5 Paper & Pencil Games

Paper, pencil and loads of giggles

Looking for a quick boredom buster? Break out a piece of paper & a pencil.

Blind Drawing. Grab a pencil and paper, take a look around you and pick one object. Close your eyes and try to draw it without picking up your pencil!

Hangman. One person thinks of a word and draws dashes along a paper to represent each letter in the word. Above the dashes he draws platform and stand. The other person guesses one letter at a time. If the letter is in the word, the first person fills in the blank(s). If not, the incorrect letter is written below and the first person draws one body part at a time.  If the person guesses the word before the body is completed (head, torso, 2 arms, 2 legs), he wins, if not he loses.

Unscramble. Write a list of 10 words and mix up the letters. Challenge your munchkin(s) to unscramble words.

Words Within A Word. Write a long word on a piece of paper. Set a timer for 2-3 minutes and write down as many words as you can make from the letters in the word.

Paper Telephone. Three or more people each begin with a piece of paper. At the top of the page, they each draw a picture and pass the paper to the next player. With this new piece of paper, each person writes a caption sentence below the picture then folds the top of the paper over so only the sentence can be seen. This piece of paper is then passed to the next player who will draw a picture to go along with the sentence. Each player again folds the paper, now so only the picture can be seen and passes it along. The game continues until there is no more room and every player can open up the paper and read the story.

The Classics. Hangman, Tic Tac Toe, Does & Boxes