How to play The Gross Sentence Game:
- Make a whole bunch of 3 x 5 cards with various words on them. You need nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc… They all must be present. Make sure to include some "unusual" and extra "gross" words. Scabs and toe nails and pustules and the like.
- Then have the children go through your big pile of random words and construct, hopefully hilarious, sentences. Sentences like, “I ate rhinoceros toe nails and scabs. Yum!”
This of course can get very gross but if your children are like mine they will end up crying in laughter on the floor and begging to build more sentences. For my boys, they really get going with this game when we use words that normally would cause me to cringe. Like it or not, these nasty words combined with words like Rhinoceros, ate and the make for some pretty interesting sentences.
Tweak the game for your own child. Perhaps you have a girl who is obsessed with princesses… make it all about fairyland and Disneyland and Lala Land and any other land of make believe that you can conjure up.
Nan is the sassy wife of a hot reformed pastor. She’s an American expat living in Canada. Her four sons make life like a veritable lunchbox. She blogs regularly at Life is Like a Lunchbox
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Great idea! I used to play a milder version of this game w/ my 6th graders when I was teaching. But I will use this version w/ my son when he's a little bit older! Thanks for the idea!!
Lovely idea! We sometimes try to make sentences where the words all start with the same letter – Monsterous Mark Munches Many More Mice! I think we got to 8 once!
This is such a great idea! Kids are reading and writing without knowing it!
After reading the article, I feel that I need more information on the topic. Can you share some resources please?