Birds, Birds, Birds
This fun board game reviews the information learned during our unit study.
Making a board game with questions cards is a fun way to drill, review and test the information learned during any unit study. Here is the game we made after a unit study on birds when the children were quite young.
To Make:
The pictures were cut from various bird books and glued to the green file folder. Using white 3/4" circle stickers we created a path leading from the yellow bird to its nest. The game board was then covered with the usual clear Contact paper to protect the pictures and stickers.
The Cards:
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We used colored index cards for our question cards. You will note that we have pictures on most of our cards for this game. We created the game together as a project, writing questions as we discovered new information that we thought was important. We also included many pictures of birds to name as we wanted to learn to identify more kinds. We wrote the answers to the questions on the reverse side of the cards. The cards were then covered with clear Contact paper to protect the pictures and make the cards more durable. You will note that pen we used to write the questions has reacted with the Contact paper. This happened over a long period of time. This game is about 14 years old. It was one of our first board games. |
To Play:
The cards are shuffled and placed face up as a draw pile.
In turn, a player reads (or has read to him) the top card in the draw pile. If he is able to answer the question or identify the bird, he shakes a die and moves his marker that number of spaces. The first player to reach the nest is the winner.
NOTE:
We made similar games for most of the units that we have studied over the years. It is always fun to go back to a game like this and see if we still remember the information after all these years. I wonder if the children will try it with me later today. Cortney is now 20 and Kyle is 17. They will probably remember the information better than I do.
Hope your family has as much fun making and playing this type of game as we have had over the years.
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