Activities and games for primary school children

I recently researched different activities and games to give me inspiration, as I  wanted to incorporate a game on the packaging or somehow in the lunch box design. Make it interesting and fun to engage children with the product.

• Word games
• ·      Charades or mime
• ·      Match games
• ·      Memory games
• ·      Scrabble
• ·      Name games
• ·      Silly sentence skit
• ·      Palindromes – playing with words that can be reversed but be the same word
• ·      Rebus making – using pictures to make a sentence or statement instead of words
• ·      Quick on the draw
• Pretending
• Guessing games
• Contests
• Talent shows
• Arts and craft
• Board games
• ·      Monopoly
• ·      Scrabble
• ·      Cards
• ·      Uno
• ·      Pictionary
• ·      Twister
• ·      Mouse trap
• ·      Connect 4
• ·      Yatzee
• ·      Jigsaw puzzle
• ·      Operation
• ·      Guess who
• ·      Dicecapades – word pirates
• ·      Battle ship
• ·      Sorry – build your own game
• ·      Pictionary
• Trading cards – characters to collect
• Roll playing games
• Lego
• Building blocks
• Sport

Family education 2012, Fun Games and activities, http://fun.familyeducation.com/activities-center/toddlers-preschoolers-K12children?grade_range=101-106&theme=puzzles-and-games&go.x=41&go.y=12, viewed 24/3/12

Games Paradise 2012, board games, http://www.gamesparadise.com.au/kids-board-games?toystheme=84, viewed 24/3/12