Printable Game Board Templates

April 4, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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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Make Unpoppable Bubbles You Can Play with Inside

If it’s hot where you live, you might be looking for some fun activities you can do with kids inside the house. And while bubbles are generally a strictly outside the house kid of activity, these special bubbles are ones you can play with inside. It’s both a lot of fun and a science lesson.

These bubbles aren’t blown into the air, you blow them onto a tabletop gently through a straw.

What’s really cool about them is that they will stay on the table top without popping. You can even blow another bubble inside the first bubble, or stack bubbles on top of each other.

Why does this work? It’s thanks to a special ingredient in the bubble solution: sugar.

This particular recipe is from Play Party Game, but I’m sure you can find it other places with similar ingredients as well. But this post has a good explanation for what is normally happening with regular bubble solution made mostly with just soap and water, as well as why the sugar helps to make bubbles stronger and helps them last longer.

You could make this into a full on science experiment for your kids, comparing regular bubbles (this time you’ll want to do it outside or somewhere easy to clean) to the “unbreakable” bubbles, letting them hypothesize about what ingredients might help make bubbles stronger or what the sugar does to the solution.

You can talk about the molecular structure of the bubble being altered by the sugar, which makes it stronger and longer lasting.

They even have an activity kit you can buy to help guide your explorations and that offers extension activities for you to try.

Or you could just play with them. No judgement here; it’s summertime.

Grab the recipe and more of the science behind the bubbles from Play Party Game. And while you’re playing with bubbles you can also check out my giant bubble solution recipe over at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Play Party Game]

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