101 Games For Social Skills (exploring Positive Relationships And Healthy Interactions)

101 Games for Social Skills is packed with creative and dynamic games that will help children to develop positive relationships and to learn the skills of healthy interactions, based on the authors’ extensive hands-on experience. Perfect for the busy practitioners to pick up and follow, the games also offer great fun for children.

101 Games for Social Skills is packed with creative and dynamic games that will help children to develop positive relationships and learn the skills of healthy interactions, based on the authors’ extensive hands-on experience.

Part of the popular 101 series, this revised edition is crammed full of quick, easy to play and easy to follow games to nurture skills of listening, speaking, observing and concentrating. Including all resources available to download, the games are ideal to add into a schedule throughout the week.

Simple for busy practitioners to pick up and follow, the book is a perfect addition to the toolkit of any early years or primary school teacher. Children will also have great fun playing the games featured in its pages.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

1 Looking

The troublesome tray

A change of clothes

Thinking faces

Signal success

Ready for action

Catch the fox’s tail

What am I doing?

Traffic chant

Pass it along

Back writing

Further activities

2 Listening

Who’s talking now?

Chain reaction

Let me tell you a story

Who has the ball?

Who was the trickster?

Double trouble

Tongue twisters

Vary the volume

Racing whispers

Clap this way

Further activities

3 Speaking

The tone of my voice

Favourite things

Who can think of something …?

Special delivery

Who can …?

Greetings

Round we go

Aliens talking

Paired poem

Spin the bottle

Further activities

4 Thinking

Be the seeker

Odd bods

Guess who I am

Formula 1 quiz

Rhyme and reason

What am I thinking? (1)

What am I thinking? (2)

A moment’s thought

Hesitation!

Opposites attract

Further activities

5 Concentrating

Look at you

Letterbox

Bouncy ball

Surfing

Don’t you dare laugh!

The octopus’ treasure

Fast forward

Racing tableaux

The rainbow game

Clockwise, anti-clockwise

Further activities

6 Thinking of Others

The bad bear rap

Kindness calling

Afloat in a boat

Dining out

Crosspatch, put up the latch

Reactions

The third way

Catch the action

A positive influence

Spies and spycatchers

Further activities

7 Working Together

A pair of hands

The elevator

Get into the right suits

Picture perfect

Who am I talking about?

How long will it take?

Balloon blowing

Eel-ongated

Star-catcher

Interior designer

Further activities

8 Enhancing Communication Skills

Missing letters

The shop game

Talking choices

Short scenes

The right location

Catch the fox

What can animals do?

Noah’s ark

Talk back

Trios

Further activities

9 Skills for Out and About

Holidays

Get packing

The train game

Holiday snaps

Getting dr