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Magic Bag
Teacher pulls mystery items from a bag one by one — children guess and repeat.
⏱ 10-15 min⚡ Low energy👥 Whole class
📚 Vocabulary
• any lesson vocabulary
• classroom objects
• animals
• food
• colours
🛠 Materials
• A cloth bag or pillowcase
• 5-8 small objects or flashcards
📋 How to Play
- Fill a bag with small objects or flashcards related to the lesson vocabulary.
- Tell children it is a magic bag — nobody knows what is inside!
- Slowly reach in and pull out one item dramatically.
- Hold it up and ask "What is it?"
- Children shout the answer — confirm and repeat together.
- Place the item to one side and continue with the next.
- After all items are revealed, put them back and let a child pull one out.
- Child must say the word before showing it to the class.
💡 Teacher Tips
✓Be dramatic when pulling items out — build suspense to keep children engaged.
✓Use real objects where possible — they are more exciting than flashcards for this age.
✓This works brilliantly as a warm up to introduce new vocabulary.
✓Let every child have a turn reaching into the bag.
🔄 Variations
→Feel and guess — children put their hand in without looking and guess by touch.
→Wrong answer bag — teacher pretends to say wrong names and children correct them.
→Categories — only put in items from one category and children must name the category.
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