192 Easy Charades Ideas for Kids & Printable Words Lists

Directions

1. Decide if you want to break up into teams with a larger group or race against the clock individually.
2. Decide the number of rounds you will play before you start the game.
3. Decide on the time limit that players have to act out the charade ideas.
4. Cut up your charades list and add the slips of paper into a bowl so no one can see what the words will be.
5. Pick the player or actor to start for your team or which individual to start if playing against the clock.
6. The first person or actor picks out of a bowl one of the charade words and starts when the timer is ready.
7. A player will have a time limit of 1 minute to use hand gestures and motions to act out the word on their slip of paper. They may not talk!
8. Players can use some common Charades signs and hand motions to help act out the words.
9. Make sure to have paper and pen to write down the score as you go under each team’s name.
10. If the player’s team guesses correctly in under 1 minute they get a point. If they do not guess correctly the other team gets a chance to make one guess.
11. After the pre-determined number of rounds the team or individual who has the most points wins the game.