ACTIVITIES RELATED WITH GAMES

ACTIVITY Nº 1

Name	Riddles about animals.
Duration	To 5 from 10 minutes.
Age	5- 6 years old.
Materials	Cards
	The teacher can use this activity to finish the teaching unit because the children have to know the different animals to play this game. The game can be played on the floor when children are relaxed. The teacher says a riddle and kids have to answer and tell her or him an animal. Moreover, the teacher can use different cards where there are pictures about the riddle to help children.  This activity is about animals, but the teacher can use other topics to work like jobs or fruits. For example, “What has to be broken before you can use it?”                                                    The egg.

ACTIVITY Nº 2

Name	Trivial
Duration	To 10 from 30 minutes.
Age	5-6 years old.
Materials	Board, die, pieces to play, cards with questions and answers.
	It is a game that everyone knows, but it is changed. The teacher can change the questions depend on the topic. If the teaching unit is about the colours, the questions can be about the colours or things with colours. Moreover it can be a form to evaluate children.

ACTIVITY Nº 3

Name	Simon says.
Duration	To 5 to 15 minutes.
Age	5-6 years old.
Materials	-
	Everyone have to sit down on circle in the class. The teacher says an action and children have to do that. For example “Simon says that you touch your nose”, and every children have to touch their nose. It is a form to review different topic like the parts of body or actions and verbs. It can be difficult if the teacher put conditions like “Simon says that children who wear red t-shirt touch his or her nose”. It is a form to evaluate children.

ACTIVITY Nº 4

Name	The colours’ road
Duration	To 15 from 30 minutes
Age	4-5 years old.
Materials	Photocopies of feet, paint, and colour’s die.
	The game consists in two activities. The first one is about the footprint. The teacher takes a photo of two feet each one child. And they have to paint that with the paint they want. When it was done, the teacher sticks the pictures on the floor and children have to surround it. The game resides that child rolls the colour’s die and, for example it is yellow, he or she has to go to the other side walking on the yellow’s footprint.

ACTIVITY Nº 5

Name	This is on the…
Duration	To 5 from 10 minutes.
Age	4-5 years old.
Materials	Cardboards and Velcro.
	This activity has as purpose to know the name of the rooms and the different objects of them. The teacher makes a house with cardboards with the different rooms. In each, there is an element that identifies the room. The teacher talks about the house, rooms and things there are. After that, children have to identify the rooms and put in each the different rooms.

ACTIVITY Nº 6

Name	Twister
Duration	To 10 from 20 minutes.
Age	3-4 years old.
Materials	A mat with circles in different colours, a cardboard which has the four colours and four parts of body (right/left foot and right/left, hand) and a spinner. If the teacher or any child has the game of “Twister” it is possible use it.
	Everyone knows the game “Twister”. The mat has four rows of large coloured circles on it with a different colour in each line: red, yellow, green and blue. The spinner is divided into four sections: right/left foot and right/left hand. Each of those four sections is divided into four colours. After spinning, the combination is called (for example: right hand yellow) and the player must move his or her matching hand or foot to a circle of the correct colour. A child is eliminated when he or she fall or when his or her elbow or knee touches the mat.

ACTIVITY Nº 7

Name	Touch the animal
Duration	To 10 from 20 minutes
Age	3-4 years old.
Materials	Mat, which is painted four animals, a cardboard which is divided in four animals and right/left hand and right/left foot, and a hand.
	This game is similar to “the twister”, but it is with animals. The rules are the same, but instead of circles of colours, it is with the faces of different animals, for example, monkey, fish, frog and stork. With that, the teacher can work the different animals, or types of animal (mamals, amphibians, fowls…) or their tracks, etc…

ACTIVITY Nº 8

Name	In and out.
Duration	To 5 from 10 minutes.
Age	3-4 years old.
Materials	Cellophane tape with different colours.
	The teacher sticks on the floor the cellophane with different forms, for example a circle, square and triangle. Children are around the forms and wait that the teacher says “In the circle”. Everyone has to be inside of it. The teacher can to complicate the game using the colours in the cellophane tape. For example, the teacher says “in the red circle”. Moreover, the teacher can use characteristics of children like the clothes: “children who wear red t-shirt in the blue triangle”.

ACTIVITY Nº 9

Name	Guess what my job is.
Duration	To 5 from 10 minutes.
Age	5-6 years old.
Materials	-
	A child is the volunteer to start the game. He or she thinks about a job. The child has to represent the job to the other children guess it. The child who represent cannot say anything, and he or she only does gestures. The child who guesses what the job is, he or she has to represent.

ACTIVITY Nº10

Name	Family cards
Duration	To 10 from 15 minutes
Age	4-5 years old
Materials	Cards
	We have cards with differents family members, the children have to ask other classmate about one car in particular, like “mother of the family number” if his/her classmate has that card they can continue asking if not is the turn of other child. The child who gets complete more families, win.

ACTIVITY Nº11

Name	Domino
Duration	To 10 from 20 minutes
Age	5-6 years old
Materials	Cards
	We’ll make chips. Using numbers and fruit. The children have to put the chip conecting with other that have the same number, not necessary the same fruit. The chips are going to be from number 1 to number 6.

ACTIVITY Nº12

Name	Guess the picture
Duration	To 10 from 15 minutes
Age	4-5 years old
Materials	-
	One child goes to the blackboard and the teacher says him/her one word, an object, food, animals… and the other children have to guess the picture as quick as they can. The child who guess the picture first goes to the blackboard andi s his/her turn to draw.

ACTIVITY Nº13

Name	Guess the mime
Duration	To 10 from 15 minutes
Age	4-5 years old
Materials	-
	One child goes in front of the class, the teacher says him/her one word. The child have to make movemente for explain the word he/she can’t say anithing, the rest of the class have to guess what word it is. The child who guess first goes and make other word.

ACTIVITY Nº14

Name	Parchis
Duration	To 10 from 20 minutes
Age	5-6years old
Materials	Board
	We’ll make a game similar to parchis the children have to rolling a die and goes to the next box, in each box there is a little fitting like “find 3 things red” or “say 5 differents animals” the children have 30 seconds for do this If the doing they can continue play in the next turn The child who finish first win.

ACTIVITY Nº15

Name	One
Duration	To 10 from 20 minutes
Age	5-6 years old
Materials	Cards
	We’ll made cards with diferents simbols and colours. Each child takes 6 cards. They have to play continue put in the middle of the table a card that has something similar than the card before, colour or form. The child who gets hava only one card in his/her hand win.

ACTIVITY Nº16

Name	Who’s who?
Duration	To 10 from 15 minutes
Age	4-5 years old
Materials	-
	We’ll make 2 teams and each team think one persono f this team and say it to the teacher then the other team have to guess  who is the person that they have tought. They make questions like “is he a boy?” “is he blonde” “has he got brown eyes?” and the other team only can say yes or no. The team that guess first what person it was, win.

ACTIVITY Nº17

Name	Bingo
Duration	To 10 from 15 minutes
Age	4-5 years old
Materials	Cards
	We’ll make cards with 8 pictures en each one, pictures like animals, food or other object. Each child have one card and the teacher will takes cards from a box and show the children sayind the picture. The first children who complete his/her card wins.

ACTIVITY Nº18

Name	Who animal am I?
Duration	To 10 from 15 minutes
Age	4-5 years old
Materials	-
	One child has a card with an animal in his/her head and only the rest of the children know what animal he/she is. He/she has tu ask some questions and try to guess what animal he/she is. The questions wil be like “am i green?” or “am i a big animal?”, the children only can answer yes or no.

ACTIVITY Nº19

Name	Dress the child
Duration	To 5 from 10 minutes
Age	3-4 years old
Materials	Pictures of children and clothes
	We’ll make two pictures, one girl and one boy and the children have to dress them. The teacher will say clothes one by one and the children have to take the pictures of these clothes and put on the pictures of a boy and a girl.