Review games

Charades

Students act out a word or phrase without speaking while their team guesses. A movement-based review game that works for vocabulary, characters and historical events.

  • 🎓 Grades K–12
  • ⏱ 10–30 min
  • 👥 Two or more teams
  • 📦 Low prep
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How to play Charades

  1. Prepare slips with words, book characters, verbs or events.
  2. A player picks a slip and acts it out silently for their team.
  3. The team has 60 seconds to guess.
  4. A correct guess earns a point. Switch teams.
  5. Play until every student has acted at least once.

Variations

  • History charades: act out famous moments.
  • Reverse charades: the whole team acts and one student guesses.

💡 Teacher tips

  • Agree on hand signals first, such as holding up fingers for the number of words.
How to play Charades: printable classroom rule card with the steps, time (10–30 min), grades k–12 and prep

📌 Rule card to print or pin

The rules of Charades on one card. Print it for the board or a sub folder, or save it to Pinterest for later.

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