnaire

Dance to the grammar

Jeopardy

Watch YouTube Educationals

Chalk Challenges-make "levels" questions get harder per level. Write on driveway, can't leave level until answer question correctly.

H.O.R.S.E.  (get to shoot if ? correct)

Card games  (so many!!)

Make up Silly Songs/Sentences/Rhymes/Handshakes/Motions/Faces

Decorative word challenge day-who can say the most decorative words in a day

Chart Races-fill out EEL charts fastest

Money Games - do skip counting with coins

Measurement Challenge-give 10 measures, they have to find in house or yard.

Subject Bingo to choose ?

Wheel of Fortune  - Latin words, or history lists etc

Read aloud to tapes or computer and play back for your kids

Trivia match, like memory but matching cards are related, not exact. IE Scientist and invention, Latin-english, history-year etc

Multiple choice with goofy answers mixed in

Collage of a subject

Scrabble (for spelling and thinking skills)

Cooperation games

Word of the week- get a marble each time you use in correctly in a sentence, most marbles at end of week gets to bake cookies. (all are winners)

Relay Races-answer question, move on

Obstacle course-questions are part of obstacle

Hangman-guess keyword-elaborate

Vocab Pictionary

Elimination-Buzzer-3sec to answer-mix in goofy questions (which is bigger, a bus or an elephant?)

Vocab buster-who can say most in 30 sec.

Memory with Vocab words, who can remember the most without prompts.

Question bag-roll dice-highest die reaches in, get question right, get the #- first to 10 wins

Hidden Cards-Hide question cards throughout house-person who can find and answer most wins

Computer games online- tons!

Photo Scavenger Hunt-list of items with photo only-team effort

Shuffleboard/hopscotch quiz-# land, difficulty of question

Word Search-make online with whatever words you want. http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp

Puzzle races with Geopuzzle

Wii challenge-must do question before and after turn

Coin toss challenge-head gets question, tails does not

Google Earth adventures-fly around the world.

Body, plant, geography, insect puzzle-draw out, cut up

Rollerskating-each round, get a ?

Name that timeline card  (hints from back)

GeoDrawing Challenge

Magnet Fishing-magnet on string, paperclips on cards chooses subject or question or for fun

Play Yahtzee, blackjack, cards-multiplication or addition "War"

Family read or Book club-read same book, discuss

Deep Holiday research for various countries

Mimic the artist painting/drawing

Do Random Acts of Kindness

Make a Thankful Tree

Eat at a related restaurant to study- practice foreign language on servers! Talk about foods, customs.

Sequence Card challenge

Make a flipbook

Create a weapon of era -bow/arrow/catapult

Do Photography TimeLapse or make simple video

Make applehead dolls- carve an apple face, let dry, make body. (toys of old) Or make other old fashioned toys-stick and hoop, etc  http://www.appledolls.org/page2.html

Make silly putty  http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,make_silly_putty,FF.html

Make leaf placemats with sticky clear contact paper

Stargaze

Hula hoop contest-discuss motion

Do nature sculpture

Do Self Portraits

Marshmallow sculptures

Create a marble run with things around the house

Visit the elderly-listen to stories, hand out flowers or candy Do Feed My Starving Children, study the country it will go to

Wash the car-discuss parts

Pick your own veggie etc      farms, garden, plant recognition hunt w/pix Cook up some fun- plant cell pizza, animal cell cookie, jello molds of parts and things let your imagination go wild.... Flowerpot pens- parts of the plant Word twist, string together 6-8 vocab or latin words, have kids make as many words as they can find.