Interactive Game
Painter's Attic
A secret word arrives on a painter's palette and you draw it on a real easel canvas — brush sounds, paint-blob colours and a skylight for a timer.
- Ages 5–11
Teacher guide · Fortune Wheel
Name picker wheel: how to use it in class
Picks one student at random, out loud and in front of everyone — so nobody argues with it.
Open the gameAt a glance
- Ages
- Any age
- Players
- Whole class
- Time
- 1 min
- Prep
- Type the class list once; it is remembered
- Online lessons
- Made for screen share
- No wifi
- Keeps working once it has been opened
How to play
Type the class list once. It is remembered on this device.
Every name gets a painted slice of the wheel.
Spin it and listen to the ratchet slow down.
A ticket prints with the lucky name on it.
Variations
Three ways to play it differently once the class knows the rules.
Question chain
Ask a question and spin: the named student answers, then asks the next question before you spin again.
Helper of the day
Spin at the start of the lesson to choose who hands out the books, waters the plants or leads the line.
Three things
Whoever the wheel picks names three words from today's topic — then the wheel decides who goes next.
Best topics for this game
Word lists that suit it, with pictures and translations.
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