Instructions
Our dress-up game is a simple paper doll dress-up game.
To add an item of clothing to the character, drag it across. Once it is over, the character will pop into place.
To remove an item of clothing, drag it off the character. It will then return to its starting position.
Notes and Credits
You can play and edit the game on Scratch at the following link:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/503399456/
Teaching
This game was built to help students practice their spoken English.
The original purpose of this game was to provide a fun and useful way for students to practice sentence structures. For instance, they could practice using the single and plural word forms by saying, “I’m wearing a t-shirt” or “I am wearing shorts.”
Student Choice
Students can come to the board and choose how to dress the character. Depending on the time and number of students, I normally let them drag 2 or 3 clothing items. It can be interesting to see what items they choose, and it can be fun for the other students to watch when someone selects a hat and shoes!
The students should dress the character using the items of clothing or sentences they are using for this class.
Roll a Dice
Each item of clothing has a number next to it. This was added for use with dice and for online classes where students can’t point to the item of clothing that they need help remembering the name of. They could say the number, and the teacher could help review the word for them.
Adding the dice to the game adds a nice bit of randomness. It cuts out all the students who pick the same items of clothing because it is easier to repeat what the last student said.
For adding the dice, you can use it with sentences like
- “I’m wearing… (roll the dice, 5 ) shorts.”
- “You are wearing.. (roll the dice, 2) a dress.”
If you want to learn more about how I use dice games to add randomness to class, you can read more here ESL Dice Games: Making Your Classes Fun and Engaging
Find and Match
This is a listing game. One student needs to come to the board and dress the character based on what another student is saying.
Student 1: I am wearing a t-shirt. Student 2: (drags the t-shirt onto the character)
For more advanced classes, you could have one student describe the item of clothing, and the other student needs to guess it and add it to the doll.
- Student 1: It’s Yellow?
- Student 2: Is it a t-shirt? Student 1: No, it isn’t. Student 2: oh, it’s a dress.