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Articles on ESL drawing games
Drawing on drawing games Part One – Pictionary (article of mine published in Modern English Teacher magazine)
Drawing on drawing games Part Two – Picture dictation (ditto)
Drawing on drawing games Part Three – Competition, challenges and cooperation
15 best drawing games (a much shorter summary of some of those games, on TEFL.net)
Drawing and crafts for prepositions of position
EFL drawing games blog posts
Drawing games for grammar practice
Pick and draw TEFLtastic Classics
The first idea in Three Nice New Simple Third Person S activities
Photocopiable TEFL drawing games classroom activities
NB. worksheets are mentioned in more than one section below if they cover more than one point.
Numbers drawing games – NEW SECTION
Ordinal numbers drawing games – NEW
Business and ESP drawing games
Negotiating drawing game (in this cheap as chips e-book)
and see architecture below
EFL exams drawing games
IELTS drawing games
IELTS Writing Task One drawing games (in this bargain e-book)
Functional language drawing games
Presentation visuals drawing game (in this great value e-book)
Grammar drawing games
See here.
Photocopiable phonics drawing games
Colours, numbers and alphabet/ phonics drawing game
Photocopiable vocabulary drawing games
Feelings vocabulary drawing games
Feelings and objects pick and draw drawing game
Feelings drawing and miming games
Feelings and animals pictionary
Pick numbers, shapes, feelings and face words to make crazy pictures – DELETED
Body vocabulary drawing games
Animals and body possessive S pictionary advanced version
Possessive, body and adjectives pick and draw
Draw a monster body parts practice (colours, numbers and shapes) – LINK UPDATED
Pick the body part and adjective drawing game
Animals and body parts drawing (possessive S)
Strange body positions pictionary (prepositions on position and body)
Body parts and prepositions monsters project
Animal vocabulary drawing games
Animals and body possessive S pictionary advanced version
Feelings and animals pictionary
Animals and body parts drawing (possessive S)
Appearance vocabulary drawing games
Asking for details and drawing game (question formation, directions, describing places, appearance and family vocabulary)
Appearance opposites games (including drawing games, miming games, reversi and, coin game and roleplays)
Adjectives drawing games
It is and they are with adjectives pick and draw game
Basic adjectives and nouns drawing games (including food, clothes, animals, classroom vocabulary, toys vocabulary and feelings)
Basic adjectives and nouns pick and draw
Adjectives for describing objects games (reversi, jigsaw, drawing and miming)
Adjective opposites drawing game
Basic nouns and adjectives pictionary – LINK FIXED
ed and ing adjectives drawing games
Colours vocabulary drawing games
Colours, numbers and shapes collaborative drawing game
colours, numbers and classroom objects pick and draw
Colours, numbers and alphabet/ phonics drawing game
It is and they are plus colours drawing game
Classroom vocabulary drawing games
Present Continuous and prepositions of position drawing game
Big and small classroom objects pictionary
colours, numbers and classroom objects pick and draw
Our topsy turvy school prepositions project (classroom and school vocabulary) – DELETED
Food vocabulary drawing games
Food Present Continuous pictionary
Crazy food and drink pictionary
Clothes vocabulary drawing games
Clothes and possessive s drawing game
Clothes and Present Continuous drawing game
Architectural vocabulary drawing games
Homes and architecture vocabulary pictionary
Describing architecture drawing games – LINK UPDATED
Other vocabulary drawing games
House, family and prepositions (bluffing and drawing games)
Colours, numbers and shapes collaborative drawing game
Country and nationality words drawing games
Days of the week pick and draw
British and American engineering vocabulary games (including miming, drawing, jigsaw, reversi, and dominoes, plus collocations practice)
Pick cards to draw a Xmas picture
Pick words to make an underwater picture (including colours and numbers)
Teacher training drawing worksheets
Classroom language miming/ pictionary
Updated 13 October 2026
More on the simplest and often most effective of those games here: https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/pick-and-draw/