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 the room. Give each of them a marker. Have each half of the room be on the team of either two people. Each side of the room can yell out suggestions for their “team”.
On “Go!”, one of the students from each team starts a sentence (If your room is big, make them run from halfway across the room up to the stage, then back again when they’re done.). The 2nd person continues with another word. It’s up to you whether the contest is a matter of time limit, number of words, sensibility, or creativity. You decide how the winning team wins. Buy a couple of those cheap paperback thesauruses or dictionaries to award as prizes.
Also, see Sentence Game (Click Here).
Jonathan McKee
Jonathan McKee is the author of over twenty books including the brand new The Guy's Guide to FOUR BATTLES Every Young Man Must Face; The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon Best Seller - The Guy's Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for youth workers on TheSource4YM.com. Jonathan, his wife Lori, and their three kids live in California.
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