After the market was flooded with home personal computers and the real-time entertainment industry emerged, they started talking about the "death" of board games. As it turned out - prematurely. All the children (and, as it turns out, adults) are still delighted with the color field laid out on the table, on which it is required to move the chips according to the number of points that fell on the discarded die. And it is especially appreciated if a do-it-yourself board game is made, because then you can choose any theme for it.
The popularity of board games is not declining. The famous "Monopoly", for example, has been loved around the world since 1934. But a detailed copy of the game "Monopoly" with your own hands is boring, agree. Isn't it better to show a minimum of imagination and rename real estate cards to enterprises located in your city or country? This will make the entertainment much closer to reality.
The game can subtly bring a child to the world of money, teach not only how to use it, but also how to calculate expenses. A board game, made with your own hands on the topic of finding treasure in the desert, makes it possible to return to the city and buy things necessary for searches at the bazaar. But what to spend the money from the treasures found? On the "eternal flask" with clean water? Or the “long rope” so that you can go down to the “abandoned well”, but on the way back risk dying of thirst? I have to choose.
A self-made educational board game, necessarily includes an educational element.
“Overcome the obstacle”: it is considered completed only when the child correctly reads the sentence on the card. "African photo safari": to "take a picture" of an animal, you need to find its image in the catalog book and read the description. "Cosmonauts": "flight" in space is accompanied by a meeting with
celestial bodies, stars and constellations, each should have a mini-story.
It’s enough just to make cardboard boxes with paired pictures, mix them and put them on the table with the “shirt” up - here you have the board game for finding the same pictures. First, one square flips over, then the second. If the pictures on them are different - the details are turned back upside down; if they are the same, they remain. Do-it-yourself board game can be complicated: instead of the second picture, a word is written in a foreign language; So they are better remembered, plus the vocabulary is replenished.
In a wide and shallow pallet, sculpt islands, reefs and shallows from waterproof plasticine, designate ports in different colors, and make simple boats from the same shades. Now you can play at least pioneers, at least pirates of the Caribbean. And the child, playing the role of the wind and blowing in the sails of the ships, simultaneously performs breathing exercises.
These are just a few of the examples to make clear: a do-it-yourself board game can be made from anything and on any topic. The main thing is that it be exciting, and interest in it would not disappear soon after the start. It is also important that the same pleasure be obtained from the process of creating a game with your own hands.