A Game!

So here's a great game expecially if you have lots of kids of all ages... wow how often do you find that!  First let me back up I was reading over on the FIAR boards and one of the moms there was talking about a game she made (I believe she got the idea from a book) it was a race car game  that had as many starts and finishes as players (6 kids then 6 starts and 6 finishes) and it is played like this each kid has their own set of cards reviewing the math facts that they are working on, they each pick a start and the first person figures their first math problem and then goes that many spaces then the next and at any time someone lands on a finish space they win!

I decided to make some changes :) I can't help it I always have to make some kind of change! I thought the boys would love the car theme but the first time we played (the game at that time was just the spaces mapped out in pencil but they couldn't wait any longer to play!) the first thing I found for counters was a bag of rubber frogs... doesn't everybody have rubber frogs layin' around??? so we used those and that's when we decided that a swamp them would be really fun (btw it would have been more irregular if I would have thought of the swamp to begin with and since I had it all mapped out  and that ws the hard part I wasn't starting over!) I also decided that we didn't  need more than one start but I did keep the 4 finishes from there I added some other fun things...

Log Bridge

Turtle Crossing go back 2 spaces

Stepping stones and slither ahead 2 spaces!

So I still have to make cards Riley multiplication and division, Trevor addition and subtraction and Tyler and Calyse will have cards with dots to count and then move that many spaces-oh and I colored the spaces in groups of 5 so if Riley had 5x7 he wouldn't have to count out 35 (or whatever number) spaces he could count by 5's to make it quicker! (right now we are just using dice the older boys roll two dice together and x or + and the littles roll one and go that many)

I also thought we could use this game for spelling I'd say the word and they would spell it if they got it right they could as many spaces as there are letters in that word

  Leave a comment if you need more info!

7:40 PM - Jan. 6, 2008 - post comment

Hi.

I loved your blog. You seem to have a pretty good system with your little ones. Your crafty ideas really inspired me. I also have 3 boys and we are expecting our 4th child now. Hopefully a girl. We are also in Michigan too.

3bugs - 8:33 PM - Jan. 6, 2008

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thanks

Thanks for the apron link. Also, cute game. We used to make games like that all the time and my kids would have a blast. We finally made sort of a permanent board and laminated it, then the kids could add with vis a vis markers what they wanted for that particular game.

Danika - 12:43 PM - Jan. 7, 2008

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Oh using the markers to able to make changes in the game is a great idea!

Thanks!

wiegersmama - 5:22 AM - Jan. 8, 2008

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As usual...YOU ROCK! I bet the kids love this! I bet your mind is spinning with more ideas...

Your Pal, Michele

Anonymous - 8:03 AM - Jan. 8, 2008

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