Rhyming Word Games

Word search games and anagrams can be made with any kinds of words. There are websites where you can create a word search game or an anagram using your own words.

Word search games can be made at Word Search Fun.com and Puzzle Maker at Discovery Education.com. You can use either site to make rhyming word games. At the Puzzlemaker site, you have several options; the size of the puzzle, the format, and the level of difficulty. There are also other kinds of word games on this site that you may find useful.

Make Your Own Anagrams with Rhyming Words

Word Plays.com is a site where you can make your own anagram with rhyming words. All you do is type in a word or phrase and it will give you many choices of anagrams.

Angel Fire is another site where you can make an anagram. For example, type in “boys and girls” and you get “darling bossy” and “sags boil dry.”

If you are a teacher, Worksheet Genius is the site for you as you can create your own custom worksheets easily. You put in the words and it makes a worksheet which has lines at the top for the name and date. The easy level will include the answers at the bottom of the page and the hard level will not.

You can put up to 35 words and the directions on the worksheet are, “These words have been mixed up. Can you unscramble them?” If you have trouble thinking of words, there are some word lists to help you out. They include picture nouns that start with “a”, “b”, and so on; words that end with certain letters; and words that contain certain groups of letters, like “ai” or “th”.

Classroom Rhyming Games

A good rhyming game for the classroom is Disappearing Rhyme Man or the Invisible Rhyme Man. You draw two stick men on the board with between 12 and 16 parts. This may include head, body, legs, arms, hair, eyes, nose, mouth, etc. Divide the class into two teams. The first player has to come up with a rhyming word or two, depending on the level of the class. You may want to have a two line poem and have him fill in the last word with a rhyming word. If he gets it right, he erases one part of the opposing team’s man. Continue playing until one man has disappeared. If he can not think of a rhyming word, either give the other team a chance or pick a new word to rhyme.

The next of the rhyming word games is called Rhyme That Word. One student is the poet and walks around the room looking for help with rhyming. He stops behind a desk and asks the students for help rhyming a word. If the student answers correctly, then the poet has to sit down and the student is the new poet. This can be adapted to any grade level. For example, if the students can read, the poet can have a card with the word written on it. The new poet can get another word from a stack. If the students are not reading yet, then the teacher can provide the word. Continue until every student has a chance to think of a rhyming word.

Rhyme Hunt is like a scavenger hunt. Write words that have a few words that rhyme with them on cards and place them around the room. Have the class team up in pairs and give them a list of words. Each team finds a word and the first player will say at least one word that rhymes with the word. The other team member will put a check mark by his name, and then they reverse roles. Of course, the second player has to say a different rhyming word. By the end of the hunt, each word on the list will have two check marks.

Rhyming Word Games