One of my favorite wordplay projects for primary students involves compound words. If you think about it, the list of compound words is quite plentiful:
Pigtail
Mailbox
Sunshine
Driveway
Hometown
Can't you envision sunshine enveloping a pigtailed child standing on her driveway watching the mailman deliver letters in her hometown? Ask your child to draw the scene. Could your child make up a different scene or story if she separated the compound words: pig + tail or drive + way or home + town? Or, help you child come up with new words using an existing term, i.e., way: highway or beltway or skyway. Rhyming adds to the fun.
You can even make a competition out of finding any number of compound words. Set a timer and see who can come up with the most compound words in a minute.
Have fun and count +down!