Educational Games/Activities?

Question

I work for an afterschool program and am creating some educational games/activities for the children to work on when they either do not have any homework or they already finished it.

I am making them on card stock and laminating. They will then use either wet/dry erase markers, sticky note arrows, dice, etc. to play the games. This is sort of like file folder games. I work with PreK-K mostly, but having a few ideas for odler children won't hurt.

I am in need of some more ideas though.

I currently have the following:

5 Tic Tac Toe Sheets

5 Sudoku Puzzles (4x4 Grid)

Counting 1-20 Fill in the missing blanks

Matching Uppercase-Lowercase

Matching Number Words to Numerals

Matching Beginning Letter Sounds to their picture (ie. A is for...Apple)

A board-game like sheet where they will spin a spinner and then move to the space chosen by the color the spinner landed on if they correctly answer an addition/subtraction problem

A rhyming word game

I also have alpha dice.

Ideas?

Answer 1

Boggle would be awesome!  Or Yahtzee too.  I think you could pretty easily make up a Yahtzee board and just use regular dice.  With the AlphaDice, you can do a different version too.  

What about a plain old deck of cards?  You could do so much with that to reinforce place value and number sense.  For example, you could have a place value mat (with a box for 1, 10, 100 and even 1000) and the kids could take turns flipping a card and placing it on the board.  They can try and make the biggest number, smallest number, biggest even/odd, smallest even/odd, etc.

There is also War, but with a twist - flip down 2 cards per person and add them together.  The biggest sum wins.

You can set up a hangman board with ready made words on little cards.

There is also a great book called "Take it to your seat" centers.  The centers are all ready to go, you just need to cut and laminate.  They have them for PreK through 6th grade in both math and literacy areas.  Check out amazon.com for them.

Good luck and have fun!