Board Game Templates You Can Print

Whether you like making games for the classroom or for family game night, this collection of simple printable game boards will make it easier. I’ve shared some printable games before, but it seems like people are always looking for these sorts of things so it was time to share some more.

Favorite Printables has a fun blank printable path style board game, and there’s also an option with some of the slots filled in with different movements. This one also comes with printable challenge cards, and the blog post includes some ideas for what you can put on your cards if you don’t have any ideas. You could also make this a trivia game for things you’ve been learning in class or family lore, or make it a way for players to learn more about each other.

Surviving a Teacher’s Salary has printable board game templates and offers the idea of having kids develop games based on books they have read as an alternative to a traditional book report. She also talks about using them for math concepts, so there are lots of options for making them educational if you want.

This Reading Mama has a great set of printable board games and lots of ideas for how to use them to make your own games. I like the idea of using flash cards to practice reading or basic math to proceed on the board, but you can also come up with your own concepts.

Just Family Fun has a cute set of boards with different themes like a bee going back to the hive, a mouse going to cheese or a path that leads to a gift box. These simple games would be great for little kids and you can color the spaces different colors for different actions (or color spaces and each person uses a different color to advance when they roll a die?).

Do you ever make up your own games using printable board game templates? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Favorite Printables]

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Printable Game Board Templates

As I write this, back to school time is right around the corner, and if you have kids going to school for the first time or who might need a refresher on what school is like, books can be a big help in calming fears and letting them know what to expect.

School Days by Fabiola Sepulvelda is a wordless picture book full of photographs of various things that happen during the school day, such as leaving home, getting off the bus, greeting your teacher, raising your hand to talk, circle time, reading, quiet work, lunch, recess, art and music, and greeting your parent at the end of the day.

This is a nice book to prompt conversations about the way things might look and things that might happen at school, and could also be used in the classroom to talk about routines and what happens each day. It’s meant to be for kids who don’t yet know how to read, but could be used with older kids as well.

Ready for School by Dona Herweck Rice and illustrated by Amanda Morrow follows a little girl through a day getting ready for school and thinking about all the things that happen at school. It covers things like calendar time, mat time, being read to, math (they’re learning to count to five), recess and art. She’s so excited to go she wakes her mom up and it’s still nighttime.

This one is good for kids who like reminders of how the routine goes (both getting ready for school and being there) and those who might be apprehensive about what’s going to happen or if it will be fun.

The same author has a series of books that are meant to be for ESL learners but would work for others as well. Welcome to School has photos and single words or short phrases for things you do to get ready for school, different ways you might travel there, greetings, morning meeting activities. people you might see at school (like teacher, student, custodian), places and objects you’ll find around school, things at recess and school rules (like line up and raise hand).

Your School Day uses longer phrases (“riding in car” instead of just “car,” for example) and older children in the photos. The routine is also for older kids and uses bigger words like announcements and equipment. It also shows photos of different subjects kids might study, different kinds of learning groups and more people and places you’ll find in school.

A Day at School is kind of in between these two, with older elementary students going through many of the same things. This one doesn’t mention morning meetings but also doesn’t use the level of vocabulary of the book for older kids. Either this one of Welcome to School would be fine to use with young kids who already speak English but might like to see all the things and people they’ll see at school.

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