Family games and activities
for ESL kids lessons

Games and activities for teaching “Family” to ESL kids

Family photos

Have all of your students bring in photos of family members. This is a great way to personalize their language. Each student can tell the class who their photos are of and give some extra information (E.g. This is my uncle. He lives in Tokyo).

As a follow up activity, the teacher or other students can ask questions about each family member (e.g. Where does he/she live?, What’s his/her favorite food?, What does he/she do? (job), etc.).

Family photo tree craft

Have all of your students bring in photos of family members – as many members as possible (aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, etc.). Then on construction paper make a family tree and pin it onto the wall.

It doesn’t need to be completed in one lesson – each week students can bring in more photos and add them to their family trees. Also, each week students can add more information about each member. For example, the 1st week tell the students their homework is to find out the ages of each member and in the next class they add this info to the family tree. Other things they can add each week is where they live, jobs, hobbies, favorite things, places of birth, etc. Their craft will grow and grow over time and your students will become very proud of it.

Family lesson plan

We also have a FREE lesson plan on family vocabulary which includes games and activities as well as other lesson materials.

Click to download our Family lesson plan.

Family song

We have a song available for download focusing on family relationships called “The family song“.