Game Kit: A Great Little Product and a Lot of Fun

I cannot remember how long this sat on our shelf.

At least a year.

Likely more.

I actually won a little box of treasures once on a blog giveaway so long ago that I cannot even remember what blog it was.

It was a literal treasure box of items though. Bare books (our first introduction and now a staple to our homeschool supplies), wax crayons, a blank puzzle.

And this.

A blank do-it-yourself board game kit.

A game kit complete with a blank board, a spinning wheel, blank cards, play money, dice – you name it.

Upon a school room rearrange I unearthed the game kit hiding away and decided I would save it for the end of this school year.

We created a Laura Ingalls Wilder Adventure Game.  (Of course that was our theme!)

We created Good Luck cards and a coordinating stack of Uh-Oh cards.

We made rules – such as …. if you’re wearing red, you go first.

We had a lovely morning of drawing the board and the details of the game.

It was a great little ending activity to our year long study.

You know – I won the prize set so long ago that I hadn’t given cost any consideration.  While typing this post I just re-vsited the website and cannot believe what a great deal these blank games are!  They are worth the price for certain!

I will definitely make this kit a routine idea for concluding major assignments.  The possibilities are really endless – geography game, one particular novel game, science game, animals game.

The options that come with the game kit are almost too many – spinning wheel, dice and hour glass.  The kids wanted to use every aspect of the game but in the end we couldn’t figure out a way to include the hour glass sand timer so it didn’t make the cut.

The game must be a success.  I found Mosely and PIper playing the game of their own free will yesterday.

And, of course, it serves as a pretty sweet memento of our Prairie Primer year together.