Picture Pass
Introduction
Players get a phrase and draw a picture, get picture then write a phrase, then pass
it along. In the end, everyone compares first to last.
Learning Objective
Kids will gain reading and creative writing skills.
Materials
- Paper strips or index
cards. Each player
needs as many blank
cards as there are players. For a group of 5, you need 5 cards for each player, or 25 total. - Pencils
Activity
- Explain directions and put out enough index cards or papers to play, along with pencils.
- Everyone sits in a circle and takes a stack of index cards or papers equal to the number of players.
- Each player writes a word or phrase on the top card, for example, ‘ice cream’ or ’I love ice cream,’ and passes the whole stack of cards to the right.
- Each player reads the phrase on the top card, then moves that card to the bottom of the stack. The player then draws a picture on the top blank card of the phrase they read (such as an ice cream cone, or a person with an ice cream cone and a big heart).
- Everyone passes the whole stack again to the right.
- This time, players look at the picture on top, move it to the bottom of the stack, then write a phrase that describes the picture on the new blank top card.
- Players keep going until they get their original stack back.
- Everyone compares the original phrase they wrote to the final phrase or drawing. Are they close? How far did it go?
Adapted from More Than Just Talk: English Language Learning Afterschool
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