EFL Elementary Teachers: Toys Unit Games for the Elementary English Language Learners-Starters

This resource (Toys Vocabulary Games for Elementary ESL Students) is included in the Toys Unit for Elementary school English Language Learners. Find more optional teaching material here:

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Printable Toys unit games are a fun addition to your resource library. They are engaging and motivating for your students. Students are usually interested to actively participate in the different games available.

Toys Vocabulary Board Game

The printable board game encourages students to practice vocabulary while moving around the board.

Board games help students practice speaking and strategic thinking while reinforcing vocabulary.

The board games are just print and assemble the markers. This kind of games involve strategic thinking. Students will have to describe where they land in order to move on the board.

toys vocabulary board game ESL classroom activity

Descriptive Sentence Game

Print a worksheet for each student and a set of cards for each group f. Students will have to create as many sentences as they can and draw a representation on the space provided. Award points to longer sentences. This activity contributes to language fluency as they practice constructing sentences. This is an opportunity for the students to gain confidence in using the new language.

Letter Tiles Vocabulary Activity

The letter tiles are an interactive learning activity. Students can actively form words or crosswords for the toys vocabulary words. Print one or two templates for each group. They will learn to cooperate while putting the letters in words in order.

Toys Vocabulary Quilt Matching Activity

Students match pictures of toys with the correct vocabulary words. Matching activities help reinforce visual recognition and vocabulary retention.

toys vocabulary picture word matching ESL activity. take a look!

Sentence and picture association game

It is fun to use as a grammar reinforcement practice. It is a cognitive skill builder when children match descriptions with visual representation.

There are grammar sentences available, but students can write their own. A

Picture Association Game

Many ways to play this toys unit word association game. It can be simple matching the word to the picture, memory and any other to practice turn-taking.

What about having the players construct sentences using the word or picture that are in a pile as they come up.

Pocket Chart Sentence Activity

Have students the practice sentence construction and reading as the match the sentence to the picture.

Teaching numbers becomes more engaging when students work with colorful characters such as robots. In this Robots Numbers 1–20 ESL activity, students practice counting, number recognition, and vocabulary while interacting with robot illustrations. Go to this blog post: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2025/05/toys-unit-robots-numbers-1-to-20.html