Calling all minds who make up games or know some!!!

[Lisa M]

Here's the delima:

I need a game that involves food/candy to teach 1 or more of the 8 parts of speech.


8 parts of speech are: noun, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, conjunctions, interjections, prepostions.


I'm tapped out. I've surfed the net 100x's over, and probably some more, but I can't seem to narrow down games to use food/candy to teach parts of speech.


A bonus is to have a theme around "Halloween" or "Harvest".


So...if you have ANY game ideas, I'd be every so grateful!!!!

[cathyjobob]

Re: Calling all minds who make up games or know some!!!

How about making a story based off of the names of the candy that uses primarily, say adjectives and verbs? Then using it like a madlib...you know where some of the words are removed and the player is instructed to enter either a noun, or a verb, etc. I loved madlibs growing up. Then the person with the funniest one wins a piece of candy.

Ex: then the Gummy Charleston Chew ran off with the sweet, little sugar baby...and boy was her old sugar daddy mad.

You could even make it a halloween story.

I know it's kind of lame, but it's late and it's all I got...lol.

What is your demographic? Kid's, adults? It would help to know.

[Lisa M]

Re: Calling all minds who make up games or know some!!!

I could just hug you to pieces!! Thank you!!!! Not lame at all....nope nope nope!

I found madlibs online...but I didn't have an idea how to use them with candy. Since we have to make the game centered around a Halloween theme, I think your idea is totally doable.

The audience is for students somewhere between the grades 2-6 since the 8 parts of speech go into more detail during these grades.

Thank you so much for your help! I'll be sure to fill you in on the final product. I'm pretty sure I'll use the madlib idea because it can do two things with how students learn: kinesthetically for having the candy in their hand to touch, smell, see, and taste; as well as being able to read it out loud to eachother when complete to hear how it sounds...the funnier the better.


You've made my Friday!!! Super Duper hugs of thanks!!!!

[cathyjobob]

Re: Calling all minds who make up games or know some!!!

You've made my Friday!!! Super Duper hugs of thanks!!!!

I'm glad I posted it! I wasn't going to say anything b/c I thought my idea wasn't good! LOL.



I hope the kids have fun with it.

[2big4mysize]

Re: Calling all minds who make up games or know some!!!

how about having them make candy pictures of a sppoky haunted house and then discribe (adjectives) the things they buit ( the nouns and the pronouns) and the locations of those things realative to the other things ( prepositions) and what the things are doing (verbs and adverbs). and you know kids use run on sentences so as you write the story of the pictures below on the page you can use the conjuctions