Games

• Create MadLibs stories on parts of speech

• I Spy is a game where one person describes something they spy and the other person tries to guess what it is. Make the descriptions as vivid as possible.

• I’m Thinking Of is a similar game but the players can describe anything they are thinking or things in an agreed upon category like numbers. For example, “I’m thinking of a number that is bigger than 10 and smaller than 12” or “I’m thinking of a shape that looks like a snake.”

• Take turns thinking of rhyming words. Trade off who picks the first word to rhyme, and see how many rhyming words you can come up with.

• Make a tongue twister out of your names like “Sweet Sally Sue Sat Sipping Cinnamon Soda.”

• Look up prefixes and suffixes and take turns thinking of words that use them. For example, aqua makes aquamarine, aqueduct, aquatic or -ing makes going, liking, feeling, tricking, tickling.

• Think of favorite games from your childhood and play with with your child, such as Cat Catching Mice, Catch the Dragon’s Tail, Loteria, Bingo, Memory, and more.

• Get moving: Do yoga together, play red light green light, simon says, freeze dance, make an obstacle course or play follow the leader.

• Design a new game together and play it.