# Interactive PowerPoint Classroom Games: 13 Free Templates for Online Teaching

https://ijuhsu.com/en/posts/ppt-activities · 2026-07-12
Category: teaching · Tags: ppt, teaching, interactive

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The scariest part of online teaching is the student on the other side of the screen quietly turning off their camera and drifting away. This series collects 13 interactive teaching activities I built with PowerPoint during my online-teaching years — from simple multiple-choice questions and card-flip games to a full Monopoly board and an RPG adventure. Every one comes with a step-by-step tutorial and a free downloadable template.

What they all have in common: **you only need PowerPoint**. No extra software to buy, no new tools to learn. Most of them are powered by PPT's "trigger" feature — once you've learned it, you can invent your own variations.

Each activity is labelled with its best use case, so you can pick what your lesson needs: a spinning wheel or guessing game for warm-ups, multiple choice or card flips for practice, Monopoly or Snakes and Ladders for review, balloon darts or lucky punch for reward time.

## All 13 Activities

## Further Reading

Once your activities are interactive, make the slides themselves look better and run your classroom more efficiently:

- [Teaching Slide Design series](/en/posts/pptdesign-intro) — fonts, background removal, and free image libraries
- [Google Tools for Classroom Management series](/en/posts/googletools-01) — auto-graded quizzes with Google Forms and Sheets