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Sleeping Lions
Children lie still like sleeping lions — last one to move wins.
⏱ 5-10 min⚡ Low energy👥 Whole class
📚 Vocabulary
• body parts
• still
• quiet
• sleeping
• wake up
• lion
🛠 Materials
• Clean floor space
• Optional: mats or yoga mats
📋 How to Play
- Tell children they are going to be sleeping lions.
- Children lie down on the floor as still and quiet as possible.
- Teacher (or a chosen child) walks around trying to wake the lions.
- They can talk to them, make silly faces, or say funny things — but NO touching.
- Ask vocabulary questions — "What colour is a banana?"
- If a lion answers, smiles, giggles, or moves — they are awake and must sit up.
- Last child still "sleeping" wins.
- This game is perfect as a calming activity after a high energy game.
💡 Teacher Tips
✓Use this game to calm the class down after a high energy activity.
✓Ask vocabulary questions to lions — they must stay still even if they know the answer.
✓Set a 2-minute time limit so the game does not go on too long.
✓Children love being the one who tries to wake the others — great for speaking practice.
🔄 Variations
→Lions must wake up when they hear their assigned vocabulary word.
→Play as sleeping animals — children choose which animal they are.
→The waker must only use English to try to wake the lions.
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