Printable Game Board Templates

Making your own board games for the classroom or the home is a great way to extend the learning or just personalize a game to make it about your classroom or family or your interests.

While it might seem difficult to make your own board game, there are actually a lot of templates out there that will help you get started. Whether you want to make a sight word Monopoly game, a math facts game or a fun action game where you fill in the blanks, here are some resources to get you started.

If you don’t want to have to come up with the full concept for the game all by yourself, try this printable homemade board game from Twitchetts. It includes a printable game board kids can color in (and you can connect as many as four of them together to make a longer game if you want) as well as printable, fill in the blank action cards (go forward or back x number of spaces, act like a fill in the blank, etc.). You just need dice and markers (mini figures are a great option).

Hobby Lark has a collection of 14 printable game boards you can use for all sorts of projects. There’s a Monopoly style board, trail-like boards similar to Candyland, a Trivial Pursuit board (with customizable game cards), snakes and ladders, a checkerboard and more.

Let your kids design their own games with these printable board game templates from Surviving a Teacher’s Salary. The post suggests using them to have kids design a game based on a book they’ve read, but you could use them in lots of different ways.

And if you just want it all done for you other than the printing, Musings of an Average Mom has collected a bunch of fun printable games you can use. There are games about the weather, sight words, pets, colors and shapes, letters and so much more. You’re sure to find something your kiddos will enjoy here. I love the alphabet slides and ladders game from Tiny Me.

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Christmas Language Arts Activities

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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