How to Play Homophone Teakettle

Players rack their brains to guess which homophones are being used in a sentence in this silly and challenging game.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Books Of Homonyms
• Children's Dictionaries

1. Explain to players that homophones are two words that sound alike but have different meanings, such as "ate" and "eight" or "trunk" (an elephant's) and "trunk" (a type of luggage).

2. Take turns creating sentences that use a pair of homophones. Instead of saying the actual homophones in the sentence, insert the word "teakettle" in their places.

3. Have other players try to figure out what the homophones are.

4. Look at this example: "I am going to teakettle some corn when I go teakettle the farm stand." The homophones in this sentence are "buy" and "by."

5. Go to the next player when the current homophones are figured out.

Tips & Warnings

• This game is best played with children who can understand the concept of a homophone - usually age 6 and up.
• The words "homophone" and "homonym" are often used interchangeably, although technically, homonyms are words with different meanings that both sound alike and are spelled alike.