How to Make Simple Games

Simple Board Game

• 1

  Place the cardboard on your work table. Draw a line in the shape of a large S on the cardboard, using a marker.

• 2

  Glue the colored squares, end to end, along the entire line, using the glue stick. Alternate different colored squares as you go.

• 3

  Glue the star at one end of the line and the treasure chest at the other end.

• 4

  Allow each player to choose a button as a game piece to move along the colored squares.

• 5

  Roll the dice to determine how many colored spaces a player can move their button, starting at the star and moving toward the treasure chest. The first one to reach the treasure chest without going past it wins the game.

Teaspoon Pass-Along

• 6

  Instruct the players to sit in a circle around a table. Have each player close their eyes and choose a teaspoon and hold it in one hand.

• 7

  The player who chooses the spoon with the X starts the game by scooping up the marble from the bowl with his teaspoon, and then passing the marble to the teaspoon of the player on his right.

• 8

  Players keep passing the marble to the right. A player who drops the marble is eliminated.

• 9

  Keep passing the marble until only one person is left in the game. The last person left wins the game.

Simple Memory Game

• 10

  Draw a circle in the center of two index cards, and draw a square in the center of two index cards, using a green marker.

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  Draw the number "2" in the center of two index cards, and draw the number "5" in the center of two index cards, using a blue marker.

• 12

  Draw the letter "C" on two index cards, and draw the letter "G" on two index cards, using a purple marker.

• 13

  Mix up the index cards. Place all the index cards face down on the table.

• 14

  Go around the table, and have each player choose a card and keep it. Go around the table again and have each player choose another card. Have the player put the card back if it doesn't match. Have the player keep the card if it matches. When a player matches a card, she also gets to keep the next card she chooses when it is her turn to choose again.

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  Continue to choose cards until one player has the most matching cards. The player with the most matching cards at the end of the game is declared the winner.