Category: Fun and Games

What’s Up with Up?

There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is “UP.” It is listed in the dictionary as being used as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v]. It’s...


Beach Anagrams

An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging the letters in another word or phrase. Unscramble the letters to form a word or phrase. THEME: The Beach Rattle Saw  He Is Nuns Run Figs  Hang In Tubs Do...


Famous Books Anagrams

An anagram is a word or phrase made by rearranging the letters in another word or phrase. Unscramble the letters to form a word or phrase. THEME: Famous Books Try Trap Hero Dog Kick Ball Into Rim A Wittiest Fool...


Fun With Words II

I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger…..and then it hit me. Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. Did you hear about the guy whose entire left side was cut off? Well!!!...


Fun With Words

There is no ham in a hamburger There is no straw in a strawberry. There is neither egg in eggplant or apple in a pineapple. A Guinea pig is not a pig A panda bear is related to a raccoon...



Vocabulart Flashcards Lesson

VocabulART Directions Flashcards are to be done on 3×5 index cards. On one side of the card write the word and an illustration of the meaning. On the other side, write the definition. This involves creativity, but it is a...


Write Your Own Spoonerisms

The term Spoonerism comes from the Rev. William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930), a clergyman known for his lips of the slip …I mean slips of the lip, in which he would transpose or reverse the sounds of two or more words...


Tom Swiftys Part 2

A Tom Swifty is a type of pun that plays on the relationship between the adverb at the end of the sentence and the contents of the sentence. “You will have to figure that out on your own,” Tom said...