One of my favorite activities for the kids during summer is to create your own board games. We've done them for school projects, too. It's a great way to learn about something by researching it to create questions and make the game more authentic.
You may remember:
With us getting so into the World Cup this year (I surprised myself that I could sit for two hours straight not wanting to miss a minute), I thought it would be a great way to learn about some countries.
We made our games just before the semi-finals. I let the kids choose two teams each and gave them two days to make their own games without any help from me. I really didn't want them to talk to each other, either, because their projects always come out very similar if they do.
These pictures are of Isabela showing Joaquin how to play her game. She chose Argentina and Germany before we even knew they'd play each other. Joaquin had Brazil and The Netherlands. And...foreshadowing...both of their games had little paths that led to goals and you had to answer questions along the way to advance. Isabela put magnets on the bottom of her goalies so you could try to block your opponent from shooting their cotton ball into the goal. There were some technical difficulties with them and they kept falling down which was a frustrating them at first, but then we realized they were just like the real goalies!
Isabela wanted to draw pictures on her board representing the countries. There was a city, cows, and orcas along the ocean for Argentina...and pretzels, mountains, and castles for Germany.
The question cards were cute with little flags covering up the answers.
We have plans to make a board game for one of our favorite books we've listened to together this summer: Gregor the Overlander. But now they've gotten into the Divergent series so maybe we could use that instead.
Have you ever made your own board games?
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