Use Trail Games to Motivate
Many young children enjoy trail games. You know the type-start at the first space, roll the dice or spin the spinner and move a few spots. Sometimes there is a message on the space with directions like ‘go ahead one’ or ‘go back to start.’ These types of games are easy to make and adapt to whatever academic skill your child needs to practice!
Make a trail game board inside of a file folder for easy storage. Draw the path, divide it up into spaces, and put messages on a few of them. Make a start and a finish space, and decorate your game. Color the spaces and use pictures, clip art or stickers to create a theme for the game, and you’re all set.
Next, make a set of cards that will help your child practice something. These could be sight words to read, math facts to answer, or even questions over the latest social studies or science unit. Before rolling the dice or spinning the spinner (you can borrow these from other games or get blank ones at a teacher supply store), each player must respond correctly to a card from the deck. First player to the end wins!
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tutor1235
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:37 am
Such a great game i love games.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:42 am
thank you for this article! your blog is very good.