Create a game board with computer clip art or DLTK.com's free custom bingo cards.
Write words that rhyme with the pictures or words on your game boards on index cards.
Give each student a game board and a handful of game chips. A couple of possibilities for game chips are pennies or paper clips.
Mix up the index cards and call out the words one at a time. Students mark off the spots on their game boards that rhyme with the words that you call. The first student to get a full row marked calls "Bingo!"
Create a list of silly rhymes involving animals. A few examples are "a whale with a polka dot tail," "a snake baking a cake" and "a fly wearing a tie."
Sit in a circle with your students and sing "Down by the Bay." The lyrics are, "Down by the bay, where the watermelons grow, back to my home, I dare not go, for if I do, my mother will say, 'Did you ever see a . . . .'" The music can be found on the Songs for Teaching website.
Sing the first part of one of the rhymes you have created and let your students call out the rest. For example, sing, "a whale with a polka dot . . ." and let your students yell out, "tail!"
Allow your students to use any word that rhymes, but keep your list as a back-up in case they get stuck.
Fill shoe boxes with rice and hide small items inside the rice. A few examples of items to hide are a block, a pen, a teddy bear and a bead. Each shoe box should have the same items.
Separate your students into groups of three or four. Give each group a shoe box.
Call out a word that rhymes with one of the items in the box. Your students then dig through the shoe boxes and the first group to find the item that rhymes wins that round. For example, if you call out "chair," your students will look for a teddy bear.