To play this game, the only thing you need is a rubber chicken and a list of categories. Have the class sit in a circle. Choose a student to be "it" and give her the rubber chicken. Give the student a category, such as "capital cities" and tell your students to pass the chicken to the right around the circle. While the chicken is making its way around the circle, the student attempts to name five examples from the category. If the student is unsuccessful and the chicken is returned to her, she must repeat with a new category. If she's successful, the current holder of the chicken after the fifth example becomes "it" and must give new examples or use a new category.
Collect a group of objects that all have a unique sound and place them in a large cardboard box so the students are unable to see (for example: rocks, cups, pencils, strings, sandpaper or egg-beater). Use the object to make a noise and the students must guess what object it is. The student who gets the correct answer must then come up with three or four adjectives to describe the sound.
Give a small group of students three dice. Have them roll the dice and set aside the die with the highest number. Then tell them to roll the remaining two dice, again setting aside the highest number. Roll the last die again and using a piece of paper, tell them to add the three numbers. You can make this game more difficult by choosing specialty dice with 8, 10, 12, or 20 sides. For older children you can tell them to multiply instead of add.
Another dice game to play with small groups. Give one student in the group three 10-sided dice. Tell them to roll and place the dice in order from highest to lowest. For example, 6, 2, 1. Tell them to write down the number, say "beat that," and pass the dice to the next student in the group. The next student rolls and writes down the number. If the number is lower, the student passes it on and the highest number remains. If the student rolls higher, he says "beat that" and has the new number to beat.