Lifesize Monopoly at Brownsburg Public Library The next time you play a game using a game board, do something totally different, try d...
We all know that engaging students is important. But do you ever struggle with unique ways to engage your students? I know I do. One night, while laying in bed, I came up with a fun idea for teaching certain concepts. Life-Size Game Boards. Pretty cool huh? To make this happen, you will need to do a little prep. However, it will be very worth it! 1. Make sure you have large dice, cups and the board game tiles. (I linked my affiliate links for these if you need them!) 2. Print the clip art people, laminate and cut them out. Using binder clips, clip them to the cups. 3. Lay out the game board tiles in any formation that looks like a game board. 4. Print, cut and laminate the question cards. 5. Use masking tape or packing tape, tape the cards to the tiles. 6. Edit the vocabulary cards (the students will draw a word'from the pile each turn) to match the vocabulary words you need. 7. Students will roll ONE die, draw a card, and do the task on the board. If the student lands on a blank square, have them choose any task on the board to do. If the student gets it correct, they stay on the board. If the student misses, they go back to the beginning! First student to the end wins! I have done this game before, just not on a life-size game board until now! I just love it! This particular game is for vocabulary. You can add any vocabulary words you need your students to master. The vocabulary cards (not the game squares) are editable. I will also be adding more games like character traits, text features, and more! I cannot wait to see pictures of your students using these as well! If you would like this for your classroom, you can grab a copy in my TpT Shop. I also have a Character Traits version posted as well, and a Growing Bundle! Let me know how this works for you!
It's time to get outside and play! Learn how to make your very own live Angry Birds game. It's bound to be a summer hit!
Fill your yard with fun games and forts for the whole family to enjoy.
Everyone's favorite board games get a whole lot more fun when they're super-sized. (Also: the pieces are harder to lose.) We've gathered up a collection of jumbo variations on classic board games—if you think we've missed a good one, let us know in the co
By Diane Gilleland Why gather around a table to play board games when you can play them all over the house? Scrounge up a few inexpensive materials,
I cannot claim the genius of this idea, those props have to go to Amy at her blog, The Show Me Librarian. Last fall we offered Life-Size Candyland and Clue at our library and the kids had a blast. If you’re thinking about adding this type of programming, Chutes & Ladders was by far the easiest of the three. For Life-Size Chutes & Ladders I used masking tape (a lot of masking tape), cardstock in bright colors, and yarn. We also created some really neat spinners using old DVDs and DVD cases (of which we have plenty). We ended up with a really small number of kids, but the kids who played had an awesome time. We made a board of about 50 squares with five ladders and five chutes and the kids lived for those ladders and were so upset when they had to slide down the chutes. Each child got a spinner and as they came in, I gave them a nametag with their name and a number to help me know what order the kids were in. We had only about eight kids, if you have any more, I would suggest starting simultaneous games so the kids wouldn’t have to wait too long for their turn. Having the individual spinners, definitely sped up the process between the kids’ turns which makes everyone much happier.
This month we are focusing on integrating science into our studies. It always seems like there is more work to do than there are hours in the day and sometimes science gets pushed on the back burner. This Butterfly Life Cycle Game is a fun way to work science into the day!
Looking for a fun way to pass the time? Try Life-Size Candyland, a simple board game that even the youngest kids can play!
Giant game day! Human Battleship: have people sit in two grids, put a tarp between the two grids, each person gets a chance to throw a water balloon over the tarp. Other giant games could include Hungry Hungry Hippos with laundry bin, balls and carts; human chess; and marbles.
In 2016, I started seeing some posts about Life Size Pac-Man on some librarian groups on Facebook. I'm always up for a new life size game idea and this one looked easy to do. I did a little more research via those Facebook groups and Pinterest and then planned my first Life Size Pac-Man Event. I originally used Mega Blocks for both the Pac-Dots and the power pellets. I decided they didn't work well and have since used cut up pool noodles for Pac-Dots and Mega Blocks for the power pellets only. Game play varies every time I host it. Given the size of the room I use, we only have three ghosts instead of four. As we play, the first ghost becomes Pac-Man after the first player dies and so on. Sources of Inspiration: Casey at Teen Services Underground Blog The Jolly Rogers Young Women Blog Instructables Youth Group Collective The Meta Picture If You Loved... Kim Edsell on the Storytime Underground Facebook Group Tales from the Nerdy Teen Services Underground Facebook Group Colleen LeComte Sandy George Angela Krajcar Kimberley McSpadden Jennifer Billingsley
We did a Life Size Candyland event in December at our Oakland and Leesburg branches, and it was SO FUN! Before I go any further I have to mention that these events would not have been possible wit…
It's time to get outside and play! Learn how to make your very own live Angry Birds game. It's bound to be a summer hit!
A fun and fairly easy program to put together, Life-Size Clue was a hit with our middle school audience and something we'll repeat in the future!
To catch up see Part One , Part Two , or Part Three . When we last left off, the visual elements of the Operation board were done. Now...
Shortcuts and ideas for events that will add to the fun and make things simpler.
This Human Body BUNDLE combines two of my popular human body resources: the Human Body Systems Lapbook and the bestselling Life-Size, Lift-the-Flap, Human Body Model! Please click HERE and HERE for previews, photos, and details on the two resources included, and to read their ★ 2,200+ 4-star reviews ★! •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Several Common Core Standards can be addressed with these projects, including: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.A Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.B Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2.D Provide a concluding statement or section. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic. Though reading standards are not specifically addressed in this project, the opportunity exists to address several Common Core Reading: Informational Text >> Grade 3 standards. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• More Popular Lapbook Resources for Structured Writing: BIOGRAPHY Lapbook ANIMALS Lapbook BIOMES Lapbook STATE REPORTS Lapbook HUMAN BODY Lapbook ALL ABOUT ME Lapbook END OF THE YEAR Lapbook ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Get your students moving with active review games. Tons of fun ideas to review the standards while having fun in the classroom.
My baby is now 5 years old! I can't believe it. In fact, I don't want to let myself believe it. I miss the little baby I once held. Zechariah is one of my greatest blessings from God. I cannot put into words how much this little boy means to me. We had beautiful weather for Zech's party. It was a perfect day to celebrate! I wanted to keep things really simple, so there wasn't much planned for the party. Zechariah invited all his friends over to play his favorite board game, Trouble. The twist on it, I made it life-size. I thought he would have more fun if we played outside and used people as the pieces. It was so much fun! I honestly thought the kids were going to get bored and I was going to end up disappointed with how little we used the game. I was very wrong. We played the game for over an hour and made sure to "help" a team end the game for us. Otherwise the game would have gone on for much longer. Most of the preparation for the party was making the game board. It really was easy to make, however, very time consuming. The painting took me somewhere between 25-30 hours. It wasn't hard. It just took forever to paint because the fabric soaks up all the paint not allowing you to spread the paint much. I started by shopping at Goodwill for some used white sheets. I love that store! I bought 4 flat sheets of various sizes for $6 total. The whites were similar, but not exactly the same. I knew once it was painted, the color of white wouldn't matter. I sewed all four sheets together into a giant 12 foot by 12 foot square. Once it was sewn, I took it outside to draw the game board. The board was too large to lay out flat in any room of my house. I used our 1986 version of the game to copy. It's what Zech is familiar with, and I wanted him to recognize it when we played. The large circle in the middle of the game, I used a hula hoop to trace. The smaller circles that the people pieces stand on were a plastic lid to a giant bowl of mine. The game is primarily circles and straight lines. This made it very easy to duplicate. Once the game was drawn, and my lines were taped with painters tape, I brought the game down to my basement. I put a vinyl tablecloth underneath to protect my floor and took it one color at a time. For the paint, I used the small craft bottles of acrylic paint from Wal-Mart. The bottles were 50 cents apiece, and I needed 3 for each color. The game was a total of $12. Not bad! The only other thing I needed to buy was the giant inflatable dice. I found some online for $10. It was a very inexpensive birthday party. I had found some of these life-size games online for purchase but they started at $90!!! I knew I wanted to make it myself. It was much cheaper, but the labor was very extensive. To secure the game board down to the ground, I applied large eyelets around the edge of the game board. I then purchased golf tees to use as stakes. It worked really well! I didn't want the game board to be getting twisted beneath our feet and this solved the problem. On our invitations we sent out, we assigned each person to a team color. I had picked out two kids for each team, and then split up the adults that were also invited to the party. Each person was supposed to wear a shirt of their team color. It made it really easy to tell apart the players on the board at any given time. If I use the game again, I might buy different color bandanas for the players to wear. I think the most fun part of the game for the kids was throwing the giant die. They would send it flying high in the sky, and then everyone kept continually bumping it with their heads and body. Towards the end we had to restrict the kids from touching it unless it was their team rolling the die. It made it unfair for kids to bump the die when the rolling team had originally gotten a high number. The green team won! They were also the first team to get anyone home. For the winning team I found some really inexpensive Popper Magic games, AKA Trouble. They were at Wal-Mart for only $2.50. The rest of the kids at the party were given a sack of candy and a couple card games. My mom did an amazing job on Zech's cake. It looks just like the board game! She even made a flag out of the birthday invitation. It says, "Zech's been caught turning 5. He's in TROUBLE!" I was so happy that the trick candles worked this time. When we used them on Zech's real birthday not a single one would relight. This time they did it several times and got a good laugh from Zech. For fun, we made sure to pass out the cake color that matched their team color. It was fun to see everyone match their food so well. We also had the table full of small games for the kids to play while they ate. There was Old Maid, Pick-Up-Sticks, Blink, and Rock-Paper-Scissors. It was such a fun time spent with friends and family. I don't think there's a thing I would have changed about the entire party. It was the perfect afternoon. I hope it makes a lasting memory for Zechariah. He's five years old now!!
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Our Bishop just held his annual life-size foosball game for all the ym and yw. I love this activity because it involves everyone. We divide them into 2 teams--mix 'em all up. Adult leaders are on the side-lines keeping the ball in play and making sure they do not use their hands. Line up just like a foosball table, alternating direction and team. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 They hold onto pvc pipe that varies in size. The hands are not allowed to let go of the pipe and cannot be used to swat the ball...only feet. The middle rows are 4 kids across--facing each other. With this closer contact, may I suggest a beach ball. The next line-up is 3 across and they are trying to score. The next row are the defenders, 2 across. The goalie just has to hold their own pipe but they cannot use it to defend, just feet. While some were waiting for their turn to play we had an oversized game of twister going.
I'm getting excited about this year's theme. Part of it has to do with life size games that I want to attempt as programs. I hosted a liv...
Passionate about the medieval fantasy world, I started making medieval-style banners in the colors of "The Witcher". The fabrics used are upholstery velvet for a perfect fit, and the back is 100/100 cotton. Ideal for living room decoration, headboard, playroom or other. You can also use them for your LARP/larp games. Let your imagination speak! Product dimensions: 60 x 120 cm I also make personalized standards. The pole is not sold, it simply serves as a presentation support.
Life-sized board games are all the rage right now. Not long ago I got to try my hand at it when we did a Live Clue program for teens. Unfortunately, I can't take credit for developing this program. That credit belongs to my predecessor, who is now working in another department at the library. But she did such a good job with this program that we had lots of requests to do it again this year. Fortunately, my predecessor was willing to help out with the program and show me how it's supposed to work. At its most basic, the Live Clue event is a lot like playing the classic board game. Players divided themselves into groups of no more than six. Everyone in each group is dealt cards from the deck which represent the rooms, suspects, and weapons. The players must make suggestions to uncover clues. The idea is to use the process of elimination to figure out exactly who committed the murder, what weapon was used, and in what room the murder took place. What makes this program special is that instead of moving small plastic pieces around the board, the players all take on the persona of one of the characters and physically move from room to room in the library to make their suggestions. Since we were using different areas of the library as the "rooms" for this game, my co-worker also re-wrote the game's back story, which we read to the group before beginning play, to give it an appropriate library setting. The story reads as follows: Each of the Clue characters has a secret: They’re very bad at returning library books on time. The Library Director has invited these six people to the library to discuss their long overdue books. Unbeknownst to her, each person would rather commit murder than return their books and has snuck a weapon into the library. Although everyone had murder on the brain, only one of them actually succeeded in killing the Library Director. Tonight you will become one of the Library Delinquents and it’s your job to find out who committed the crime, what weapon they used, and in what part of the library the murder occurred. Everyone’s a suspect, even you…… To set the mood, teen volunteers used decorations like caution tape, masking tape body outlines, and plastic "weapons" all around the library. A few participants also came in dressed as Clue characters, FBI agents, detectives, and the like. Since we wanted to make use of the entire library for this program, it made sense to do Live Clue as an after-hours event so that we weren't disturbing other library patrons. We held the program on a Friday because the library closes at 5:00 on that day. This way "after-hours" did not equate to "really late at night." The teens gathered at the library for pizza and to hear a brief explanation of the rules a half hour before the library closed. Once the doors were locked the teens divided themselves into groups of six and headed into the library to start trying to solve the case. We played for one hour with a hard cut-off time, and this amount of time was just about perfect for most groups to solve their case. One group actually had time to start, but not finish, a second case. Twelve teens were in attendance for this program, which actually was a very good number. You can have as many as six people in each group (one for each of the six murder suspects) and it's more fun if the groups are larger, so it was wonderful that we could have two full groups. I did require registration for this program so that I would know how much pizza to buy and how many volunteers I would need. Three adult or older teen volunteers helped out with this program. Each volunteer acted as a group leader and was in charge of coordinating a group of six teens, leading them around the library as they made their suggestions, and keeping everyone focused on the game. With all of the walking around it could be a little bit tricky to keep player order straight, so it was the group leader's job to focus on turn order and further explain the rules if anyone had questions. Since I had at least one volunteer with each group, this left me with the ability to float between the groups and help out as needed, plus it gave me the chance to interact with everyone instead of being tied to a small selection of the teens in attendance. What kind of work went into creating this program? It actually wasn't much work for me since this program had been done before and we already had most of the things we needed from past Live Clue events. My predecessor, however, must have put in a bit of time to get things ready when she first began doing this program. She had made all of the cards needed to represent the rooms, people, and weapons using Publisher, and then had then all printed and laminated. She also created "case folders" for each player. The case folders were color coded to correspond with the character that each player had chosen. Inside the folder was a rules sheet that included the back story and a slip that players to use to mark the clues they had seen. The good thing is that once these pieces were made, they were totally reusable. All I had to do was print new clue sheets to restock the case folders, sort the clue cards and, of course, coordinate registration and the volunteers. Expenses for this program were minimal, limited only to pizza and a few rolls of caution tape for decoration. The hardest part of this program was getting everyone to understand the rules. I highly suggest playing the board game yourself before doing the Live version so that you understand exactly how making a suggestion and uncovering clues works. Honestly, this part of the game is something that's tricky to explain concisely and it makes the most sense after you just do it a few times. Be sure that your volunteers are also very well-trained and are experts on making suggestions as well, since they're the ones who will have to do most of the explaining to the teens. The single hardest part of this program was keeping some of the younger teens focused and following the rules correctly. Not a problem for most of the participants, but a couple of them were easily distracted which lead to some overall confusion for the group. Generally, though, everyone stayed on task with some firm guidance from the group leaders.
A fun and fairly easy program to put together, Life-Size Clue was a hit with our middle school audience and something we'll repeat in the future!
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A few years back I put together a life-sized Candy Land game for an Easter event. I am going to be honest, this was not an easy project, but once it was finished it was great. The kids loved it, the parents loved it, and we’ll have it for years to come. In this post, […]
Introduction · Introduce Life Size Candyland Activity Description · Since it's debut, Candyland has been a favorite game with both kids and adults alike. For a memorable game of giant proportions, have the kids become the game pieces in a life size version of the classic board game. Activity · Gingerbread Tree o Rainbow Trail · Peppermint Forest · Gumdrop Mountains o Gumdrop Pass · Licorice Forest · Peanut Acres · Lollipop Woods · Snow Flake Lake · Chocolate Swamp · Candy Castle
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Giant Lite Brite: I made a Giant Lite Brite for Instructables that has over 1,100 self healing holes and hundreds of multi-colored pegs that go inside and light up. It's an improved upon version of the original toy, at super-human size! Create any picture you can i…
I have seen so many great ideas for review games out there. I thought I would compile a list of my favorites to have as a resource. I fig...
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Now the weather is getting warmer it is a great time to take that fun outside, which is why I LOVE these fun Giant Board Games!
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This free printable David and Goliath Preschool lesson is based on 1 Samuel 17:1-50. It includes activities, worksheets, games, coloring pages crafts and more.
