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Homemade File Folder Games
Jun. 10, 2008 • 10:55 PM
I made these learning game boards awhile back. They are simple to do and a great way for the kids to have fun together while practicing their school lessons.
We will be doing these throughout the summer to keep "feeding our brains"!
Here are a few basic boards with specific themed spaces. For these I used the round colored stickers (often used for yard sale pricing) and other stickers within the theme I wanted to do.
Here is the bug board:
If you land on a bug and answer the question correctly you get an extra point. If you land on the red "Ouch" circles, you've been bitten and you lose a turn.
Here is a Mickey & Minnie Mouse themed board:
Here is a different board idea:
It is a travel theme. It has a slide pattern. It reinforces the concept of how you read from left to right then come back and again go left to right.
A few more things you need: Player pieces and dice
The player pieces can be almost anything. I often try to have some themed ones as well. The kids like to choose their character. The pink sea animals are hard plastic and came from the Dollar Store. (I got three whole sets of characters for $1.00. The top animals are pencil toppers. You can also use shaped erasers or small toys that sit/ stand well on their own.
Then we keep everything in here (a plastic file folder tub): including the question cards!
I keep Brain Quest Questions (at various grade levels) with our games. We got all these inexpensively at yard sales & thrift stores. (One or two were gifts). These are great because all children can play at their level. Whichever set of questions is at their levels, these are the questions asked to them. You could also make up your own question cards per child. I can also make up questions from a unit we just studied for the children to review things in a fun way! I usually make up two different colored cards. One color is for the older children while the other color is set for the younger children. (you could use a specific color card per child) to tailor questions just for that child.
Try making some at home with your children. They are great reviews for the summer months especially when your children get bored and want something different to do.
If you make some and post about them, let me know! I'd love to see them and will stop by (your blog) for a visit!
Here is one more game: This is one they really like!
I again used the slide pattern for moving the player's pieces. I thought it appropriate since this reinforces some parts of speech in sentences/ reading.
Using stickers, just randomly run letter stickers in rows. At the end of each row, draw a line with rounded corners taking you back to the left again to start another row of letters. (This line is easy to make using a ruler, then just round the edges.)
Then make up about 10-15 of each card: noun, adjective, and verb. (You could use others if you wish)
The player rolls the dice and moves their piece that many spaces. Then picks a card (That are shuffled and plced face down on the table nearby). Whatever the card says they must come up with a word that starts with the letter they are on and is also what the card says. For example: if you would get the letter F and pick the adjective card, you could say "Fun"!
Have a Fun summer everyone!
Our lessons are lighter but the learning never ends!
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Jun. 10, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by http://fourlittlepenguins.blogspot.com
Good idea! I made some counting game boards awhile back, but I never thought about a question/answer format. I guess we will be pulling them out and using them again in a whole new way! Thanks for sharing.
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Jun. 11, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by 4sweetums
I love the idea of making the games the size of file folders. I made some reading games on poster board but they take up alot of room. What a great idea.
Blessings,
Dawn
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Jun. 11, 2008 - Love it!!!
Posted by bitsandpieces
Oh I LOVE this!!!! Thanks for sharing the many details about this, it's amaazing!!
:) Carisa
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Jun. 11, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by westward
Brilliant! Now, if only I had time to make some. ;) I'll file this away for one of those days when I DO have time! Thanks!!
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Jun. 12, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by CrossView
Very creative! =D
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