Life Sized Board Game Instructions - Rotation



Life Sized Board Game Instructions

Designed by Jaymie Derden, State Street UMC - Bristol, VA

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Materials needed:

12’ X15’canvas painter’s tarps (2) available from most home supply stores – we obtained ours from Home Depot for about $30 each.

Latex paint 1 quart each of a variety of colors as desired

Brushes

Chalk – pastel sidewalk chalk works well

Permanent marker

Plastic or thick paper to protect floor from paint seep-through

Time to complete: about 8 –10 hours (although I was figuring this out as I went along – you can probably do it faster with these great instructions!)

(Finished size 24 feet by 15 feet)

Directions:

1. Lay out the painter’s tarps on the floor side by side. If the seams are puckered (ours were), trim off the seamed edges.

2. Sew the edges of the tarps together to make one large tarp. We sewed together the two 12 foot edges to make one large tarp that is 15 feet by 24 feet. Depending on space, you can use just one tarp or sew additional tarps together.

3. Sewing the tarps together was by far the most difficult part of the project. It gets easier from here!

4. Sketch a game board design (a wavy path) on a piece of paper to determine the approximate look of your game board. Look at ready-made games to get ideas. If you want to be precise, you can use graph paper and draw it to scale, but I just eye-balled it. Determine how many game spaces you will have.

5. Place plastic or thick paper underneath the tarp before painting. The paint will seep through the canvas onto the floor beneath – (ask me how I know this…)

6. Use pale sidewalk chalk to sketch out your game path onto the canvas tarps. First draw one line that will be in the center of the path. Then take a yardstick (or other measuring tool) that is about the width you want your path to be and center it on the line you have drawn. Draw both edges of the path moving and turning the yardstick as a guide to keep the path an even width. Continue around the tarp, twisting and turning to make the path curvy and interesting.

7. Divide the path into the number of game spaces you have determined. Make the spaces large enough so that several children can stand on one space. (This adds to the fun of the game!) Ours were about 15-18 inches deep. At the curves they will be wider on the outside edge and more narrow at the inner curve.

8. If you want to add special spaces (we used question marks, cross and dynamite spaces) space these evenly along the path. We left a few spaces blank. (We make up a set of questions and situations that pertain to our lesson for these three special spaces. Question spaces mean children must answer a question pertaining to the story, cross spaces mean they receive a life application situation to which they have responded in a positive manner – they get to go ahead 1-2 spaces, and dynamite spaces mean they receive a life application situation where they have made a poor choice – they go back 1-2 spaces.)

9. You can also make “shortcuts” by painting arrows that allow kids to skip over several spaces if they answer a question correctly. Our game board includes two shortcuts that allow kids to bypass several spaces at a curvy area.

10. Stand back and look at your chalked in game board. If you are satisfied with it, use a permanent marker to outline the outer edges of the path and the spaces.

11. Begin painting your game path using the latex paint. We used two coats of most colors, the yellow paint actually took three coats to get good coverage.

12. Once the painted path is dry, outline the entire path and the individual spaces with black paint.

13. Last paint the cross, dynamite and question mark symbols on the designated spaces.

14. Paint a title, start and finish space as desired.

15. We store our game board on a 15-foot empty carpet roll we obtained from a carpet store. Just roll it up and push to the edge of the room.

16. Enjoy!

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