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Back to School Icebreaker Idea - Play Pictionary

Published: 7/20/2022

The new school year is approaching, and we would like to offer you an excellent icebreaker idea to kick start the new year in a fun way that your class will love. Kids of different ages enjoy drawing, and our drawing and guessing game is a great platform to organize a Pictionary game in your digital Classroom, be it remote or face to face.

Drawize is already used a lot in schools both for fun and learning. Teachers use our custom words option to define what words will be used in a particular game, customizing it for an array of different purposes. Some use it for fun at the end of class or the end of the day - in that scenario, you are free to use any words you think are fun for your pupils. Others use it for learning, for example, in biology class to help memorize parts of the body, in a language class to practice vocabulary, or in science class to help learn math terms. However, you can use it in any other class by using a list of terms specific to the learned topic for the day.

This time we invite you to use it at the beginning of the school year as a great icebreaker activity that is guaranteed fun for kids. Many of them play it in their free time to have fun with friends and enjoy it, so how cool it be for a teacher to bring it to class? We think this would be great fun for kids and will promote you as a cool teacher that pupils talk about.

You can come up with a word list tailored precisely for your class and use it in a game. However, we will provide one list of Back to School Pictionary words that you can use straight as is or modify however you want.

Back to School Pictionary word list

Backpack
Pencil
Ruler
Eraser
Blackboard
School Bus
Teacher
Classroom
Crayons
Pencil Sharpener
Scissors
Glue Stick
Homework
Desk
Alarm
Book
Microscope
Calculator
Chalk
Paper Clip
Notebook
Computer
Calendar
Paper
Map
Marker
Abacus
Watercolor

To use this list, select all words and copy them, open your room settings, enable the custom words option, and paste words under your room's custom word list.

To read more about using Drawize in the Classroom, please visit our blog post on the online Pictionary for Classroom.

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