September 29, 2025
September 29, 2025
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Creating cards for the Spoons review game
Creating cards for the Spoons review game
Piggybacking on last week's Google Slides hacks, see how using Google Slides to make cards for your review games is fuss-free!
This issue will focus on how to digitally create the cards for the review game of Spoons using your content. Below, in the offline portion, we will cover how to play the game in class.
I used the instructions for formatting a Google Slides for printing by making it printer paper-sized, which was referenced last week. (Hack #1) This is the basis for my cards.
Next, I created a four-pane template for the cards on the first slide.
In the game of spoons, you need to be able to make 4 card sets to win. So each term, idea, concept, date, person, place, thing, character, etc needs one slide, with four connecting bits of information. See image below.
I right-clicked on my slide that is formatted the way that I need and selected "Duplicate Slide" to make the subsequent slides.
You can have as many sets as your content requires, but for a good game of spoons, I recommend at least 10, so there are ample cards.
Once you have a template that works for you, it is easy to duplicate the file and edit it for future units of study and different games.
🎁 I made you a template to get you rolling that has multiple subject area examples, which you can copy by clicking here.
Have ChatGPT help you come up with the definitions, connections, image suggestions (can't make them), and even the terms you should use based on your content, curriculum, or unit of study.
Now that you have made your cards using Google Slides, it's time to play!
You'll print out several sets of the cards (slides) for your class on cardstock.
Cut them apart and create decks for play.
Materials:
Deck of cards
Plastic spoons
Answer key for the matches (print the slides)
Student groups of 4-6
How to Play:
Sit in a circle.
Each student gets 4 cards to start.
Set the spoons in the middle.
You need one less spoon than the number of players. If there are 5 players, you need 4 spoons.
The object of the game is to get 4 of a kind. Match the four cards that go with the main term/concept card. The answer key can be used to check the accuracy of matches.
One person starts with the pile of the remaining cards. (They are the start)
The person to their left is the “trash.” They are at the end of the card line and will have the pile of leftover cards.
The start person picks up one card. If they want to keep the card, they must remove a card from their current hand. They can only have 4 cards in their hand at a time. If they don’t want the card, they pass it to the person to their right.
The cards are constantly being passed in a circle. The game needs to move fast!
Once a person has 4 of a kind, they grab a spoon from the middle.
Everyone else then stops playing and has to grab a spoon. The person who doesn’t get a spoon is “out.”
Every time someone is removed from the game, you take away a spoon. There must always be one less spoon than the number of players.
Keep playing until there are only two players.
The player with the last spoon wins!
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