Playing and spending time with your kids can be a good thing as it allows you to connect with them and also have fun with them. Playing word games is a very popular method by which people like to have a fun time with their kids and because word games also involve a little bit of educational aspect, they are always good to play with your kids. So, let’s have a look at 5 Word Games That You Should Play With Your Family:
1. The Letter Game
The Letter Game is a fun game that can be played anywhere and doesn’t even require a pen or paper. The game can be played between two or more players and start by picking a category, like colors, animals, or fruits. The first player starts by saying a word from a particular category and the new player has to say another word from the same category but the twist here is that the new word should start from the last letter of the first word.
For example, if the first player says the word ‘banana’ then the next player has to say a word that starts with the letter ‘a’ and is a fruit such as ‘apple’.The game continues on in this manner and if there are more than two players then every time a player says a word that starts and ends with the same letter, the order reverses.
2. Memory Match
Memory Match is a fun game to play and is educational for kids since they can learn new words and enhance their vocabulary. They can be played between at least two players and more players are always welcome. Before starting the game, you have to write words on slips of paper in two categories, it can be words starting with vowels and words starting with consonants, it can also be long words containing the letter E and short words containing the letter E or any other of your choice.
Once the words are written on slips of paper, place them face down on the table randomly and ask the players to choose two pieces. If the words on the slips of paper belong to the same category, i.e both words are starting with a vowel or both words starting with a consonant then the player gets to keep both of them. If the words don’t match and belong to different categories then the player turns them back over and the next player has to try his/her luck. In the end, the player with the most combinations wins.
3. Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game that is popular all over the world and is considered a family game. When played with family members then the game can be very fun, especially with young kids who do not have a chance to learn new words but also have fun.
You can gather your kids on the weekends and play with them a game of scrabble that you all will enjoy. You can also play Scrabble in pairs, with one kid and one parent teaming up and the other kid and the other parent teaming up. The objective of the game is to score more points than your opponent to win the game but this can also be a good way for kids to learn new words.
You can also introduce your kids to tools like Scrabble Word Finder that will help them to become better at the game as this tool helps improve the word-forming ability of individuals.
4. The Un-Spelling Game
We also have a really fun game, the un-spelling game which is good for families that have older kids. It is somehow similar to the letter in the sense that the game also goes around in a group, with each player having a turn once in the group.
The game is played in such a way that every player says a letter and the goal is to arrange the letters or say them in such a way that they could be a word but without actually making a word out of those letters. You can take help from tools like Anagram Solver to help you out with the game.
For Example, “E-X-A-C”, adding the letter T would make a word whereas adding the letter ‘A’ won’t. Every time a player adds a letter to the combination that completes a word or makes an impossible combination, he gets a point and whoever gets five points is automatically eliminated from the game.
5. Spelling Bee
Spelling Bee is another fun word to try out with your friends and it can be played anywhere since it doesn’t require any pen or paper. One person calls out a word while others would have to spell it. If someone fails to recite the correct spellings of the word then he/she is out of the game. Since you will be playing this game with kids, keep the words according to age.