Any Ideas for hand made Educational Games??

Question

For Ages 4-14.. any Ideas for Scentific, educational, Physical Games??

Answer 1

Print out a picture and

cut it in half - on one side put the capital A - the other side put a lower case a

or on one side put a number 1 and on the other side put one dot

You could make ribbons for physical games -attach a ribbon to the end of a bracelet and they can ribbon dance.

Science - put ice in the sensory table and put salt on it and see if it melts slower or faster than the one without salt.  Or we have also put grass seed on washrag cutouts of shamrocks and watered one and left one dry and let them predict which one will grow faster.

Lots of ideas out there - just get your brain to working!!

Answer 2

This is such a wide age range - kids these ages are at very different developmental stages, which can determine how complicated of a game you can make.

Definitely matching games - they are easy to make, just some index cards and a marker.  And you can make any sort of game you want.  Typically a word and definition match or a word and picture match.  I like to do a lot of sorting games with cards as well.  Some science-type games that I have done with cards are sorting the pictures of the animals into the biome that they belong to (tundra - polar bear, penguin, etc.; rainforest - howler monkey, butterfly, etc.; desert - roadrunner, snake, etc.).  This is age appropriate for about 10-12 year olds.

Here's one that can be scientific and physical.  Pick several students to be planets.  Give them a card with the name of their planet on it.  Ask them to physically put themselves into planet order without talking to each other.  Age appropriate for about 8-12 year olds.

Good luck.

Answer 3

playing chess is the best for stimulating the brain.

Answer 4

File Folder Games . . . they are quick, easy and fun.  

http://www.myffgames.com/

http://www.myffgames.com/

http://www.mormonchic.com/crafty/filefol...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/File_Folde...

http://www.ngcsu.edu/academic/educate/ed...

http://store.atozteacherstuff.com/downlo...

And so on . . .

Good luck!

Answer 5

For young children letter and word matching games are easy to make.

You will get loads of ideas if you visit the BBC schools web site lots of print-outs ect for educational games.

These will be relevant to what your children are learning in school.Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Here is a homemade educational game, First put down all the letters in the Alpahbet, Starting with A- and a space go all the way down, Next Have the children name girls names first, from A to Z, then boys names, then Flavors of icecream, or candy, Or name different types of foods, then animals, Then States, Make nice and neat columns of the titles,  then tell the children, the first one who completes all the letters of the alphabet in each catorgory wins a prize, and you will have a big gigantic balloon at your desk, filled witha peice of paper, inside the paper would have a note saying that this person won a trip to mcdonads for a free hanburger or shake, or something like that, Can you do it, You try it on your own, I did , dont laugh when i was bored waiting for my husband to come home from work, and i was a housewife, no kids I did it on my own and made that up, I even had a timer, its hard, use all catogories

Answer 7

transformers and pokemon.

Answer 8

you can make a jeprody game on a powerpoint