Activities to Practise Compound Nouns

The following three activities can help your students / you to learn and practice compound nouns (CN).

You can do them as a classroom activity and at home as well.

1. CN Flowers

Help the kids make compound word flowers.

Have them draw a flower with petals, or print one for them (click on the picture to download it).

Then have them write a word in the middle of the flower and ask them to write compound words that utilize the word on the petals.

2. CN Artist

Give students a compound word and have them draw the two “parts” of the compound word.

For example, for a “busdriver” they would draw a bus and a driver.

teapot

treehouse

doorbell

bookshelf

sunflower

sunglasses

earrings

starfish

toothbrush

handbag

If the kids draw the pictures on separate pieces of paper, you can create a game from the pictures: mix them and kids have to match them to form CN.

3. CN Flashcards

Prepare flashcards, half with words and half with pictures.
Have your students lay them out in grid style and flip two cards over at a time.
The goal is to find a word and a picture to form a compound word.

You can do this activity in pairs, or in teams as a competition.

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