Back to School Icebreaker Idea - Play Pictionary

The new school year is approaching, and we would like to offer you an excellent icebreaker idea to kick start the new year in a fun way that your class will love. Kids of different ages enjoy drawing, and our drawing and guessing game is a great platform to organize a Pictionary game in your digital Classroom, be it remote or face to face.

Drawize is already used a lot in schools both for fun and learning. Teachers use our custom words option to define what words will be used in a particular game, customizing it for an array of different purposes. Some use it for fun at the end of class or the end of the day - in that scenario, you are free to use any words you think are fun for your pupils. Others use it for learning (biology parts of the body, vocabulary practice, math terms, second language reinforcement). However, you can use it in any other class by using a list of terms specific to the learned topic for the day.

This time we invite you to use it at the beginning of the school year as a great icebreaker activity that is guaranteed fun for kids. Many of them play it in their free time already, so bringing it into class with an ad‑free session can create instant engagement. (Teachers now have a dedicated Classroom license for ad‑free hosting.)

You can come up with a word list tailored precisely for your class and use it in a game. However, we will provide one list of Back to School Pictionary words that you can use straight as is or modify however you want.

Back to School Pictionary word list

To use this list, select all words and copy them, open your room settings, enable the custom words option, and paste words under your room's custom word list.

To read more about using Drawize in the Classroom, please visit our blog post on the online Pictionary for Classroom or view Classroom plans.

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