Donut Building Cards (Collaborative Game)

Overview

The Donut Building Collaborative Card Game is a highly productive opportunity for students to internalize using a variety of adjectives, adverbs, and nouns in sentences.

In particular, this activity will allow learners to become proficient at using the words right, left, top, and bottom in various combinations.

Students will need to pre-learn only 21 vocabulary words to play this game (all sets).

Currently, 3 different sets of 36 cards (for a total of 108 cards) are available for this game.

It's a collaborative card game in which players must verbally describe the donut portions in their possession to their fellow game players. Together, the players work to group the cards into complete donuts, all without showing each other the actual donut images on their cards.

How To Play

Groups: This game is best played in groups of 3 to 9 participants. All participants in each group have the same role.

Materials: One set of 36 Donut Cards per group.

Time / Game Round: 3-10 minutes

• With the group sitting around a table (or other playing surface), a group member must shuffle the the set of Donut Cards.
  
  
• Then a group member must deal the card out evenly among the group. It's fine if some group members have 1 more card than other group members.
  
  
• Then the group members must take turns describing one of their cards. (They cannot at any time show the donut side of their cards to any other player.)
  
  To do this, the current speaker should use the following sentence structure "I have the  _________________ of a donut with _________________ in the middle, _________________ icing, and _________________ sprinkles/streaks" and fill in the blanks with information about the donut portion on their card.
  
  For example:
  
  "I have the bottom left corner of a donut with no hole in the middle, mint icing, and flower sprinkles."
  
  Or
  
  "I have the top half corner of a donut with a hole in the middle, chocolate icing, and vanilla streaks."
  
  
• The speaker should then place the donut card they have described (with the donut portion image face down on the table (so that no other participant can see the donut image and must therefore depend entirely on the speaker's verbal description).
  
  
• To complete the donut, other members can contribute other donut portions to the same stack, while verbally specifying which portion they are adding, using the following sentence structure:
  
  "I have the bottom right corner of the same donut."
  
  Or
  
  "I have the top half of the same donut."
  
  
• Once a complete donut has been grouped into a single stack, another group member can take their turn describing the donut image on one of their remaining Donut Cards.
  
  
• This process should continue until all Donut Cards originally dealt out to group members are arranged into stacks (of 2-4 cards per stack) on the table.
  
  
• To confirm that accuracy of their verbal communication, the group members can then flip over each stack of 2-4 cards and check whether each stack is one complete donut.

Important Note: The instructor must make it clear to the participants that the Playguistics logo is always at the bottom of each card.