Free, Printable Children's Game (Fill-in-the-Blanks): My Best Friend

Instructions: Use the print button below to print out this free children's fill-in-the-blanks game. Make one printout for each player. Someone who is not playing asks the other players for the name of their best friends and fills in the information on line 1. Ask each player to choose a letter a through e for each of the other blanks and fill in the corresponding words or phrases from the list below associated with that number. Read the results aloud and laugh!

My best friend (1)_____________________________ is nothing if not (2) ____________________________ . S/he (3)___________________________ whenever (4)_________________________________. One time, s/he (5)____________________ because (6)_______________________________. Another time, s/he sent me (7)________________________ from (8)_______________________________. And let other people get in the way of inspiration? Never! Why s/he even (9)_____________________(10)___________________________________ when (11)__________________________________. S/he is always up to something, and usually that something is (12)____________________________. When I am with my best friend, I feel like (13)_________________________________________________.

(1) fill in best friend's first name

(2)a. inventive

b. clean

c. the world's biggest hypochondriac

d. impulsive

e. clumsy

(3) a. turns cartwheels

b. stalks squirrels

c. eats cheese curls

d. makes up tall tales

e. throws water balloons

(4)a. scary music plays

b. Republicans win an election

c. no one's looking

d. the teacher gives us homework

e. the pipes leak

(5) a. tripped over a bicycle

b. shinnied up a flagpole

c. hid under the bed

d. charged me $3.95

e. ate my dinner

(6)a. raccoons turned over the trashcan

b. I lost a library book

c. there was a lunar eclipse

d. s/he got a rash

e. a mouse ran by

(7)a. chain mail

b. a box full of rocks

c. on a fool's errand

d. a half-eaten sandwich

e. stinky sneakers

(8)a. sunup to sundown

b. a famous movie star

c. the town dump

d. the mayor's office

e. the movie theater floor

(9)a. kicked

b. disguised

c. claimed no knowledge of

d. hugged and kissed

e. repurposed

(10)a. our joint marble collection

b. the organ grinder's monkey

c. the popcorn popper

d. our kindergarten teacher

e. the mailman

(11)a. the CIA came calling

b. the neighbors disappeared

c. the door bell rang

d. a tornado touched down

e. our parents got suspicious

(12)a. sneaky

b. crazy

c. unmentionable

d. against the law

e. doomed to failure

(13).a. fleas got inside my underwear

b. my feet are never going to stop hurting

c. hopping a freight train

d. starting a jello war

e. calling the cops