Adventurers: Summer Charades (Fun in the Sun)

Today, we played a games of charades. The category was "All the things you can find in the summer." Here are some of the things we acted out and guessed: octopus, sunscreen, sunglasses, swimming, hula dancing, surfing.

Charades is a great game to practice social and non-verbal skills (e.g., identifying expressions and body language) as well as to promote teamwork, to improve communication and to help with impulse control since the player(s) cannot say or blurt out what they are acting out. Its for all ages and it can be played in larger and smaller groups. Last but not least, charades promotes applying inference skills through visual clues.

Here is how we played it at Clubhouse:
A team of players drew a card out of a bag. They then acted out together what was depicted on the card, while the rest of the group guessed what it is. 

Here are some ideas how to break down the game and how to teach the game to younger students:

• Take turns drawing cards out of a grab bag, depicting summer activities or objects, and practice acting out what is depicted as a group first.
• Use a 'cheat sheet' with duplicate cards to help with the guessing.