Charades Ideas by Theme and Age
A charades deck written for your crowd, with a round timer and team scores on one phone.
Charades needs no board and no box, only something to act, and that is where most game nights stall: film titles handed to six-year-olds, farm animals handed to a table of adults. These decks fix the fit. The funny deck is 290 scenes where something goes wrong, written for grown-ups who would sooner laugh than win. The kids deck keeps to words a new reader can sound out. Reverse and telephone charades get whole-team scenes and action chains, because those formats fall flat with single words. The holiday, Bible and animal decks stay inside their own subject. On every page you press Start round, hand the phone to the actor and tap Next card after each correct guess. Team scores sit under the timer, and the full list is printed at the foot of the page, so you can read every card before your guests do.
By crowd 3
Decks written for who is in the room: adults who want to laugh, kids who are still learning to read, and teenagers.
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Funny Charades Ideas for Adults
290 clean scenes that are funny to act out, from a cat refusing a bath to a meeting that should have been an email.
For example Riding along on a teenager's first drive
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Charades Generator for Kids
458 charades cards for kids in 14 topics. Every Easy card is one word, such as Hop or Elephant, and Hard cards are small scenes.
For example Sandbox
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Charades Ideas for Teens
194 clean scenes from the life of a 13 to 17 year old, from Forgetting your locker combination to Being left on read.
For example Taking a quiz to find out what kind of bread you are
By way of playing 4
Cards for the versions of charades that need their own material: the whole team acting at once, a scene passed down a line, category play and phrases shown as picture strings.
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Reverse Charades Ideas
194 scenes for reverse charades, where the whole team acts and one player guesses: a rowing crew, a car wash, penguins huddling against the cold.
For example A revolving door
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Dumb Charades Words
202 dumb charades words in 8 topics: film scenes without titles, proverbs, words to act in two halves and 26 difficult words, each with a hint.
For example Body language
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Emoji Charades Ideas
556 emoji puzzles in 14 topics: idioms, proverbs and two-picture words, each with a hidden answer and a line that explains the pictures. No film titles.
For example 👩🏫 🐕 · 🥶 🦶 · 🐂 🐶
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Telephone Charades Ideas to Pass Down a Line
175 action chains for telephone charades, from Make a sandwich, then drop it to four-beat scenes that test the whole line.
For example Fill a bird feeder, step away, then shoo off a squirrel
By subject 3
One subject per deck, for a classroom, a youth group or a themed party: animals, Bible people and stories, and Spanish words.
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Bible Charades Ideas
168 Bible charades cards from Genesis to Acts, each with its reference: Zacchaeus climbing a sycamore tree, Rhoda leaving Peter knocking at the gate.
For example A blind man washing mud off his eyes and seeing
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Animal Charades Generator
180 animal charades cards in 12 habitats, each with a real behavior to act: a penguin sliding on its belly, a ferret doing a war dance.
For example Sea lion walking on its flippers
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Spanish Charades Generator with English Meanings
197 charades cards in Spanish, from single words like Nadar to sayings like Tomar el pelo, with the English meaning in the list.
For example El panadero
Holidays and occasions 5
Decks that stay with one date or one party, from Halloween and Thanksgiving to a baby shower or a wedding.
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Thanksgiving Charades Ideas
165 Thanksgiving charades cards in 8 topics: basting the turkey, a parade balloon on a windy day, a toast that goes on too long.
For example Setting off the smoke alarm with the rolls
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Baby Shower Charades Words for the Whole Guest List
174 baby shower cards to act out: diapers, strollers, the 3 a.m. feeding, baby's firsts and 22 baby sayings. No card is about the mom-to-be's body.
For example Fitting a stroller in the trunk
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Halloween Charades Words for a Party or a Classroom
219 Halloween cards to act out, from Witch and Ghost to a mummy unravelling and a skeleton in the closet. Nothing gory.
For example The lights going out in the basement
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Easter Charades Ideas for Home, Classroom or Sunday School
173 Easter cards to act out: the egg hunt, dyeing eggs, a chick hatching, customs from Ukraine to Bermuda and 20 Easter story cards with Bible references.
For example Wearing new shoes that pinch
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Wedding Charades Words
160 clean wedding moments to act out, from A ring that will not go on to A speech that runs long.
For example A toddler who escapes down the aisle