BOARD GAME MANIA!

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we turned our whole gym into a GIANT board game. 

We used pieces of colorful paper to cut out squares.  The squares formed a path from one end of the gym to the next. We wrote special commands on some of the squares: “roll again”, “lose a turn”, “move two spaces forward”, etc.  Poster sheets were used to create huge trivia and activity cards, while a cardboard box was covered in construction paper to look like dice. 

Kids were used as the “pieces” and placed in teams to walk on the "board." 

The trivia cards incorporated questions about Martin Luther King Jr. and African American History. 

The activity cards consisted of challenges that incorporated teamwork, for instance:  keeping a bunch of balloons in the air for a minute;

challenging a staff member to jump rope contest (that's me!);  

or getting every single person on your team to score a basket with a football in under a minute.

Here is the winning team!