When I shared the CRAZY DAISY word game back in October, many students and teachers wanted more! The same thing has happened with other resources I’ve shared: Gus and Gabby, Triple-A Analogies, and Split-Pairs puzzles.
What to do?
My response has always been: “Have the kids create their own.” So, now I’m providing a little help with that!
Here is another set of Crazy Daisy word puzzles, but there’s a twist.
By slightly changing the presentation, one puzzle can be a warm-up activity, a team competition, or an interactive bulletin board. LESS IS MORE!
HOW IT WORKS:
Display JUST ONE LINE of the word game – the first line. Then, challenge students to write three additional lines to complete the Crazy Daisy puzzle. You may be surprised how many different ways one line can be turned into a puzzle!
You can use this slide deck to introduce the idea. Share only the first slide. Allow students time to come up with original puzzles. Then you may choose to advance the slides so students can see example sets. If you choose to just play the game, at least your students will see the MANY connections that can be made to a word pair. Granted, some are a little “out there,” but hints are allowed, and this gives kids permission to be creative in their connections.
Display the one-liners when you need a quick warm-up or filler activity.
To create a quick and easy interactive bulletin board, post one line of a puzzle and keep it up all week. Have students write their own sets on larger sticky notes (like these). This becomes a giant guessing game as students try to figure out the sets others have posted. Many students will be inspired by the idea of writing as many as they can using the same first line!
Don’t forget to return to these original puzzles and have students create additional sets for those as well!
CRAZY DAISY as a GAME!
Here’s one more way to use Crazy Daisy slides:
- Divide your class into teams of 2-4 students.
- Display all four sentences (entire slide). Each team comes up with as many possible solutions (what Crazy Daisy likes) as they can in a given amount of time.
- Have teams share their ideas for the class to test.
- Teams get 10 points for each solution that is approved, even if another team has the same one.
I’ve created this CRAZY DAISY Winter Holiday Game set that could be fun to use in the final weeks of December!
You may also be interested in the variety of PUZZLES listed and linked here, many with puzzle tutorials.
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