Sticky Bingo adds an element of skill to the beloved classic game. All you need is a some paper, a whiteboard, markers, and an eraser. Who can play Sticky Bingo works best with classrooms of seve...

On mobile platforms you may have noticed that certain kinds of buttons always have some small amount of implicit padding, while on desktop they do not. In this blog post I’ll describe why this happ...

Mathy Card Game is a fast and challenging card game that helps young learners of English practice their oral arithmetic skills. Players compete to quickly think of a way to calculate a target numbe...

Teaching at an ESL cram school means that you’ll occasionally get roped into efforts to recruit new students. School festivals in particular are a big deal because they offer an opportunity to enga...

A typhoon is blustering its way around the whiteboard and your class is caught in the chaos! As sticky ball games go, on the spectrum from educational to just fun, this one skews way towards the la...

Cambridge English offers a range of very nice examinations for learners of English as a second language. I personally have been preparing students to take their Young Learners (YLE) for a quite a f...

Sticky Dash is a fast-paced, team-based sticky ball game that adds some excitement, time pressure, and randomization to what would otherwise be a boring repeat-after-me type of task. It also has th...

Teachers who find themselves pressed for time will find this little ball covered in suctions cups to be a surprisingly flexible and effective tool. Is your class starting in a few minutes and y...