How to Make Board Games About Plant Cells
- 1). Place the display board, folded, on protected cutting surface. Quarter the board with your mat knife by cutting it in half from side-to-side and from top-to-bottom. You now have four folding game boards, you will need one to make this game.
- 2). Draw a square around the inside of one of the boards, one ruler's width from the edge. Repeat with another square inside the first square you drew. Draw lines between these two squares every inch and a half around the entire board. These will be the spaces through which players move around the board.
- 3). Write "start" in a space with the permanent marker. Write "draw a card" in every 5th space around the board. Draw a few arrows along the top side of the spaces to indicate which direction play moves. Draw two business card rectangles on the game board (3.5" x 2").
- 4). Look up plant cells on the Internet or in a biology book. Write out a "complete list" of plant cells on the board with the permanent marker. Using your list, write the names of the different plant cells individually on business card stock until you have several complete sets. Write interesting plant facts, plant trivia, or types of plants on the remaining cards.
- 5). Cut out pictures of plants, leaves, flowers, gardens, and scientific photos or drawings of plants from your magazines. Wet the back of each cut-out with Mod Podge and paste them individually to the game board and the backs of the cards until all are covered in collage, except for the spaces you drew, the rectangles for the plant cell cards, and the complete plant cell list. Collage the back of the board once the face of the board dries.
- 6). Cut out the business cards along the pre-perforated lines, after the collage dries. Gather a few rocks, nuts, shells, or small bits of drift wood to use as game pieces. You will need as many pieces as you have "complete sets" of plant cell cards. Shuffle the plant cell cards. Place half on each of the plant cell card rectangles. Place all the players game pieces on the "start" space. Each player rolls the dice and moves around the board, drawing a plant cell card each time they land on a "draw a card" space. The first player to collect a "complete set" wins.
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