Words Words Words

Ideas

For your Words Words Words activity, do as many of these challenges as you like, or come up with your own ideas to suit your group!

• Wordsearches

• Crosswords

• Colouring sheets for each letter of the alphabet – could you turn these into decorations for your meeting place?

Play the family board games such as:

• Bananagrams

• Boggle

• Scrabble

• Upwords

• P is for Pizza

• You can’t say “Umm”

• Scattergories

• Letter Jam

• Speedy Words

Set yourself A-Z Challenges to complete:

• A-Z name game – go round the group going through the alphabet finding something for each letter, eg girls names, animals, sweet types, food

• A – Z stories – in small groups take it in turns to make up a sentence or story where each word is the next letter of the alphabet eg Adventurous bears cautiously danced, eager for great honey ice-cream, joyful kind lovely mothers nearby…

• A-Z with your bodies – get into teams of 3 or 4 and when the leader calls out a letter the team have to create that letter using their bodies

Create and play games in your meetings:

• Find the missing letter: Create a set of words with missing letters. Hide the letters around the meeting place. Girls have to work out which letters fit into which word

• Alphabet Treasure Hunt: Call out a letter and girls race to find an object in the meeting place starting with that letter. Example: “Find something beginning with B!” Variation: Colour + letter (“something red beginning with S”). You could also do this out on a walk!

• Teams run to write animals (or another category) from A- Z. Example A= alligator, B= Bear

• Forbidden Letter: Have a conversation without using a certain letter. Example: no “E” . Very funny because common words become difficult. Can twist it to get leaders to have the conversation, and girls to guess which letter is missing

• Word Association Duel: Players rapidly connect words

Example: ocean → wave → surf → beach : Pause too long and you’re out

• Dictionary Survivor: Give obscure real words and fake ones mixed together. Girls guess which are real

• Story in Six Words: Girls create mini-stories using exactly six words. Examples: “Dragon sneezed. Castle disappeared before lunch.”

• Secret Code Messages: Use: letter-number codes, backwards writing, symbol alphabets

• Onomatopoeic game: Using a list of onomatopoeic words (words that sound like themselves – Crash, Bang, Pop, Whizz etc – and create a game where by calling these out the girls do that action

• Go Giant: Can you create a giant scrabble board or use chalk to play it outside. You could use cardboard to make the letters or find another way to get creative

• DIY Crossword: Using tape on your floor or outside could you create your own crossword board?

• Riddle round: Can the girls solve word riddles?

• Tonge Twister showdown: create and perform tongue twisters!

• One word story: Sit in a circle, someone starts and every girl adds a word to create your own story. Leaders could start with “once upon a time” or “I went to the shops to buy...” or other!

• Unit word book: Write your own poems or riddles. Bring these together as a unit book. You could also get creative and perform them

• Design your own word game – create rules, materials and a name. Test it with your unit

Create crafts and decoration based on letters:

• Use scrabble craft tiles to create photo frames based on the girl’s names

• Alphabet bead necklaces/bracelets

• Letter collages – Cut up old magazines or newspapers and create a word-based collage. You could collage the promise or your unit name or a favourite phrase

• As a unit create bunting for each letter of the alphabet – and decorate them with things they have enjoyed doing with their Rainbows, Brownies, Guides or Ranger over the last year, or things they would like to do with the unit. (Katie - could use the region weekend bunting as a photo on the page)