Big Fun

Games, quizzes and more

Questioning and listening doesn't have to be a chore, it can be fun!

This page is dedicated to ways of helping you communicate in an exciting way. There is a complete range of activities, games you can play on your own and ones you can play with your family and friends. There are activities you can do just for fun, and ideas for how you can have fun and fundraise for ChildLine at the same time.

There is only one rule before you proceed - you must have FUN!

Why don't you?

Play The Listening Game

(Kindly donated by the BT Education Programme
supporting Communication Skills for Life)

The Big Listen Screensaver

Click here to download this fun Big Listen screensaver on to your computer.

Listen-o-meter

What do your family and friends really know about you? Click here to find out how you can test their knowledge.

Big Question, Big Money

What's your Big Question? Click here to get the chance to find out the answers to the question that matters most to you whilst raising much-needed funds for ChildLine.

Get the answers to your Big Question and help young people who turn to ChildLine get answers too.

Different Questions?

Have you read our top tips on how to ask questions on the Big Question page? If not check it out. Asking different types of questions can get very different results. Play these quick and easy games to see how good you are at questioning and listening!

Who am I?

1. Find a partner that you can play the game with, they can be a family member, friend, teacher or anyone who wants to join in.
2. Your partner picks a famous person and doesn't tell you,
3. You ask them questions that can only be answered with a YES or NO.
4. Your partner will respond with only YES/NO answers until you get it right or you have used up 20 questions.
5. Then you switch over and your partner has to guess a famous person that you pick.

YES NO

1. Find a partner that you can play the game with, they can be a family member, friend, teacher or anyone who wants to join in.
2. Use a stopwatch or timer.
3. Your partner has to ask you as many questions as possible in 1 minute. Your partner should ask you closed questions, those which you will naturally want to respond to with a YES or NO answer. For example, Is your name Billy?
4. You must resist the urge to respond with a YES or NO answer and think of clever ways of answering the questions. For example, My first name is Billy.
5. The game finishes if you:
   - take more than 5 seconds to answer a question
   - answer YES or NO to a question
   - last for a minute without saying YES or NO. In which case you win!

It's all about questioning

1. Find a partner that you can play the game with, they can be a family member, friend, teacher or anyone who wants to join in.
2. Use a stopwatch or timer.
3. For two minutes you can only ask questions. When your partner asks you a question, you must respond with one too. For example:
   - Is your favourite food pasta?
   - Yes it is. Do you like pizza?
4. The game finishes if you run out of questions or the two minutes has passed

Question time

Put your teachers to the test! See how many questions they can answer in one minute. Make it a competition and put them head to head. Who will win? The geography department or the maths department? The head teacher or the deputy head?

There are lots more fundraising ideas on the Get Involved pages and in the fundraising packs. Have a look, develop an idea and have lots of fun.

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We have more fun and exciting things coming soon. So click here and register your details and we will send you an email when new things have been added to the website