Daily Rebus Puzzles

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Want a fun brain teaser to start the day? Rebus puzzles use letters, words, position, colors, and sometimes even pictures to create a puzzle. Most of the puzzles are clues to common phrases and idioms. There are 100 puzzles provided, enough for a few each week during the school year! These are perfect for students who finish early or need an extra challenge in their day. This is a great way to stretch and challenge little minds and help them develop logic and reasoning skills.

How To Use This:

Print the set of rebus puzzles. If you want to reuse them- laminate each page. Every day post a new rebus puzzle on the board. Have students submit answers secretly. As a class discuss the puzzle and try and figure it out together. Then celebrate when you all get to the answer and can celebrate and laugh together! Make sure to put them back together in the set when you take them down each day!

You could also choose to bind these into a book or put them on a book ring and keep them in a center or for early finishers to use and enjoy.

What You Get:

- 100 Full-page Rebus Puzzles
- Answer Keys

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students decode a rebus puzzle by interpreting the visual/positional arrangement of words, letters and images to reveal a hidden phrase.
Students build recognition of common English idioms and expressions (e.g., "the cat is out of the bag," "a walk in the park") through 100 varied examples.
Students sustain a daily bell-ringer routine, solving one new puzzle per class session across the full 100-puzzle set.

Teaching tips

Print all 100 pages ahead of time and post one puzzle per day as a bell-ringer or morning-work warm-up, per the file's own usage instructions.
Print 2 or 4 puzzles per page if a smaller size is preferred for a rotating bulletin-board display.
Offer a small prize or recognition to the first student who solves each day's puzzle, as the file's instructions suggest.

Skills covered

Rebus/visual decoding — students interpret picture-and-word arrangements (stacked letters, repeated words, size and position clues) to reveal a hidden phrase.
Idiom and figurative-language recognition — the solutions include English idioms, expressions, literal phrases and titles, such as "the cat is out of the bag" and "once in a blue moon."
Daily bell-ringer routine — one puzzle a day builds a sustained warm-up habit across the full 100-puzzle set.

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How many puzzles are included, and how are they organized?

100 individual rebus puzzles, one per page, numbered #1 through #100, with every solution listed by number at the back of the file.

What kind of phrases do the puzzles reveal?

A mix of phrases, titles, idioms and expressions, including "the cat is out of the bag," "once in a blue moon," and "a walk in the park."

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

L.4.5

Core concepts

Rebus puzzles
Idioms and expressions
Visual word decoding

Topics

Rebus puzzles Idioms Visual wordplay Daily warm-up

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