Many tener expressions are common, everyday vocabulary, and my students learn the high-frequency vocabulary early. We use these phrases all…
The Veo veo song and game are great language activities for learning Spanish. Veo veo is the game I Spy…
Spanish vocabulary picture cards help kids understand and learn new words. The pictures represent words so you do not have…
When I am working in Latin America, I keep my eyes open for authentic games I can use in my…
These Spanish PowerPoint games are a fun get-to-know-you or back-to-school activity. They use photos and include lots of comprehensible input…
Spanish Bananagrams is my family’s favorite word game. We’ve played since my children were little, and it is always a…
Traditional Spanish hand clapping games combine language, movement, rhythm and culture. There are many juegos de manos (juegos de palmas…
I based this active Spanish color game on an activity kids do in P.E class. It works well for the…
Recently, when I wanted a quick Spanish information gap activity, I created a game called Name that Card. Information gap…
Last year, I made a printable Spanish card game based on Go Fish, but I added extra language. It’s called…
This game with Spanish actions keeps kids laughing, moving and thinking. It is easy to make and play and can…
This Spanish guessing game teaches letter sounds, vocabulary and pronunciation. The idea for the game came out of moment of…
With my own kids growing up, I always wanted them to speak as much Spanish as possible. I looked for…
Have your kids met Noah? He is the protagonist of the PBS KIDS digital series Oh Noah!, designed to introduce…
Plastic eggs are an easy, hands-on way to play Spanish matching games. You can make the activities more effective by…
You can use these simple Spanish questions for all kinds of games and activities. They work for quiz games or…
I’m always looking for hands-on Spanish games. The more kids physically interact with words by moving them and ordering them…
Recently a reader asked about adapting Spanish learning games, specifically a dice game, for middle school. The game she asked…
Bananagrams in Spanish is great for native speakers, but there are also fun variations that you can play with language…
It is Friday and time for the Friday Five! These activities are for kids learning Spanish, and they take little…
My kids grew up playing all kinds of Spanish word games. One of my favorites was definitely Bananagrams. It was…
Finding quality Spanish language applications for the iPad and iPhone can be a challenge. This is partly because the iTunes…
Video clips with the sound turned off are a wonderful resource for speaking activities. They provide images to talk about…
Websites can be a useful way to give kids more exposure to Spanish and help them stay in contact with…
Kids first learn Spanish subject pronouns from context as you use them, especially to contrast what different people are doing…
I am in Nicaragua this week, so things are a little quiet on Spanish Playground. I am here as part…
My classes start the first week of February, so I am in Manzanillo, Mexico for a couple of weeks. It…
Children all over the world sing about elephants swinging on a spider’s web, and keep singing and singing as they…
Did your child get a jigsaw puzzle for Christmas? Does your family do puzzles together? A jigsaw puzzle, or rompecabezas…
Playing with patterns or sequences, kids can speak lots of Spanish. I like pattern activities because you can associate vocabulary…
Tic tac toe has many names in Spanish. Three of the most common are tres en raya (Spain), gato (Mexico)…
Talking about the continents with children learning Spanish lets you introduce or review geography vocabulary. In addition to the word…
I think this Spanish vocabulary game is one of my better ideas for working with groups of kids. I call…
Leanna is a stay-at-home mother to a sweet, funny, rambunctious three year old boy and his adorable, smiley baby brother…
Traditional games in Spanish teach language and culture. These 12 games are from Latin America and Spain, and all of…
Teaching children numbers in Spanish is fairly easy, so you might wonder why you would ever put a young child…
Questions in Spanish are useful for all kinds of activities and games. Children also have fun asking each other, or…
Nos vamos a México by Laura Krebs is one of my favorite Spanish stories for kids. This beautiful book is…
For years, OnlineFreeSpanish has offered an excellent set of free activities for children learning Spanish. Now they have a new…
I use this Spanish game for kids with small groups when I want to give them focused practice conjugating verbs…
There are lots of hands-on activities that you can do with kids to teach the shapes in Spanish and use…
The names of shapes, or las formas in Spanish, are basic vocabulary that children learn in preschool and kindergarten. Kids…
Oso pardo, oso pardo, ¿qué ves ahí? is the translation of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?. This…
Kids can practice listening to Spanish with this short description of a common food. They try to guess the word…
I use these printable Spanish cards with kids to practice vocabulary and common verbs. They match the two cards that…
If your family speaks English or another language at home, it can be a challenge to set aside time for…
Kids love playing with bean bags. Like balloons and water, bean bags almost guarantee happy children and a successful activity…
These printable Spanish activity books have a selection of educational games for kids of different ages. Dodot is a Spanish…
A beach ball, pelota de playa or balón de playa in Spanish, is a classic summer toy. It is inexpensive…
This printable Spanish game for kids uses words we associate with the 4th of July. It is a fun way…
These printable Spanish questions and pictures are an excellent activity for language learners. They are part of Una preguntita, a…
Chile Crece Contigo was established by the Chilean government to support and protect children and families. As one small part…
Kids have fun solving analogies because they are mental puzzles. In this printable Spanish activity, they figure out the relationship…
This Spanish online game, Un día en el circo, is from a set of activities called Diverland. The activities are…
Una preguntita is a continually growing collection of questions in Spanish that encourage kids to draw on information they know…
This Spanish card game is an fun way for kids to learn vocabulary and practice comparisons. It is based on…
Educapeques is an educational portal with lots of resources for teachers and parents. On the website, Editorial Educapeques of Spain…
I am going to be in Peru for the next few weeks and will not be posting as often on…
This online game is a good way to practice Spanish color words. It is from Spanishspanish and players hear and…
I write about lots of traditional playground games, hand-clapping games and jump rope rhymes that children play in Spanish. Recently…