Title – Mysterious Letters

By – J. P.

Primary Subject – Language Arts

Grade Level – 1-3

This game will let kids have fun, while unscrambling vocabulary words!

(Recommended for a classroom with only 15-20 kids)

Materials: Construction paper (or colored index cards), markers, and a room with objects all different from each other. (Include bracelets if you would like to identify teams.)

Instructions: If you have paper, cut the paper into sixths or eighths. On the paper, write letters from words on the current vocabulary list. Draw beforehand a set of objects in the room for each team, each of the sets DIFFERENT. DO NOT USE THE SAME OBJECTS FOR 2 TEAMS.

Next, hide the papers in places. Ex: If you drew a lamp, put 2 pieces of paper under the lamp, consisting of a letter and different object. This will lead the kids to yet another object with another pair of a letter and object, and so on. The team will know if the paper is theirs because of the color. (Remember to label the final destination paper with a happy face and not a letter or object! ) Divide the classroom into 3-5 groups, and give each team a color. Before the teams start to hunt, you must give each team a starting piece of paper with an object on it, not a letter. The game begins.

Object: The first team to find all the letters and the happy face, and then unscramble the letters, WINS!

Note: I privately tutor a child, and this game works great with a single kid! Except the object is to do it in a certain amount of time!

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