Puzzles, Games, and Brain Teasers

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  End-of-School Bingo Game

  $6.00

  Use this End-of-School Bingo Game as part of your strategy for keeping things in a sane mode during those intense after-testing days. There is even some vocabulary to be learned in the process.
  Everything is ready to go. You will need to do only two things: (1) Print the 25 filled playing cards in color or black and white. (2) Print the last three pages with the 90 end-of-school/vacation related vocabulary words and cut apart their individual squares so they can be pulled from a container to call the games. Students will need some sort of tokens–25 pennies, for example–to cover the squares on their cards.

  Print everything on card stock and use year after year.

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  Thanksgiving Bingo Package

  $6.00

   

  This Thanksgiving Bingo package contains twenty-five filled, game-ready playing cards constructed from seventy-six Thanksgiving-related vocabulary words. The target words are formatted on the last two pages so that they can be printed on card stock, cut apart, and pulled from a container to call the games.

  Great fun in classrooms, club meetings, and family gatherings.

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  Brain Candy for Young Scholars (Digital Download)

  $20.00

  Brain Candy for Young Scholars is a ninety-four page collection of fun (and challenging) seasonal vocabulary builders, researchable trivia, and graphic organizers for writing. Choose from two or more activities each month, or use all of them. The activities are especially suitable for gifted programs in grades four through eight and for regular sixth through eighth-grade classrooms. View the sample pages for a better idea of content and difficulty level. For a complete lesson from Brain Candy, go to our Free Stuff page and download the June/July file in the Seasonal Group. View

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  Vocabulary/Spelling Bell Ringers and Start-ups for 6-8 Grades

  $6.00

  The activities in this set of 14 bell ringers and start-ups, written with 6th-8th graders in mind, are all spelling oriented.

  They focus on various letter combinations (-ough, ought), the i before e rule and its exceptions, homophones, words with numerous vowels, commonly misspelled words, and puzzles that require the correct spelling of random words.

  Full answer keys are included.

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  Christmas Song Titles in Gobbledygook

  $3.00

  Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students are challenged to identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into two handouts–Set One with twelve titles and Set Two with fourteen. An introductory page for students explains the nature and origin of the term.

   

  The last page is a graphic organizer for writing a letter to Santa in gobbledygook.

   

  Though some youngsters may be initially flabbergasted, do give this lively lesson a try. What better way to provide insight into the fun and the power of words?

  Post Script: Feedback indicates that this product is at hit at adult and family Christmas gatherings and in teachers’ lounges. After all, why should our students have all the fun?

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  Thanksgiving Anagrams

  $3.00

  How does one change “grim lips” into “pilgrims?” With anagrams, of course.

  Thanksgiving Anagrams challenges students to rearrange the letters of some rather strange terms to create ordinary words and phrases associated with Thanksgiving.

   

  This file is organized into two activities with twenty-five items each. Full answer keys are provided.

   

  Five pages of script plus cover page.

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  Halloween Puns

  $3.00

  Howl-o-ween Puns is mostly for fun, but learning is also an intended benefit of this activity. Students are instructed to check out the condition of their punnybones by reading Halloween-related riddles and spotting the pun in the collection of possible answers.

   

  This file has two different sets of riddles with 25 items each for students to sink their teeth into. For teachers, there is an extra page of Halloween riddle-puns and a second page of anytime-puns that can be used to construct another lesson or two.

   

  Full answer keys are included. Eight total pages counting cover page.

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  Thirty Days Hath September. . . Phrases with Numbers

  $3.00

  Phrases, titles, product names, and exaggerations constructed with numbers–we quote them, hear them, see them, but seldom stop to think how useful they are. In this brain teaser, they are the stars.

  Treat your students to a view of our language from a different angle with this four-part activity, 20 items each. Also included are full answer keys and a list of additional number phrases that creative teachers and students may use as resources for another activity.

  Excellent resource as a bell ringer/startup, an addition to your substitute file, or as a fun challenge when your students need something different.

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  Occupation ID

  $3.00

  Occupation ID challenges students to study sets of 5 words and phrases that connect to a particular occupation and then make a correct identification. Each of the two parts is composed of 28 items.

  Answer keys are included. Six total pages counting cover.

  This product was written and formatted with 6th-8th graders in mind, but some 4th and 5th graders might also approve.

   

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  Back Words for Back-to-School Vocabulary Brain Teaser

  $3.00

  Add “Back Words for Back-to-School Vocabulary Brain Teaser? to your bag of tricks for getting the new school year off to a happy start.

  First, is a two-part activity that challenges students to interpret clues and identify fifty terms or phrases that contain the word back.

  Full answer keys are included.

  Also located on the answer key page is an idea for a WELCOME BACK word-chain bulletin board that students can construct on the spot.

  Finally, a list of “back” words and phrases not used in the two activities and a separate list of “school” words and phrases are included as a teacher’s resource for assigning student-created puzzles, poems, posters, etc.

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  Contrived Math Brain Teaser

  $3.00

  This product is for those students and their teachers who enjoy solving somewhat twisted, definitely unusual (aka “tricked out”) word math problems.

  An equal combination of language arts and basic math skills, Contrived Math challenges participants to collect common data, such as the number of days in a year, shuffle it around according to instructions, and come up with a targeted answer.

  The activity is divided into two parts of twenty problems each. Full answer keys are included.

  Eight total pages counting the cover page.

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  Word Chain Circle Puzzle for Valentine’s Day

  $2.50

  Surprise and delight your students with this different kind of word puzzle, which moves in a circle rather than the traditional lateral/perpendicular format of a crossword puzzle.   Presented with a Valentine’s Day theme, this puzzle challenges students to use the given clues and connect the ending and beginning letters of words–again and again–until the last word circles around and connects to the first one.

  A fun vocabulary workout for 4-8th graders.

  Answer keys are included.

   

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  I Have, Who Has. . . Fictional Couples Game for Valentine’s Day

  $4.50

  From Mickey and Minnie Mouse to Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the literary world offers a variety of couples whose stories mirror the romantic ups and downs of the real world.

  This I Have. . Who Has. . . game features 28 couples on 28 playing cards. Some, like Mickey and Minnie, live in the land of cartoons. Others are imaginative renditions of people with strange quirks, including the likes of Herman and Lily Munster. Romeo and Juliet are among the choice few who earn a special place in our hearts as timeless examples of true love.

  This selection of love-struck characters will have particular appeal to middle school students (5th-8th)  Use this game to give their Valentine’s Day a little extra luster, even if it is based in fiction. They will be right at home!

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  Christmas Bingo Package

  $6.00

   

  Treat your students (and yourself) to a game or two of Christmas Bingo on that last, excitement-saturated day before the holiday break. The only preparation required is printing the material.

  You get twenty-five filled, game-ready playing cards constructed around ninety Christmas-related vocabulary words. The target words are also formatted on the last three pages ready to be printed on card stock, cut apart, and pulled from a container to call the games

  Also suitable for clubs, family gatherings, or any holiday get-together.

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