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whiteheads
This gross game is played up front with 2-4 teams of 3 people each while the crowd watches. You’ll need one large tub of creamy peanut butter and several bags of mini-marshmallows. (If you have students allergic to peanuts, shaving cream is a good option, but you'll need to use something other than marshmallows.)One team member must smear peanut...
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christmas-poem-mad-lib
Read portions of the poem, “’Twas The Night Before Christmas” like a Mad Lib. Ask your audience for words (parts of speech). Use a grease board to write words on. Have a sharp student come up and read the new “poem”. FYI: You will need – total nouns, - plural nouns, - adjectives, - verbs, and 2 past tense...
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mad-sentence-dash
Use this up-front game before any holiday (so you have an automatic theme) to promote an upcoming event, or just for fun. Pre-select a theme to give students an idea of what sentence they’re about to come up with.Set up two dry erase boards up front. Get 4 students (2 teams of 2) to come to the front of...
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gum-tag
Get 4 students to come to the front of the room. On a table, for each person, have an oversized shirt, 2 oven mitts and a jar full of hard chewing gum (the harder the better, takes more time). Each member is to run from a certain spot up to the table, put on the oversized shirt, then the...
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toilet-paper-bowling
This is an indoor game for 2 or more players.The object of the game: Get your toilet paper to roll over the feather that is sticking out of the ground 12 feet away. (If indoors, simply tape the feather so that it will stand up on a small piece of thin cardboard.)The first player must toss the toilet paper...
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