Hink Pinks
Here's what I have saved from previous discussions.

What is a hink-pink, you say?
It's a pair of rhyming words that relate to the definition.  A couple 
of examples will illustrate the basic idea.

          definition         answer
    A.  an obese feline     fat cat
    B.  an arithmetical trail   math path



    Find the hink-pink in the right side column for the definition
given on the left side.

     1. A silent answer          			a. pine line
     2. A naked polygon          			b. eight mate
     3. Where you go fishing for half-lines  	c. stray ray
     4. A ceremony for a dead integer    		d. solution pollution
     5. Where pieces of circles go to play   	e. sphere cheer
     6. A malignant solution         			f. mum sum
     7. A lumpy ball             				g. school rule
     8. Friend of a number           			h. bare square
     9. A football player with 3 feet    		i. fraction traction
    10. What corsets do          			j. ray bay
    11. An impartial polygon        			k. plane gain
    12. Trees in a row           			l. number slumber
    13. A boat for pieces of a circle    		m. numeral funeral
    14. A sensible citizen           			n. dull null
    15. Let's hear it for the round one!     		o. cancer answer
    16. A frozen answer          			p. parallel caramel
    17. Messing up a pretty answer       		q. arc park
    18. The teacher's yardstick     			r. high pi
    19. Treatment for a broken number    	s. yard guard
    20. A round pointed history      		t. near sphere
    21. A tall irrational number         		u. chord ward
    22. Chewy, but not skewy         		v. numb sum
    23. A wandering half-line        			w. cute root
    24. A follow-up heart attack         		x. graph staff
    25. A pretty extraction          			y. inch pinch
    26. Where sick circle segments go    		z. conical chronicle
    27. An increase of a flat surface   		aa. rational national
    28. Number line workers         			bb. arc ark
    29. A boring empty set          			cc. corollary coronary
    30. When digits sleep           			dd. fair square


More

jail mail   		prison letter
funny bunny		humorous rabbit
witty kitty 		funny cat
waste paste 		leftover glue
crazy daisy 		silly flower
ants' pants 		insects' trousers
sweet treat 		sugary snack
metal kettle    	iron teapot
mad lad 		angry boy
hot cot 		warm bed
snug rug    		cozy carpet
pooch smooch    	dog kiss
wild child  		untamed kid
prime time  		choice hour
fast blast  		quick explosion
fun run 		enjoyable jog
stricken chicken    	ill hen
wide bride  		fat newlywed
smart start 		intelligent beginning
hare chair  		rabbit's seat
glad dad    		happy father
kitten mitten   	cat's glove
small ball  		tiny bouncer
tramp champ 	hobo winner





1.  HINK PINKS

This activity is called "Hink Pink" or "Hinky Pinky" or "Hinkety 
Pinkety" or "Hitinkety Pitinkety." The explanation of the different names is part 
of the game.
Hink pinks are one-syllable words that rhyme. You write down the 
"definition" and the kids come up with the hink pinks. For example, if 
the clue is "a large feline," the hink pink is "fat cat."
Hinky Pinkies are two-syllable words that rhyme. For example, "the 
salve given to Jason by Medea to protect him from the bulls" is a "lotion 
potion." 
Hinkety Pinketies have three syllables (e.g., "when military boats have 
a race" = "armada regatta"), and Hitinkety Pitinketys have four 
syllables. 
This activity is fun to use as a vocabulary builder, especially with 
many syllables, or as content review. Kids will also enjoy coming up with 
the clues and trying to fool you or others.

Following are some sample Hink Pinks:
*   a party at a convent = nun fun
*   a married rodent = mouse spouse
*   an earthquake on a Sunday morning = church lurch
*   a "hip" monster = cool ghoul
*   what lawyers feel when they lose = brief grief

How about some Hinky Pinkies?
*   a bull who sings ballads has a = mellow bellow
*   theft of prime cut beef = sirloin purloin
*   sibling of a skin blemish = sister blister
*   the highest plastic container = upper tupper
*   a magical grasshopper = hocus locust
*   a magical woman who milks cows = dairy fairy
*   an airplane at greater elevation than the others = higher flier
*   a rabbit with a sense of humor = funny bunny
*   a young cat in love = smitten kitten
*   why the child was scared of the storm = frightening lightning
*   a fruit that needs a shave = hairy berry
*   an anxious snake = hyper viper
*   a tired flower = lazy daisy
*   a big hill that spits out water = fountain mountain
*   a more intelligent boxer = brighter fighter

Ready for some Hinkety Pinketies?
*   a place where the national leader lives = president's residence
*   a disturbance during a church service = devotion commotion
*   history of spectacles = monocle chronicle
*   two drums conversing with each other at a jazz concert = percussion 
discussion
*   a pizza delivery man who needs a shave = hairier carrier
*   stripping paint with snakes = serpentine turpentine
*   attacking someone with false praise = flattery battery
*   a fuzzy UPS man = furrier courier
*   race of sea-faring craft = armada regatta
*   ships crewed by apes = gorilla flotilla

Hink pinks are part of 4 blocks.  Cunningham mentions them in at least 
two different books that I have read. They are in the May/ June section ( 
pg.106) of the first grade M by M.   She also discusses and gives a list , and 
some kid samples in the 2nd edition of Phonics They Use pgs. 79-81.  They 
are a lot of fun and the kids like doing them.  After the kids make them up 
and illustrate them, I collect them and turn them into booklets. Then I put 
the booklets in the SSR boxes.  The kids love to read them over and over.