Things You'll Need:
- Large piece of cardboard
- Solid-color scrapbook paper
- Game tokens
- Dice or spinner
- Stickers
- Fine-point marker
- Apple or leaf cutouts
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Step 1
Create a design on the game board that allows the children to move their tokens in an organized manner from bottom to top. The design should be of adjoined squares (must like the childhood game of Chutes and Ladders).
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Step 2
Create squares of importance. A harvest board game for preschool children should be played with either dice or a spinner. The children take turns moving their tokens until landing on a square of importance. When landing on a square of importance, children are asked a simple question relating to autumn or harvest time. If answered correctly, the child collects a predetermined amount of leaved or apples.
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Step 3
Create charade cards. Randomly, mark a square that instructs the players to pick a charade card. A charade card should give instructions to perform an autumn- or harvest-related activity, such as picking an apple or stacking bales of hay. After charade is performed, player receives a predetermined amount of apples or leaves.
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Step 4
Create setbacks. Randomly mark a few squares that instruct the player to move back or to return a predetermined amount of apples or leaves.
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Step 5
Create a pile of apples or leaves. Create a free space in only one location on the game board. This free space allows the player to obtain the pile of apples or leaves that were lost from other players.
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Step 6
Create a winning goal. When playing with apple or leaf cutouts, the player who finishes the game with the most amount of cutouts wins. Another winning option is to allow the player who gets to the end of the game first to be announced as the winner.
