For many of us, the flip side of social distancing is more time at home to play with our families…
When students are engaged with a game, they learn without focusing specifically on the language. Mirar y recordar, or Look…
If you like games and are learning Spanish, then it only makes sense to play Spanish board games. Of course…
My favorite games to play with students include language, but draw on other skills too. So kids are having fun…
Body parts are some of the first words children learn in Spanish and there are lots of fun games to…
I like playing board games as language activities because they allow for lots of input and are easy to adapt…
Spanish reading games are an easy way to have fun with language. For example, these two I Spy games let…
Kids love games, and playing with language is an excellent way to learn. Below you will find Spanish vocabulary games…
I am fascinated by the traditional games children play in Mexico, Peru and Nicaragua. My children learned many traditional Mexican…
I recently made these two roll-and-answer dice games to practice words related to winter clothes and weather. You can find…
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 verb practice game for kids with small groups when I want to give them focused practice…
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 cards with simple Spanish associations to practice vocabulary and common verbs. Kids match two related cards…
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…