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Summer holidays 🌞 β€” English games for kids

Aylara A.

Kids' teacher Β· founder of AylaraTalks

August 4, 2026 Β· 5 min read

The summer holidays topic gives you 16 concrete, drawable, act-out-able words β€” 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 β€” that's how the meetings happen without a single drill.

The words (16)

  • β˜€οΈ sun β€” солнцС
  • πŸ–οΈ beach β€” пляТ
  • 🍦 ice cream β€” ΠΌΠΎΡ€ΠΎΠΆΠ΅Π½ΠΎΠ΅
  • πŸ‰ watermelon β€” Π°Ρ€Π±ΡƒΠ·
  • πŸ§ƒ juice β€” сок
  • 🏊 swimming pool β€” бассСйн
  • 🏰 sandcastle β€” Π·Π°ΠΌΠΎΠΊ ΠΈΠ· пСска
  • 🐚 shell β€” Ρ€Π°ΠΊΡƒΡˆΠΊΠ°
  • β›΅ boat β€” Π»ΠΎΠ΄ΠΊΠ°
  • 🐟 fish β€” Ρ€Ρ‹Π±Π°
  • πŸ‘’ sun hat β€” ΠΏΠ°Π½Π°ΠΌΠΊΠ°
  • πŸ“· camera β€” Ρ„ΠΎΡ‚ΠΎΠ°ΠΏΠΏΠ°Ρ€Π°Ρ‚
  • 🧳 suitcase β€” Ρ‡Π΅ΠΌΠΎΠ΄Π°Π½
  • ✈️ plane β€” самолёт
  • β›Ί tent β€” ΠΏΠ°Π»Π°Ρ‚ΠΊΠ°
  • πŸ•ΆοΈ sunglasses β€” ΠΎΡ‡ΠΊΠΈ ΠΎΡ‚ солнца
πŸ—‚οΈ Summer holidays: word wall with audio

Five ways to play them

  • Memory Match β€” picture↔word pairs from the summer holidays set; every flip is said aloud. Two-player mode for student vs teacher.
  • Bingo β€” you call the words, kids hunt their cards: listening practice with a winner's shout at the end.
  • Flip Cards β€” the deck on screen: picture first, the child names it, flip to check. Great for the first meeting with the words.
  • Word Scramble β€” the shorter summer holidays words letter by letter: spelling dressed as a puzzle.
  • Balloon Words β€” save the word before the balloons fly away: the alphabet drill children ask to repeat.
πŸƒ Memory🎫 Bingo🎴 Flip CardsπŸ”€ Scramble🎈 Balloon Words

Print & go

For offline lessons (or online students with a printer), the same summer holidays 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.

πŸƒ FlashcardsπŸ–ΌοΈ Poster🎫 Bingo sheets✏️ Matching worksheet

🎈 Put it into play

Everything here pairs with our free classroom games β€” no prep, no accounts.

Open the games

About the author

Aylara A.

Kids' teacher Β· founder of AylaraTalks

Aylara is a kids' teacher who spent years hand-making every classroom game β€” cutting cards and drawing boards on paper sheets. She created AylaraTalks so no teacher has to start from a blank page again.

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