Happy Families: ask for the cards of a category with the class's words
Fruit, farm animals, clothes: Lexikit sorts your words by category and makes a family of each, with its own colour. Every card shows the picture, the word and the list of its family, the card's own word marked. The child reads whom to ask for: “In the fruit family, may I have the apple?” A game to use the vocabulary again while sorting it into categories.
Free, no account needed. Opens in your browser.
In 3 steps
- Add your words: at least four per category, or start from a theme.
- Choose four or six cards per family: Lexikit keeps the categories with enough words and says what the others lack.
- Print and cut out: nine 63 × 88 mm cards per page, the size of playing cards, with a decorated back if you like.
What you can set
- Cards per family: four or six
- Word families (lait, laitier, laitage) have their own Happy Families game, on the “Word families” side
- Up to eight families, each with its colour
- Word in capitals, print or cursive, or several writings
- The categories found by Lexikit, or sorted by you in Categories
- Decorated back for double-sided printing
- On screen: each picture into the box of its family, with the whole class
Ways to use it
- Use the vocabulary of a term again by asking for the cards with a full sentence
- Play in small groups on their own, after the sorting lessons
- In a language class, Happy Families with the class's words
Frequently asked questions
Do I need seven families?
No. Lexikit makes as many families as your categories allow, up to eight. Three families of four cards are enough for two or three players.
A word is in no family. What can I do?
Open Categories in the options: you can sort the word into a category by hand, or make a category of your own.
Can we play with word families?
Yes, with the Happy Families of word families, which has its own page. In “Create a resource”, switch to the “Word families” side: each family gathers words formed on the same root, lait, laitier, laitage, three or four cards each. The word families exist in French, German and Spanish.
With the same words
The boxesTwo to four boxes, one per category, and the pictures to cut out and stick in the right one. The boxes above the pictures, on their own sheet or one per sheet.
Happy Families of word familiesA Happy Families game where each family is a word family: lait, laitier, laitage, allaiter. In French, German or Spanish, three or four cards per family.
Memory gameTurn the cards over and find the pairs of pictures, or of words and pictures.
Your turn
Open Lexikit, write your words, choose a resource: all that is left is to print. Free, no account, and your words stay on your device.
Make a Happy Families game