GROUP games for review time
- Musical chairs (place questions/ categories or cards on each chair)
- Fly swatter (swat the questions/ categories or cards to answer)
- Bean bag toss / catch (repeat the answer as your tossing the bean bag to a partner)
- Mother May I (march, baby steps, jump, hop, skip, frog jump, scissor steps, scoot on the booty, duck waddle, crab walk, deer leap, snake slither, pirouette, etc)
- 4 corners (amy mitby’s game)
- Draw back (Draw on each others backs with a finger)
- Snowball fight (get cotton balls for right answers… when all the answers are done, throw cotton balls at each other)
- Marco Polo (when someone is tagged answer a question, you could say questions and answers instead of Marco Polo “apud, with”)
- Wall Tag (tag the answer on the wall, answers taped with painters tape throughout room)
- Freeze Tag, Blob Tag (the ‘it’ person tags someone and they answer a question – they can help each other if needed)
- Freeze dance (answer a question together when music stops)
- Twister (colors represent categories)
- Hopscotch (questions in spaces)
- Obstacle course (get to go thru when you answer a question)
- Hot potato (sing history sentence… when it stops you don’t want to be holding the potato… answer a question if you are holding the potato when the music stops)
- Pretend to be a ____ today (cowboy hands lasso answers, safari with a butterfly net and canteen catching answers, hunter shooting the answer)
- Pick up items with toes only (items could represent categories or questions)
SOLO games for review time (some of these can be group games)
- Silly voices
- Eyes closed, tongue out, fish lips, opera, king, robot, baby, etc)
- Hand motions
- Dress the tutor
- Metronome movement – say the answers to the beat
- Hide small items in a sensory bin, each item represents a question or category
- Blow up a balloon and watch it fly away, or pop it
- Swing and say
- Rope Climb and say
- Mummies in the dark (answer questions while wrapped up)
In-between resetting items
- Vowel stretch – make body like each vowel, folding and unfolding the body, while deeply inhaling and pronouncing the vowel on the exhale
- Joint compression
- Body brushing
- Swinging
- Pulling or pushing the wagon
- Carry something heavy, put something heavy on lap
Sensory play for geography or letters / numbers (add spray-bottle with water for another dimension or toys to run through medium):
- Shaving cream
- Sand, dry or wet
- Lotion
- Pudding
- Gelatin
- Sweetened condensed milk
- Grains, cooked or raw
- Spaghetti, cooked or raw
- Theraputty / weighted arm or leg bands
- Cornstarch
- Tissue and (1 part glue, 2 parts water) to paint on tissue and lift off paper to leave color behind
- Applesauce
- Yogurt
- Slushie
- Slurpee
- Shake
- Toothpicks and food
- Custard
- Gently warm 2 tsp cornflour, 1 tbsp sugar, vanilla extract, 2 cups milk or milk substitute. Let cook before play.
- Playdough
- Gently warm until ball forms in pot: 2 c flour, 1 c salt, 4 tsp cream of tartar, 2 c water, 4 tsp veggie oil. Optionally add sand, safe smelly oils, or glitter. Store in airtight container.
- Ornament dough
- ½ cup cinnamon, ½ cup applesauce, 1 tsp glue is optional, mix and roll to ½” thick, make a hole with toothpicks, and let dry 10 hours
Non-sensory
Note: could set up review centers that parents help administer
GROUP games
- Jeopardy
- War (person who flips the higher card gets to answer the question. If they get it wrong the other person gets to try and answer. Correct answerer gets cards).
- Headbandz (put clues on your head and try to give the wearer clues or answers to guess what it is)
Group OR solo
- Number Dice + Color Dice (color indicates subject, # indicates review week)
- I spy / I see a steamboat coming / Memory detective – give clues to the question or answer… This is all the same game. “I see a steamboat coming and it’s loaded with…”
- Penny Toss or ping pong toss (into numbered muffin tins or cups)
- Clothesline cards (clothes pin cards to a string, see how long you can make it)
- Treasure hunt (hide cards in the room and find and answer them)
- Bingo
- Penny for your thoughts (correct answers get a penny)
- Sports skills (answer so you can try to kick a ball into the goal, etc)
- Build a tower, shoot it down
- Make a story
- Any board game (answer before your turn)
- Draw a picture
- Build a lego man
- Hangman (right answers mean you can go again, wrong answers add a body part. Or you can use actual hangman with a secret code the kids discover as they get to guess a letter with each right answer).
Solo
- Quiz bowl (cards in a bowl)
- Banana grams
- Penny for your thoughts / sweet thoughts (earn a penny or candy for each answer)
- Draw what you see / hear
- Math 500 (math review)
- Make a museum (find items that represent memory work, set up around the home, and explain to dad when he gets home)
- Target #
- String beads while listening (make a bracelet for right answers)
- Make a pasta tower (string pasta on spaghetti, stick spaghetti in putty or play dough to make it stand up, get more pasta for right answers)
- Marble pictures (marbles rolling around tray through paint) while listening