This is the newest and simplest of the drawing games I mentioned in my last post, especially suitable for students who are learning to read and/ or who need help putting together basic sentences, mainly meaning primary school kids.
Students pick words from a pack of cards with words written on them to make a sentence describing something that can be drawn like “I” “am” “riding” “a horse” or “The cat” “is” “on” “the picture”. As with those examples, it is best if the available words allow them to make amusing pictures and/ or pictures including themselves and people they know such as their classmates. You can also characters from places like their textbook and Disney movies.
You might want to print different kinds of words on different colours, shapes or sizes of paper (e.g. prepositions on small red cards), especially with lower-level classes or if you want to play with the cards face down and so get students to chose at random.
Students can all choose at the same time, being allowed to draw whenever they have made a correct sentence, or you can make them take turns. You also have the option of removing cards from the pack once they have been used (too much), or leaving them all in to be used many times in different ways.
Students can then move onto writing and/ or saying their own sentences so that they are allowed to draw those things, or a more fun variation is for them to make another set of cards to play the same game with.
Photocopiable pick and draw classroom activities
Colours numbers and clothes drawing game (with optional Present Continuous “is wearing”) – NEW
Possessive S Halloween pick and draw
There is/ There are and preposition Halloween drawing game
Is it a/ an with adjectives pick and draw
It is and they are with adjectives pick and draw game
What’s in the… there is there pick and draw
Possessive, body and adjectives pick and draw
Countable and uncountable pick and draw drawing game
Feelings and objects pick and draw drawing game
This that these those pick and draw drawing game
Pronouns and prepositions pick and draw drawing game
Adjectives and prepositions pick and draw drawing game
How many are there pick and draw drawing games
Possessives and adjectives pick and draw drawing game
Basic adjectives and nouns pick and draw
Does he/ she like pick and draw game
Days of the week pick and draw
Colours, numbers and classroom objects pick and draw
Clothes and Present Continuous drawing game
It is/ They are and colours pick and draw game
Whose is this?/ Whose are these? drawing game
Personal pronouns and possessive adjectives drawing game
It is/ They are plus possessive adjectives drawing game
Colours, numbers and alphabet/ phonics pick and draw game
Draw a monster body parts practice
Clothes and possessive s drawing game
Possessive adjectives drawing game
Present Simple reading, speaking and drawing game
Pick the body part and adjective drawing game
Pick cards to draw a Xmas picture
Pick numbers, shapes, feelings and face words to make crazy pictures
Pick words to make an underwater picture (including colours and numbers)
The game can also be played with words just written on the board, perhaps with students throwing sticky balls (= sucker balls) to choose words to draw.
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