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Practice everyday independence through games about routines, food safety, money, online choices and social skills. Choose a real-life task and the support level students need.

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Personal Hygiene Bingo Grooming Life Skills Health Special Education teaching resource preview
Personal care & routines

Personal Hygiene Bingo Grooming Life Skills Health Special Education

No Prep Personal Hygiene Bingo Game is a fun and engaging way to teach healthy habits, grooming routines, and important life skills. Since bingo is a familiar game, it's easy to set up and helps students learn essential self-care practices in an interactive and supportive way. I like using this activity during health…

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Cooking Up Some Vocabulary Game - EBOOK teaching resource preview
Cooking & food safety

Cooking Up Some Vocabulary Game - EBOOK

Players roll a die, draw a vocabulary card, read the cooking term aloud (e.g. baste, broil, cream, knead, marinate, mince, sift, simmer, whip) and state its definition; a designated judge/adult confirms correctness before the player advances on the board.

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Pre-K–1
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Exploring Life After High School - On My Own Activity Booklet teaching resource preview
Money & independence

Exploring Life After High School - On My Own Activity Booklet

Role-play apartment seeker/owner conversations using provided apartment listing cards; play a 'Price is Right' style grocery-cost guessing game and use a calculator to score it; track personal/family monthly expenses in a notebook; play a dice relay game to practice saving for goals; make a labeled 'money saving…

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11–12
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Game: Internet Safety teaching resource preview
Safety & online choices

Game: Internet Safety

A printable board game teaching internet/online safety skills for elementary students, covering safe password/username choices, what personal information not to share online, and recognizing unsafe or scam content (phishing emails, fake virus warnings, popups).

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1–4
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My Great Day Activity - Empower Kids with Organization & Gratitude teaching resource preview
Personal care & routines

My Great Day Activity - Empower Kids with Organization & Gratitude

Students play group games and complete activities: a relay race sorting/acting-out morning routine task cards, decorating a personal morning routine chart, playing 'Clutter Bingo' with call cards depicting messy items, solving riddles to identify homework-readiness items (book, pencil, backpack, folders, etc.) in the…

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2–3
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What Is Consent Full Lesson teaching resource preview
Safety & online choicesSocial & emotional skills

What Is Consent Full Lesson

Students discuss what consent is and its main elements with a partner, play a 'Make a Pizza' game where they request and respond to topping choices using only nonverbal cues, reflect on the experience, act out role-play scenarios responding to requests both nonverbally and verbally, and participate in a wrap-up…

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5–12
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Functional Life Skills - Getting Ready for School teaching resource preview
Personal care & routines

Functional Life Skills - Getting Ready for School

Play a bingo matching game with morning-routine pictures/words; answer scenario questions (circle-the-answer format) about breakfast, teeth-brushing, and school timing; sequence steps for brushing teeth, getting dressed, and making breakfast; sort healthy vs. unhealthy breakfast choices; complete cut-and-stick and…

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Functional Life Skills - Housekeeping teaching resource preview
Personal care & routines

Functional Life Skills - Housekeeping

Play a bingo matching game with household-chore pictures/words (e.g., broom, mop, vacuum, dishwasher); match chore tools to their function (e.g., 'You use this to sweep the floor'); sequence steps for doing laundry and washing dishes; sort laundry by color; sort recycling vs. trash.

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Roll & Respond-Self-Care Bingo Game teaching resource preview
Social & emotional skills

Roll & Respond-Self-Care Bingo Game

In pairs, roll two dice (one for a row, one for a column, like Battleship coordinates), read and answer the self-care discussion prompt at the intersection, mark the square with an X, and try to get Bingo or Blackout; rolling a 6 lets the player choose any square.

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4–8
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No prep personal health wellness bingo game SEL healthy habits hygiene teaching resource preview
Personal care & routines

No prep personal health wellness bingo game SEL healthy habits hygiene

No Prep Personal Health & Wellness Bingo Game is a fun and engaging way to teach students about healthy habits, personal hygiene, and social-emotional well-being. Since bingo is a familiar game, it’s easy to set up and encourages active participation while reinforcing essential life skills. I like using this activity…

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Pre-K
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Let's Talk About Personal Care Board Game teaching resource preview
Personal care & routines

Let's Talk About Personal Care Board Game

Roll dice and move a game piece around the board; when landing on a space, read the printed question aloud and answer it verbally (or in writing) with a partner or small group, about personal care and hygiene.

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Pre-K, 1–2
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Personal Finance and Budgeting Project teaching resource preview
Money & independence

Personal Finance and Budgeting Project

Watch instructional videos and complete accompanying video worksheets, participate in a hands-on "Penny Wise" budgeting simulation activity (adapted from a Bean Salary game), and compile the pieces into a personal budget project; a paperless Google Slides copy of the project is also provided via a linked Google Drive…

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6–12
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Mental Health Bingo – Self-Care Game for Class teaching resource preview
Social & emotional skills

Mental Health Bingo – Self-Care Game for Class

Self-care and self-esteem vocabulary — deep breath, meditation, yoga, drink water, feel strong, let it go, say thanks, and more — is built into a standard bingo format in this printable game. A two-page how-to-use guide walks the teacher through the full setup: printing and laminating the calling cards and bingo cards, distributing one unique card per student along with a set of bingo chips, explaining horizontal, vertical, and diagonal winning patterns, and calling out items one at a time from a shuffled deck of calling cards. Forty individually laid-out bingo cards are included, one per page, so a full class can play at once without duplicate boards, along with a separate bingo-chip marker sheet. The game is framed as a tool for introducing and reviewing self-care vocabulary and themes rather than an academic content check.

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Pre-K–3
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Vocabulary with Flash Cards | Crossword Wordsearch Anagram HYGIENE teaching resource preview
Personal care & routines

Vocabulary with Flash Cards | Crossword Wordsearch Anagram HYGIENE

Unscramble anagram letters into theme words; match words in list/pairs format; choose the correct picture option (A/B/C/D) for a given word in the multiple-choice pages; solve a numbered crossword using the theme word clues; find theme words in word search grids; use the individual word cards as flash cards.

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Science Tools & Lab Safety Bingo Game Printables teaching resource preview
Safety & online choices

Science Tools & Lab Safety Bingo Game Printables

Fifty 5x5 bingo cards, each with a give-away center square, cover thirty science lab vocabulary terms — tools such as beaker, microscope, cylinder, and tongs alongside protective equipment such as goggles, gloves, a safety mask, and an apron. A matching set of calling cards lists every term with its name, ready to be drawn and read aloud, and a bingo-chip sheet is included for marking called squares. A two-page how-to-use guide walks through printing and optionally laminating the materials, explaining horizontal, vertical, and diagonal winning patterns, and running the game from shuffling the calling cards to verifying a winner's card. The set is built for whole-class play, with fifty boards available for distributing to students.

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Pre-K
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Cooking + Baking Speaking Games teaching resource preview
Cooking & food safety

Cooking + Baking Speaking Games

Move a token from space to space on a printed game board, reading aloud and answering conversational prompts about cooking/baking (e.g. 'What is your favourite cake?', 'Would you like to be a chef or a baker one day?').

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Pre-K, 1–3
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