Spanish Flash Card Games and More!

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The Spanish Flashcards featured here and in the Flip Flop Shop are the best out there! Why? Because they have photos, not cartoons, on one side, and the Spanish and English translations on the reverse. Many cards have the words on the same side as the picture, which is not ideal for learning or "quizzing" your students!

Car Bingo in Spanish!

This summer, make a list of the things you'll see on your next car trip, and make a few grids to mark as you see the items. Things like restroom stops, exits, trees, signs (different types) trucks, and more... are great practice and keep your trips educational and exciting.

If you don't have time (or artistic talent!) to make your own game boards, try one from below - you'll have to look up the words they list and make a translation sheet, but these are both good alternatives. Clicking on the pictures will take you to Amazon.com to read more on these two games.

Be sure your children call each word out in Spanish as they play!

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New! Learning Language with the Shell Game

The Shell Game

Here's a great game to spice up any vocabulary lesson!
For any list of three or four new words, use the age-old "shell game." But there's a twist - instead of finding which shell (or plastic cup at our house) has something under it, the child or student is simply having to remember the Spanish word (or any language) for the item that is uncovered. Here's an example:

We studied animals one week:
el gato - cat (gah-toh)
el perro - dog (peh-roh)
el pájaro - bird (pah-hah-roh)
el pez - fish (pehs)

After studying the words and doing our weekly activities, we took little people (fisher price, I think) and placed one animal under each of four cups (be sure they're not see-through!) If you don't have actual figures, a half-index card with the picture on it - from a magazine, or sticker, or draw it yourself, should fit under fairly easily. 

Slide the cups around rapidly, trying to follow them with your eyes. Then one partner uncovers an animal. The other person has to say it in Spanish in order to keep it. Switch turns. The person that guessed now gets to move the cups. The guesser chooses a cup - hopefully there's an animal underneath! If there is, you must say the Spanish word. If there is no animal, or the wrong word is guessed, the turn passes to the opposite player. Keep taking turns until all four animals are gone. The player with the most animals wins. To make it more advanced, add a fifth cup, to make it easier, take one cup (and one word) away. 

Fun Spanish Game: Flashcard Memory

Flashcard memory

With all the different "memory games" on the market, you can pick and choose animals, or use the Winnie the Pooh set and name the actions shown in each picture, or any set you already have. 

Be sure to use a smaller set of cards - depending on the age of your child, not the whole box. As you lay them out, say the Spanish word for each picture. After each player turns over two cards, they repeat the Spanish words for the pictures. If they get a match, they only can keep the pair if they are able to say the Spanish vocabulary word!

The person with the most matching pairs wins.

Fun Spanish Game: Flashcard Fishing

Spanish Flashcard Fishing Game

For this game, choose three cards your child is already familiar with and place them in a paper sack, pillowcase, or any container that conceals the three cards. As you place them in the bag, name them in Spanish together.

The child must then choose which word he will be "fishing" for. He will call out the word, then reach in the bag without looking. If he gets the card he was hoping for he keeps it. If not, he must throw it back.

When he "catches" the correct card, he must say the word in Spanish to be able to keep the card. Work your way up from three to five cards as he becomes more adept at remembering the words that are in the bag. Choosing the three cards based on a common theme also aids in memory.

Alternate turns until the bag is empty. The person with the most cards wins.

Fun Spanish Game: Flash card Charades

Spanish Flashcard Charades

This game is similar to teaching vocabulary charades. Happily, you, the parent, actually get to play and guess with abandon!

Pick ten cards or so from the flashcard pile that you and your child are already familiar with. Place the cards on the table, picture side down. Each player takes turns choosing a card and acting it out. Other players call out the SPANISH meaning of the action. If a child is not yet reading, he simply refers to the picture.

The first person to say the correct Spanish word wins and then keeps that card. At the end, the player with the most cards wins.

Fun Spanish Game: en la casa

Spanish Flashcard Room Sort

Choose 4 items that can be found in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and family room. Mix the 16 cards up in one pile, and have your child lay them out, picture side up. Ask them which ones belong:

en la sala - the living room

en la cocina - the kitchen

en el baño - the bathroom

en el cuarto - in the bedroom

After your child says the Spanish word and divides them up, take each pile (one at a time) to the correct room and set the card by the item. Say the Spanish word three times!

To add more excitement, have him stand in the doorway and time how long it takes him to place the cards and say the word three times for all the cards. Which room could he do the fastest?

All these words are in the Picture Words Spanish Flashcards Set in the Flip Flop Shop

El (ehl) , la (lah), los (lohs), and las (lahs)....are not in the pronunciation guide.

Fun Spanish Game: Story telling, for ages six and up

Había una vez --- Once upon a time. (ah-bee-ah-ooh-nah-behs)

Choose three cards for each person and lay them out on the table, picture side up. After reviewing the Spanish words, have each person tell a short, silly story using those three words.

To make it more creative, add to each other's stories!

Here's an example: Habia una vez una escoba. La escoba was very triste. He needed un amigo. So la silla said he would be la escoba's friend. La silla and la escoba lived together in una mesa, until my mom came to sweep. She took the escoba and la silla was sad. But my mom said they could play together until she needed to sweep again. So la escoba, la silla, y la mesa lived happily ever after.

Fun Spanish Game: Vocabulary BINGO

BINGO! (been-goh) Materials needed: Bingo card, pennies (or any item to cover boxes), coffee can or shoe box, scraps of paper or index cards.

To review any list of vocabulary - colors, numbers, animals, anything - print out a Bingo card. (Right click and select save the image so you can use it again and again, or just print)   
   
COLOR BINGO: Fill in each box with colors (your three year old can easily scribble a color in each box and say the Spanish color three times as he does so). Toss the crayons you used into a shoe box or coffee can and take turns pulling them out to mark the correct spot -

(Our 2 1/2 year old likes to mark an X on the box rather than cover it with pennies - he can only sit for one game at a time,anyway - But our 4 year old likes using tiddly-winks to cover the boxes so he can use his game card over and over)

ANYTHING ELSE BINGO:If your child can draw, have him draw pictures of items from his vocabulary list. Otherwise, use clipart or stickers (Farm Animal Stickers are coming in the Flip Flop Shop!), or draw stick figures yourself as you say the words together three times while you draw.

Next, write the words on scraps of paper and toss them in the coffee can or shoe box - you can read the words as you put them in one at a time as well for another round of review.

Be sure to play with him so the competitive edge drives them to succeed and remember - you can't win unless you can name your winning row in Spanish!

Fun Spanish Game: ¡Me gusta!

Las Bolsas (lahs-bohl-sahs)- Me gusta y no me gusta lesson

Materials needed: two paper sacks, lunch size.

flash cards, pictures, or small items your child likes and dislikes

one sheet of paper

Set-up: Label the Bags Me gusta and No me Gusta, and write the 6 or 7 items you have to work with in a list on a separate piece of paper (in Spanish!)

Your child will take the flashcards (or small items) while your back is turned (or eyes closed) and then puts the items in the bags according to his or her preferences. Then you guess, from the list you have written already, what items are in which bag. She answers Si or no as you guess and you get an X or check next to that item on the list (we used a pencil so we could play again without making a new list each time)

The number of Checks you get is your score. Then it's your turn to put the items in the bags. Of course, the entire time, you are to speak Spanish only - and you can introduce (or review)

Por que'? (Why?)

Porque es...feo, or Porque es mi favorito. (Because it's...ugly,...)

Porque es rojo y me gusta rojo. Etc.

A fun way to get to know more about the partner and practice asking questions:

¿O sí, Te gusta eso? ¡Interesante! (Really? You like that? Interesting!)

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