All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

Kids love a guessing game! I'll be using this activity to review pet names. I'm having a student pick a color and then a number. They have to guess which pet is behind the door. If they guess correctly, they get a star. After we play, they can choose any pet and make their own door for the rest of the class to guess. I used 3 sheets of creative paper cut in the middle. This way, I was able to make 2 doors with each paper. I drew the pets on white paper, cut them out, and glued them in the doors after I had already drawn the doors and made the details. I didn't draw a cat and a dog because these are the easiest ones and we had made cats and dogs in other classes. I glued all the doors onto a piece of cardboard, so I can hold them all up at the same time for students to easily see. I really liked the final result and how all the colors look together.  

I want to do this when we finally go back to our classroom. Students in groups would make their take one posters with activities people can or can’t do and place them around the classroom. Everybody would go around the room and take slips of things they can do.  They then would sit in their groups and compare what they can do. After, they would write  sentences using their slips.  Last, students can also be divided into teams to mime the sentences.  

Still on the topic of pets, we will be talking about unusual pets people have. I will read the story A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni  besides the one they already have in their book. They will do this activity after they listen to the story. I drew a Pinterest inspired (almost always) on a box I had, colored it and cut it out. I glued it onto a bottle cap so students would be able to slide it around. I  then painted several chopsticks I have been saving from sushi orders for students to match with the colors of the chameleon. After the matching is done, they will draw their own chameleon to match one of the other sticks. One day, when we go back to our classrooms, I want to do this activity and have the students draw their chameleons and paint their own sticks for other students in the class to match up. I love chameleons, maybe, because we have all had to become one this year.