The FirstVoices team wants to support language learners with fun and creative ways to practice your languages at home, so we have come up with a list of eight family-friendly games and activities for at-home learning using your community's FirstVoices website. If you enjoy any of the activities below, or you have ideas for other innovative ways to use FirstVoices, please feel free to share your thoughts with hello@firstvoices.com. Connection and community is important, now more than ever, and we would love to hear from you.

Instructions:

1. Find the Human Things/Activities on your FirstVoices website and using the words available either print flashcards or write words that relate to items around your house onto sheets of paper/sticky notes

2. Stick the pieces of paper to the objects so that they act as labels

3. As you walk around your house throughout the day, practice saying the words out loud

4. Challenge yourself, family members and roommates to remember what words are, without looking at the labels
   
   
   
   

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Instructions:

1. Print out the Scavenger Hunt guide or write the questions on a piece of paper

2. Explore your community's FirstVoices website or a FirstVoices website for a related language to find the answers

Instructions:

1. Pick a category on your FirstVoices website. For example: Animals

2. Write down words in that category on pieces of paper and put the pieces of paper in a hat

3. Take turns picking pieces of paper from the hat and acting out the words, with the other person guessing what word is being acted out

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Instructions:

1. Find the Animals category on your FirstVoices website, and print or write out the words for different animals

2. Then, in a dark room, shine a flashlight or a lamp against a bare wall

3. Make shadow puppets with your hands of the different animals you have the words for

4. If you have two or more people playing, take turns guessing which animal the person is making with their shadow puppet

Here is an instructional video on how to make shadow puppets to get you started. But feel free to get creative!

Instructions:

1. Find the Food category on your FirstVoices website and using the words available, make a pretend grocery list.

2. You can use the following list as a guide:

   1. Find a vegetable or fruit

   2. Find a type of meat or fish

   3. Find something salty

   4. Find something sweet

   5. Find something to drink

   6. Find a herb, spice, condiment or garnish

3. Now that you have all of your ingredients, make a menu for your make-believe dinner. It can be as silly, delicious or gross as you want!

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