Games and Activities to Promote Joyful Communication

Games and activities to reinforce joyful communicationList of ways to build vocabulary/use with activities.

  • Music:
    • The itsy bitsy spider
    • Head shoulders knees and toes
    • If you’re happy and you know it
    • One little finger
    • Hokey pokey
    • Old Macdonald
    • Twinkle twinkle little star
    • I’m a little teapot
    • Five little ducks
    • Five green and speckled frogs
    • Apples and bananas
    • Peanut butter and jelly
    • ABCs, BINGO
  • Games:
    • I spy with my little eye
    • Simon says
    •  Go Fish for “your turn”, “my turn”
    • Blurt is a blurting out word game
    • Headbanz for “what am I”
    • Scavenger Hunt
    • Oys & Joys of each day (child says what the good things and not so great things were each day)
    • Story Cubes (9 cubes with 45 images that you tell a story combining whatever images you rolled)
  • Reading
    • Books
    • Magazines
    • Grocery store ads
    • Instruction manual for a toy