Flashcards don't have to be boring!
In my house, my four children (ages 6 and under... and number five is on the way!) thoroughly enjoy playing SPEED with Spanish flashcards. We lay out three cards they are familiar with (check out flipfloplearning.com for flashcard games to help) and then I say one word in Spanish. The child that grabs the right one the fastest gets to keep it - but they have to say it correctly to be ablet to keep it!
My children are fairly fluent, so they say it in Spanish "Tengo el ______." or something similar.
We also play memory - the original game, and only use the card they know how to say in Spanish. Each time they turn over a card, they say the word in Spanish, whether it's a match or not. There are tons of Memory games out there, and you can even practice actions that way - the Winnie the Pooh one has Owl carrying Piglet (llegar) and another one with Pooh running (correr) and another one with Piglet hiding (esconder).
Flip n Flop Learning is coming out with flashcards that go flawlessly with the Flip Flop Spanish Workbooks, and will have even more game ideas included in each set.
From Sra. Gose, a weekly private lesson Spanish teacher, and author of Flip Flop Spanish Workbook you can go along for the ride as I post my class journals - what happens in classes, Spanish teaching tips, and just fun anecdotes about homeschooling and teaching Spanish to children. My classes don't have restrictive state guidelines, so the children simply get to learn what they need to know to communicate!
