Rebus Puzzles

Name: Rebus Puzzles
SKU: rebus-puzzles
Price: 19.99 CAD
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English idioms are encoded as picture-and-text rebus puzzles for students to decode from visual wordplay.

Updated Jan 03, 2023

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About this resource

If you're looking for something to challenge your students, these Rebus Puzzles will do the trick.

There are 10 puzzle slides with 6 puzzles each, plus 10 matching answer slides and a cover. There is a blank slide at the end to create your own.

Students will expand their critical thinking as they work to decipher these riddles.

Answer key included.

In the classroom

Decode a common English idiom from a visual rebus puzzle using letter position, size, and arrangement as clues

Present one puzzle slide at a time and reveal its answer slide only after students attempt the idiom
Preview the idiom list before use, since several phrases (sports terms, adult expressions) may need explanation for younger or English-language-learner audiences
Use as a warm-up or transition activity rather than a full lesson, since the file provides no instructional framing

Idiom decoding — students interpret visual arrangements of letters and words to identify a common English idiom.
Figurative language recognition — students connect a decoded phrase to its idiomatic, non-literal meaning.