[chammi]

Another thing that words really well for me is playing BINGO. We play "Audio Bingo" Where I fire up Audacity (but really all you need is a cheap mic and Sound Recorder or something like that).

I make little cards with the vocabulary on them (grab pictures off the net, use the "Windows Photo Printing Wizard" to make 2 sets of "wallet prints" and you're done).

Then I record a start track. Something like "Are you ready to play audio bingo? . . . Let's start!"

Then record sounds files of you saying the words twice.

Ex: "Dog . . . dog."


Import these into iTunes or any other audioplayer that shuffles and plays the shuffled songs once.

Make a playlist of the tracks.

Then it's showtime! You and your kid each arrange your cards into a 3x3, 5x5, etc grid.

Once that's ready, you open the playlist and turn on shuffle and double-click on the START sound file. Then run back to your place and start flipping over cards as they are called.

The game is fair because it's really a game of chance at this point.

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Another variation can be done with squares of construction paper and audio recordings of "Are you ready to play audio Twister? Let's start!" ; "right foot blue"; "left hand green" etc.

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the beauty of audio bingo is that once you have recorded your sound files, you can mix and match them to review.