Brain games and puzzles
Maze Maker
Design your own maze on squared paper with one true path and lots of dead ends, then swap with a friend.
Thinking sheet · Brain games and puzzles
Animal Anagrams
Unscramble the letters to find six animals hiding in the jumble, then draw each one.
- Grades
- 1–4
- Time
- about 15 minutes
- Kids practice
- spelling, letter patterns, persistence
What kids do
“The letters got mixed up! Can you find the animals?”
- Unscramble and draw
- Scramble an animal for a friend:
How to run it
- Write the letters on scrap paper and move them around.
- Look for the first letter: which ones could start a word?
- Give hints like “it has a trunk”.
Talk about it
- Which one was hardest?
- What trick helped you?
- Can your name be scrambled into a new word?
Take it further
Scramble five foods for a partner.
Pairs well with
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