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Verbal problems - pg. 3

Name things that can be thrown and the target at which they are thrown.

Give reasons a person would share his/her head.

Things that explode.
ex: Dynamite, a volcano, Dad when he gets mad, a car tire

Name things that "Flies"
Ex.: Birds, insects, planes,
Saucer, swatter, glue gun after it burns me,

The problem is to build off the last letter of the response given before you.
The topic is carnival/ circus.
ex: Start with the word "Carnival"; you could say lollipop.
You have to stay on topic.

Name things you can do with one hand.

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence:
"I looked in my closet and saw ___ (DOING) ____."
ex: I looked in my closet and saw my shoes doing nothing.
I looked in my closet and saw Tonya Harding hitting Nancy Kerrigan.

Name as many days as you can (single word or phrase).
ex: Mother's Day, Daisy

Name things that have to do with spring or springs.
ex: Spring flowers, spring time, spring fever
Spring ahead, fall back; spring board for diving.

Begin with a compound word (ex. stardust).
Take turns going around the table using one part of the word to form a new word or phrase.

Name any uses for trees.

Who pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall and why was it done?

Name things that creep.

Name kinds of paint, or things with the word paint in them.

Name things that have to do with medicine.
ex: Take two asprin and call the doctor or Laughter is the best medicine.

Name as many ways to get up a flagpole as you can.

You are given a bottle of pop called Wacky Cola. Come up with a slogan for the product of Wacky Cola.

Go around the circle twice making up a story that begins with the line: "Once my dog ate a chocolate cake that I baked" and end with "But I still want to know - is that a daisy or a rose?" No one may pass and the lines must be 10 words long, but no more than 25 words.

A name that starts and ends with vowels.
ex:Anna, Erie, Lake Erie

Name words that have numbers or parts that should sound like numbers in them.
ex: "Two"sday (Tuesday), "four"tune (fortune), etc.

Talk to our about a "slinky" giving as many creative uses as possible.
Ex. You go down stairs by yourself, you move between hands, you look like spring in bed, this is an antenna for an alien, a fishing pole for a whirlpole, a telescope

What are the uses of bubble gum?

What are all the uses of umbrella?

If you could give an animal, person, or thing a "noise" name, what would it be?
Ex. Cow is moo-moo

Name as many "oxymorons" as you can. (two words next to each other that are opposite but make sense together)
Ex. Jumbo shrimp, icy hot

Name puns dealing with ocean and sea life.
Ex. Play me a "tuna"

 

 
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