Game Ideas for Virtual Meetings with Your Mentee 

Word Games

Word Search:
  1. Visit the Word Search site and pick a category (lots of great topics)
  2. Click begin and share your screen.
  3. Work together to find the words
Crossword Puzzle:
  1. Visit the online crossword page
  2. Do the puzzle of the day, or click next puzzle. 
  3. Share your screen and solve together. 
  4. You can get hits on letters or compete words

​Read Across America

  1. Visit the Twinfield's March Listening Library.
  2. Share your screen and pick an activity or book together.
  3. Explore this choice board, created by Melissa Lebata! There are links to read alouds, drawing activities, and book trailers.
  4. Request any art supplies you might need 

Category Games

  1. Go to the game link
  2. highlight the categories you want to play (you can deselect the ones you don't want) - click create game
  3. Customize your game - choose your letters, pick 2 player, # of rounds, and 'invite a friend.'
  4. Copy and share this link in the chat​

Mad Libs

​Personality Quiz

Hidden Pictures
  1. Click Online MadLibs for Kids
  2. Scroll down to find a Madlibs that you both want to try.
  3. One of you share your screen and work together to fill in the parts of speech.
  4. Hit the "generate' button and read your MAD LIB out loud.

Whiteboard Games
  1. Visit National Geographic Kids
  2. Choose one of the animal quizzes to do. 
  3. One of you share your screen and answer the questions to find out what baby animal you would be or what planet you should live on.....
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Movement Games 
  1. Go to Highlights Kids
  2. Choose a Hidden Pictures (they start off easy, just hit 'load more games' to see harder options)
  3. One of you will share your screen and you will work together to find the hidden pictures. 

Sit Down Games

1. Create a tic tac toe board using the whiteboard feature
2. Choose who is "X" and "O"
3. Attempt to get three in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally)

1. Click here for randomly generated charades topics
2. Have one participant act out the word, while the other guesses

1. The "Question Master" thinks of a person, place, or thing. 
2. The "Guesser" has 20 questions to collect clues and discover what person, place, or thing the Question Master chose.      
 Card Games, Checkers or Chess!
  1. Choose the game from this link
  2. Click on the START GAME butting
  3. Share the code with your friend
  4. Have fun

1.Use the whiteboard function for a drawing canvas. 
2. Choose a topic/category (like animals) and give the artist a one minute timer to draw
3. See how many drawings the "guesser" gets right during that timespan!
Read a Book Together
  1. Visit the Twinfield Library digital resources page
  2. Share your screen with your mentee
  3. Browse and read books together 

1. Create a list of items to collect (ex. find something red, bring your favorite book). Click here for some ideas. 
2. Share your findings! 
Take a Virtual Tour 
  1. Click here to go to the SanDiego Zoo!
  2. Click here to visit the New England Aquarium

1. Take turns listing three facts about yourself.
2. Two of the facts are true, while one of them is a lie. It is up to the other person to find the lie! 

1. Use the whiteboard feature to create a board of equidistant dots.
2. Click here for full game rules.

1. Freeze Dance! Queue up some songs, either on YouTube, a cd, or a playlist.
2. Pause randomly and enjoy!

1. Take turns asking each other wholesome scenario based questions. 
2. Click here for some sample questions.


​​1. ​Use the Zoom whiteboard as a blank canvas to write on.
2. Using the textbox, write down words with their letters jumbled up.
3. Players must try to spell the word correctly below. 

1. Pick a "Simon." 
2. Give your partner commands.
3. Your partner loses if they follow an instruction that wasn't preceded by "Simon Says..."

Use the screen-share feature to play a full game of Yahtzee by clicking here (instructions on site). 

1. Click here for randomized sudoku puzzles.
2. Recreate the board using the whiteboard feature. 
3. Puzzle it out with your partner! Click here for the full list of rules. 

1. Try human rock, paper, scissors!
2. Decide on full body poses for each object. (Such as curling in a ball when choosing "rock"). 
3. Enjoy! Remember, rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, and paper beats rock. 

1. Click here for a virtual gameboard. 
2. Click "Invite a Friend" and send the link to your opponent. 
​3. Enjoy! Remember, you need four in a row to win (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal).