How To Play Heads Up Seven Up

Posted on 4/15/2022 by admin

Note: The game Heads Up Seven Up might have a similar name, but it's an in-your-seat guessing game that doesn't incorporate much physical activity. If you need a classroom game that does include active play, try a brain break. For example, there are 8 ways to make 7, 9 ways to make 8, etc. Once we have gone through this introductory lesson, I like to introduce Heads Up, Seven Up as a morning meeting game. I play it the way I learned to play in second grade. Seven kids are chosen to go to the front of the room. The rest of the students sit at their desks. It's a great way to quickly make up our mind anytime, anywhere. Honestly, flipping a real coin does leave some room for cheating. However, a virtual coin will always produce a random result. The Bottom Line. It's interesting how often we let such small objects determine the course of our actions. Count out enough question-and-answer matches for each student MINUS however many kids you'd like to be 'up' (seven works fine for typical class sizes, but you may want four for smaller classes). For example, if you have 30 students and want 7 'up,' count out 23 question-and-answer matches. Slip the answers into sleeve protector.

Name of Group Game: Heads Up Seven Up
Type:
Indoor

Number:
Medium Group (14 – 19 people) to
Large Group (20 + people)
Age: Elementary School

Time: 15 – 20 minutes

Summary: Classic game to play in the classroom!

Goal: Guess the person who press your thumb.

Preparation:
– Best played in a classroom with desks

How to Play the Heads Up Seven Up Game:
1. Ask for seven volunteers. Have the volunteers stand in front of the room.

2. Say “Heads down, thumbs up”. The children who were not selected covers their eyes with their arm and puts their heads down on their desks, with one thumb sticking up.

3. Once everyone’s heads are down, each volunteer must go up to a person, secretly press their thumb, and walk back to the front of the room.

4. After the volunteers return to the front of the room, say “heads up, seven up!”. Ask the seven children whose thumbs were pressed to stand up. Each child must guess which volunteer pressed his or her thumb. If the person is correct, then the volunteer sits down and the winner takes the volunteer’s place in the front. If the person is incorrect, then the volunteer remains at the front of the room.

5. The game continues again with the new set of volunteers.

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To add this game to your website or blog, just copy and paste the following URL: https://www.greatgroupgames.com/heads-up-seven-up

Free Heads Up Game

This is a screenshot from WikiHow’s instructions on how to play Heads-Up Seven-Up in case you’ve never had the fun/pressure of playing it.

Did anyone else play Heads-Up Seven-Up in grade school? That game made me SO nervous. I mean, if you were one of the seven people up front who had to go around and choose someone’s thumb to push down (if you don’t know the game, that sentence fragment probably made zero sense), there were just so many implications.

If you picked a boy, clearly that meant you liked the boy right?

Or it meant you liked a different boy but didn’t want to give it away so you picked another boy.

But then what if that other boy thought you liked him?

So then you just pick a girl…and deal with her disappointment when she realizes it’s you, not the other cute boy up front who picked her.

Heads Up Game Rules

That’s really a lot of pressure to put on second-graders.

But it doesn’t have anything to do with today’s post.

How Do U Play Heads Up Seven Up

Really, this is just a post to give wonderful blog readers a heads-up that I may be a little scarce around here through the summer. There WILL be hilariously fun Gilmore Guys posts and giveaways every Friday and some other Wednesday guests now and then. And when I can, I’ll put up a Monday fun post.