This game suits elementary school fifth- and sixth-graders and junior high school first-graders. It is adapted from the game "Scattergories."
First, explain the rules and demonstrate the game with the whole class acting as a 'team.' Pick one letter and ask the students to volunteer answers for each category e.g. food, job, place, verb, adjective, etc.
Put the class into teams of four or five students each. Tell them to get their pens/pencils ready. Shuffle the scattergories sheets and hand them out to the teams: one for each team, face down. (The xlsx and pdf are formatted to print two sheets per A4 page. You can cut them after you print them). Then, tell students to turn the sheet over and work together to complete it as quickly as possible.
Keep it fast and punchy: give the teams a time limit of five minutes.
At the end, congratulate the team(s) that completed their sheets (or the most cells on one sheet). You could also have a plenary discussion about how difficult it was; common themes and ideas; common spelling mistakes; more suggestions for teams that struggled etc.
For simplicity, you may want to avoid giving any teams the sheets for Q, V, W, X, Y, or Z. However, for completeness I have still included them. You might give them to a team that has finished their sheet quickly or as a 'premium challenge.'
I played small team scattergories with my JHS 2nen and they really enjoyed it. To motivate them to work faster, I gave stickers as a reward.
It was hard for some of my students to come up with a fruit for certain letters like "i" and "e" so I would suggest allowing them to not write an answer, adjust the category or changing the answers they could provide (such as allowing students to write a country name first and then a fruit (like "Indian mango")).