Suggest some homonym activities/games?

[chalupamom]

My son finds homonyms very fun and is exploring them as word games and even puns. I'm usually pretty good at adapting his interests to some kind of game or activity but with this I'm coming up blank.

Care to help? I'm totally flummoxed how to entertain him on this one. He's six, by the way, and a fairly good early reader.

(Also will cross-post to The Denim Jumper, so if you participate there you'll have the joy of seeing this twice!)

Thanks!

[trinta]

I'm not sure if this qualifies as "fun", but you could play a take-turns game with it. Make a sentence using homonyms--you go, then he goes--the first person to run out loses.

"The dear deer ran into the forest."
"I know no better game."
"Gene's jeans are dirty." (Is it technically a homonym if one is a proper noun?)

Anyway, good luck!

[wonderactivist]

I loved sharing homonyms with my son. We actually worked quite a lot from the library on this - as our old library had loads of fun books on them...but we also played a few simple, made-up games. Here's a similar approach in Imaginative Education (a website I really like a lot) - The Oddity of Homonyms. They have one for homophones too. They're structured, but I just grab an idea or two and adapt.

Lucie

[chalupamom]

Great ideas! Many thanks to you both.

[orca]

Have you read The King Who Rained?

http://www.amazon.com/King-Who-Raine.../dp/0671667440

Your 6 year old will love it. The Coat of arms kind of freaks me out, but it is a fun book!