Hink Pinks
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Word Play Plus Reference Skills in One Lesson Plan
You can create hink pinks as part of your language arts lesson or just for the sheer fun of playing with words. What is a hink pink? And what about a hinky pinky or a hinkety pinkety?
Try these as examples:
Hink Pink What is a sham cobra?
A fake snake!
Hinky Pinky What is a fantastic detective?
A super snooper!
Hinkety Pinkety What is a frozen vehicle?
An icicle tricycle.
Do you see the pattern? Each riddle is a set of two rhyming words with a clue. One syllable sets are hink pinks. Two syllable sets are hinky pinkies. Three syllable sets are hinkety pinketies. They are fun to solve, and they are fun to create!
So what's a smashed fedora? Yes, A FLAT HAT.
Learn Vocabulary and Rhyme with Hink Pinks
Introduce hink pinks to your children. Give them a few examples. Try some online hink pinks or a free printable worksheet or two.
Enjoy the fun word play and then make your own hink pinks. Here's how to go about it.
STEP ONE: Think of two rhyming words that can go together in a phrase. Don't worry if the combination is ridiculous; that makes it fun! You can use a rhyming dictionary to find words too. Write down your two word phrase. Make sure that the combination is the same number of syllables.
example -- spare chair
Would you like a convenient handout with these steps for making hink pinks? Just click here for hink pink worksheet.
STEP TWO: Now make your clue. Think of a different way to express the two terms in your phrase. Using a thesaurus is helpful for finding synonyms to make your clue.
so how about an extra seat?
STEP THREE: Now put the two parts together, and your hink pink is finished:
An extra seat?
SPARE CHAIR
Once you know how to make hink pinks, you can create your own puzzle pages and board games. Look in the freebies below where there are printable templates to use for hink pink games.
So what's a hair piece for a hog? Yes, A PIG WIG.
Rhyming Dictionary
An Essential Tool For Creating Hink Pinks
Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
Amazon Price: $4.04 (as of 02/12/2012)
A rhyming dictionary is so fun for word games, writing poetry, and just for browsing.
Thesaurus (paperback)
For Writing Clues to Your Hink Pinks
The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
Amazon Price: $3.14 (as of 02/12/2012)
Using a thesaurus is an important reference skill. And every library needs one!
Online Rhyming Dictionaries
Find a Rhyming Pair for your Hinky Pinky
- Word Central from Merriam-Webster
- Click on RHYMING when you put a word into the search box.
- Rhyme Zone
- Besides searching for rhymes, this engine gives you synonyms, antonyms, and even places where Shakespeare used the word.
- Rhymer
- Input a word and get rhyming options.
- Poetry 4 Kids
- Another rhyming search engine.
Online Thesaurus
Choose Synonyms for Your Clues
- Merriam-Webster's Word Central
- This site offers your choice of Dictionary, Thesaurus, or Rhyming for any word you enter. It's designed especially for children.
- Thesaurus.Com
- This search engine provides a LOT of information, so a younger child may need help sorting it all out.
Want More Hink Pinks and Hinky Pinkies?
a shy fly
an elated father?
happy pappy
a reptile snowstorm?
a lizard blizzard
an evil pastor?
a sinister minister
Printable Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkies, and Hinkety Pinketies
Worksheets, Puzzles, and Games
- MUST DOWNLOAD! Vocabulary Builders -- Hink Pinks and More
- Go to page three of this long word play file. You'll see a printable hink pink board game for two players. There are also templates for creating your own game with the hink pinks, hinky pinkies, and hinkety pinketies that you create. This is a fantastic resource! Be sure not to miss this one.
- Hink Pinks with a Christmas Presents Theme
- Only seven, but they are quite fun.
- Easy Hink Pinks
- First in a set of five. Ten hink pinks to solve. Page two has the answers.
Look for four more PDF hink pink worksheets here. - Matching Hink Pink Game
- A printable board game for two players can be found on pages 9-10 of this file.
- Vocabulary Games
- See page nine for hink pinks and hinky pinkies.
- Hig Pig Word Game
- Play online with this interactive game. It's a bit hard, though, since you have to type the answer exactly in order to get it correct. Nevertheless, it's a good introduction to hink pinks.
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Caitlin Devlin
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- What is a animal and a bonet???
A rats hat.
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- What about . . . A cave where spirits are sold? Please help me figure it out. Thanks!
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Miss Peach
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- Could it be a wine mine?
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- Hear, hear! Jimmie's work is above par. I have never experienced a home-school environment, but I can tell that Jimmie's homeschool work here is the way it "should" be for students. Don't see why she can't share "and" sell. ...Maybe she already does. :D ...Kudos for Lensmaster Jimmie.
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Easy Word Games: Building Language Skills Through Puzzles, Hink Pinks, Rebus Riddles, and More
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