Opposites ⚖️ — English games for kids (online + printable)
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
The opposites topic gives you 20 concrete, drawable, act-out-able words — ideal game material for young learners. Below: the full word list, five ways to play it (each opens a game with this topic already loaded), and the printables for offline lessons.
A word becomes the child's own after roughly seven meetings. One topic, several different games — that's how the meetings happen without a single drill.
The words (20)
- 🐘 big — большой
- 🐜 small — маленький
- 🔥 hot — горячий
- 🧊 cold — холодный
- 🚀 fast — быстрый
- 🐌 slow — медленный
- 😊 happy — весёлый
- 😢 sad — грустный
- ⬆️ up — вверх
- ⬇️ down — вниз
- 🔓 open — открыто
- 🔒 closed — закрыто
- ☀️ day — день
- 🌙 night — ночь
- 💧 wet — мокрый
- 🌵 dry — сухой
Five ways to play them
- Memory Match — picture↔word pairs from the opposites set; every flip is said aloud. Two-player mode for student vs teacher.
- Bingo — you call the words, kids hunt their cards: listening practice with a winner's shout at the end.
- Flip Cards — the deck on screen: picture first, the child names it, flip to check. Great for the first meeting with the words.
- Word Scramble — the shorter opposites words letter by letter: spelling dressed as a puzzle.
- Balloon Words — save the word before the balloons fly away: the alphabet drill children ask to repeat.
Print & go
For offline lessons (or online students with a printer), the same opposites words come as A4 printables: cut-out flashcards with three label options, a one-page poster for the wall, unique bingo sheets with a caller's list, and a matching worksheet with an upside-down answer key.
⭐ Take this with you
One topic, 20 words, five games and four printables: enough material for two or three lessons plus the review that makes it stick. Pick six words to master per lesson — the rest will follow.
🎈 Put it into play
Everything here pairs with our free classroom games — no prep, no accounts.
About the author
Aylara A.
Kids' teacher · founder of AylaraTalks
Aylara is a kids' teacher who spent years hand-making every classroom game — cutting cards and drawing boards on paper sheets. She created AylaraTalks so no teacher has to start from a blank page again.