Shout It Out!

Your kids will delight in this game which you can play anywhere.
Your kids will be building up their vocabulary without even knowing it!

Rules of the Game:
Parent and child call out everything that they see in their immediate vicinity (e.g. the kitchen or the living room), taking turns. The parent tries to add in a few less common items and thereby encourages vocabulary. Remind your child that to play the game you both need to shout out the name of the items in a specific language. If your child has a hard time with sticking to one language, then help with gentle reminders or even repeating the word in the target language.

Example for playing the game:
Parent: “stove!”
Child: “table!”
Parent: “microwave”
Child: “pan”
Etc.

Tips:
Start out slowly and with easy, more obvious items to give your child time to look around and think of the right word for different items. Then you can try to speed up things a bit.

Try it first in one language, then in another!
Play it at home, in the car, on a walk…

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