Title: Musical Chairs
Type: Active Game
Target: Any vocabulary or Alphabet
Materials: Picture cards, music
Procedure: Arrange the chairs into a circle and attach a picture card on each
chair. The students must walk around the chairs while music is playing. When
the music stops students try to sit in a chair. Each round a chair is removed
meaning on student won’t get a chair. The student who misses a chair is out of
the game. However, each student who did get a chair must correctly name the
picture card of the chair they sat in. If they cannot name the card a student who
is out do to missing a chair gets a chance to name the card. If the correctly
answer, they take the place of the student who couldn’t name the card. The
game continues until there are 2 students and 1 chair left. The student who gets
the chair is the winner.
Comments: Endless variations of this game exists, including saying a sentence
with the picture card instead of just naming it, spelling the word, etc. You can
also use alphabet cards and have the student name the letter, say the sound of
the letter or say a word that starts with the letter.