Games

How many numbers can you roll?• Roll the dice. What totals can

you make?

• What rules will you decide for rolling the dice?

• Stack the dice

• What totals are on the top or hidden at the bottom?

• Stand your dice on a mirror, what can you see now?

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Design a track game with simple rules.

Design a round the track game with simple rules.

Start

Finish

Talk through the rules

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Design a track game with added game features .

Finish

Miss a go Move ahead

Go backRoll again

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Add a theme

Start

Finish

Collect a token Pick up a card

Choose a character Collect

money

Making track games from stories

• Choose a story with a simple journey sequence:

• Stick Man, The Gruffalo, Chicken Licken, Handa’s Surprise, Suddenly (Preston Pig), Jack and the Beanstalk, other traditional tales)

• Set out the cards and include a card when the main character meets on of the others. Consider a reward or forfeit depending on who is on the card

Start

Meet

Start(Throw a six)

Take Daisy the cow to

market

Daisy runs offMove back 3

places

Meet man with 5 beansMove on three

Swap cow for beans

Return home

Mother throws bean out of the

windowMiss a go

Sent to bed earlyMiss a go

Beanstalk grows

Climb beanstalk Move on 2

Beanstalk grows

Beanstalk grows

Arrive at Giant’s castle

Hide from Giant

Miss a go

More advanced track games

• Consider track games where there is an element of other routes or a race

• Little Red Riding Hood – the wolf and Red Riding Hood’s route to Granny’s cottage.

• Think about the number of steps that need to be taken to reach the destination.

Wolf

More advanced track games• Consider ways of choosing the route e.g. throw a particular number /

answer a question correctly , take a ‘chance’ card which gives instructions

• Add in forfeit / reward cards to control the movement through the game.

Wolf cardWolf card

Card Games

• Make sets of ‘Happy Family’ cards using characters from stories.

• Draw and scan drawn images, repeat 4 times and print.

• Play pairs/ Pelmanism card games

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• Think about the rules

• How will players move up or down the grid

• Vary the size of the grid

• Theme the grid around a book

Boards

Boards

Grid games

• Think about the rules

• How will players move up or down the grid

• Vary the size of the grid

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Other ideas - Rules

• Decide a clear set of rules for the game

• Consider:

• The object of the game

• How to win

• How to take turns and progress through the game

Movement rules for chess

Other ideas

Playing Pieces

• Make playing pieces for your game

• You could make:

• Cardboard cut out playing pieces

• Playdough characters or shapes / Fimo –heat in an oven to make it hard

How might particular pieces move on a board game?

Alien playing pieces – What’s the game?

Think about:

• What type of game it will be

• Where the game will be set

• The objective

• What the playing board will look like

• The narrative that will drive the game

Other ideas

Box Design

• Consider different box shapes

• Deconstruct cereal boxes to see how they are made (look for the glued edge to be able to open out the complete box net)

• Design the shape of the box –use a range of nets to decide on the shape

• Make a lid for the box (Will it hinge off the main net or be a separate open net shape?)

Other ideas

• Dominoes

• Card games: number bonds, times tables

• Different dice

• Card sort games