On that note, this is for PisecoMom who asked about the homemade risk game. This is a United States version, which means that they drew the United States instead of all the continents. The kiddos stole the dice from the Yahtzee game (another of our favs). The first game used the cowboys and indians shown in the picture to represent the troops. The second game used the beans that were hand painted. Each color represents an army. The boys love making maps, I had gotten a DVD from the library that all the kids enjoyed "Map skills for children Making & reading maps / [videorecording] Schlessinger Media". (There were lots of treasure maps in the days following.) One of their favorite parts of the DVD was about the compass rose and key. So for that reason the compass rose is disproportionately large in most of their maps. I don't know a lot of the rules (they change each time the kiddos play), but I am keenly aware it is all about domination. :)
We love chasing little "learning rabbit trails", this one lead us onto learning about the states. The "who can name the most states game" and "who can name the most "A"/"C"/etc states game" came shortly after this one. Don't you just love a day full of games?
One of my favorite quotes is from Plato. "Life should be lived as play."
If you ever have a question or want to see more of something, just let me know. Thanks again for the comments and keep 'em coming.
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How are you doing those appliques???
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