Games — Windows Project

The Windows Project has always based its workshops on games, and these cover a wide range of ways into writing poems or developing particular skills. Since 1980 the Project has published workshop reports combining information on method with young peoples' writing.

The games will be of most use to teachers and playleaders, but they have been used successfully across a wide age and ability range and anyone promoting poetry writing or literacy may find them of interest.

We also have some virtual games for you try! Why not have a go? Click the links below to play.

LIMERICKER

PENTAMETER

HORROR

NURSERY RHYMES

POCKET ROCKET PRIMARY RHYMER

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The Amazing Push Poem Machine

The world’s longest-running communal poem.

Throw a ball to select a letter then use that letter to start a word to add to the on-going poem. Lots of fun for carnivals, festivals, conferences and playschemes.

Amazing Push Poem Machine

The World Game

What if you could make a world of your own? Flick a counter to find four quarters of four different continents. Join them all together to create a new land then imagine what it’s like to live there!

Amazing Animals

Based on your own initials, roll the dice to find the name of your own imaginary animal. Think where it lives, what is its personality – then everything else about what your creature does.

The World Game

Birds

Imagine you’re a bird. What is it like to fly? Where do you live, what do you eat? How do you see humans and how do humans see you?

Red/Green

Red and green are opposites on the spectrum. Make your way across the board, then take the poem challenge to create positives from negatives.

City of Poems

How Do You See Yourself?

Take this personality profile quiz to steer you down the pathways to discover the words which will fit your character and help you to write your poem.

City of Poems

There are words all around us everywhere we look: street signs, road signs, advertising hoardings. Now’s your chance to replace them all with poems!

Sensational Poetry

A curious cabinet of bottles and phials filled with things to taste, to smell, to touch, to see, to hear…

City of Poems

The Rhyme Board

Amazing Push Poem Machine

Bus Stop

Standing at the bus stop, take a journey back in time to find the history behind Liverpool’s streets.

Never More

Devised to commemorate James William Carling, pavement artist buried at Rice Lane Cemetery who illustrated Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven.

Sensational Poetry

Gardens

Make your way through the maze to find… a garden for Dracula, a garden for a Martian, a garden for Sherlock Holmes. Based on Dave Calder’s original poems.

Fractured Sonnets

Roll a 14 sided dice pick a book of poems.

Roll again and pick a line

Pick a word from the line

and then do it all again!

Use these two words to make a line that fits with the rest of the poem!