Dots and Boxes Game

 Age Range: 6-11

Equipment needed: A4 sheet of squared paper and two pencils or two different coloured felt tip pens of your choice

Dots and Boxes Game

 

On this blog post, I will be showing a simple but fun 2 player game where the aim is to have the most points. This game only requires 2 items to play and I will be showing a step by step description on how to play the dots and boxes game.

 

To play the dots and boxes game:

 

Start by drawing a grid of dots on your squared piece of paper. You can make the grid of any size but i chose to do a 4x4 grid to show you.

Each player will take it in turns to draw either a vertical or horizontal line on two unmarked dots. As you can see from the image below, player 1 has drawn a pink line. Now it's player 2's turn.

Player 2 has now added a blue line on two unmarked dots.

Player 1 will then take their turn adding another line

 

Back to player 2 to add another line

 

As the game continues, both players will be adding lines on the grid similar to the image below

 

The aim of this game is to try and join the fourth side of a 1x1 box

 

Player 1 has now joined the fourth side of a 1x1 box

 

Due to player 1 now joining the fourth side of the box, they will get a point and will put a 'P' in that box to record the point.

 

Player 1 will now take another turn for winning the last point and they are again able to complete the fourth side of the box and get another point.

 

The game continues and now player 2 has been able to complete the fourth side of a box and gets a point and now as you can see have placed a 'B' to record the point.

 

The game keeps continuing with both players adding lines. Player 1 then adds another point for getting a box.

 

The game ends when no more lines can be placed for both players

 

The player is the person who has the most points

 

The winner in this game is player 1 who has 6 completed boxes compared to player 2's 3

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Sock Toss

 Age Range: 5-11

Equipment needed: Pairs of socks and a basket

Sock Toss

 

Have you ever found you have lots of socks lying around in your room and need to put them away? 

Well you can with this sock toss game which makes putting your socks away more fun

 All you need are a basket and then a collection of balled up socks and then you can practice your aim and hand/eye coordination by tossing the socks into your basket

To play sock toss:

 

Start by placing your basket on the floor in a good area where you can throw socks into. Bundle up your socks together as well into a ball.

 Take a couple of steps back from your basket and get ready to throw your ball of socks

Once your ready, try to throw your socks so that it lands into the basket

 

Use your remaining socks to land them into the basket

 

To progress this game:

 

You could use your left hand

Use a blindfold

Throw with the basket behind you

Feel free to play this game however you would like to and come up with your own progressions if you want to when playing this game

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Indoor Bowling

 Age Range: 6-11

Equipment: 6 bottles, 1 ball

Indoor Bowling

In this post, you will find a step by step guide on how to make and play your own indoor bowling game

 

To play this game:

 

You first will need to arrange your bottles into a pyramid similar to the image below

 

 

To do this, place three bottles first each in a line with a 1 inch bag in between each of them

 

Next, place another 2 bottles in front of the current 3

 

Finally, place 1 more bottle ahead of the 2 bottles you have just placed

 

With your bottles all placed, all you need to do now is take a couple of steps back, and roll your ball so that it can knock down as many bottles as possible

 

To progress this game:

• You could use a smaller ball
• Try using bigger plastic bottles
• Play this game outside 
• Go more steps back from the target to test your rolling ability
  

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Go Shovel the Snow Xmas Game

 Age 3-11

Equipment needed: 10 pulled apart cotton balls, 1 heavy bowl/plate, 1 bowl (doesn't have to be heavy) and a spoon

Mini-marshmallows are an easy alternative for this game as cotton balls tend to stick together when playing

Go Shovel the Snow Xmas Game

 If you love Christmas, well get excited, because I've got a challenging but fun indoor game for you guys to try. For this simple indoor game, you can shovel snow with out going outside. This game is simple enough for kids but yet very challenging for adults to play.

You require only a couple of items to play this game as shown by the image below.

To play the game:

Start with your cotton balls or marshmallows on your plate and place the handle of your spoon in your mouth. 

 

Try and scoop up the cotton balls onto your spoon

Once scooped up, aim to place them into your bowl. Do this for all your remaining cotton balls or marshmallows.

With this game, you'll tend to find it becomes more difficult with the remaining cotton balls left. It can also be much tougher as well if the cotton balls fall off the plate. Keep trying and you'll be able to scoop all of the snow up!!

How to progress......

• Use a smaller spoon
• Set a time limit of 1 minute to see how many you can get 
• Using smaller cotton balls
• Challenge your family and your friends to see how many they can get
• Try this game blindfolded
  

 

Watch Go Shovel the Snow Xmas Game video:

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Sticky Note Wall Bop

Age Range: 5-11

 

Equipment needed: 26 Sticky notes, pen or pencil, soft ball and a door or wall to stick your sticky notes on

Sticky Note Wall Bop

 

On this post, I will explain how to play sticky note wall bop which is a fun game and can help with your creativeness, problem solving, throwing accuracy and spelling.

For this game, you will need 26 sticky notes, pen or pencil, a soft ball and a door or wall to stick your sticky notes on. 

 

To get started, you are going to write all the letters of the alphabet on your sticky notes and stick them to your wall or door. Ensure there is enough space in between each letter as well as having different letters placed with each other to make the game harder. 

Once your ready to play.....

        Pick a word to spell out. With this word, you are aiming to spell it by throwing your ball at the individual sticky note one letter at a time.

So take a few steps back from your wall/door and see how you get on!

 

 

How to progress....

• Take further steps back from the wall/door to test your throwing accuracy
  
• Spell bigger and complex words
• If you were to incorrectly throw at one letter or miss the letter, then you would have to spell the word again
  
• Eliminate the consonants and keep the vowels game -  In this game, you create a word from the letters you have. For example with the word 'DANNY', you would spell the word and remove the D, N and Y from the game as these are consonants. With the remaining letters, you make a word until there are no consonants left and all 5 vowels remaining. This progression helps with creativeness and problem solving where by you thinking of a word with the letters you have left.
  

 

Watch the Sticky Note Wall Bop game video:

 

 

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