How to Build Your Car Game
Games are great family activities that can bring family members closer together. When the family comes together to make the game, the potential for strengthening family ties is even stronger. A build your car game can be educational, too. Younger family members might not have given much thought into what goes into building a car, so after they help to make the game and play it, they'll be spotting car components in the cars that pass by on the road. They can also take the game and play it with their friends.
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Instructions
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Take a notebook and pen and make notes on the rules for the game. It's better to have as many family members present as possible so that everyone understands the rules clearly.
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Decide on the necessary parts to make your car. This can be your basic game, but you can certainly make your own rules as you go. For example, you could decide that the necessary parts for a functional car are tires, engine, brakes, lights, steering wheel, body, drive chain, windshield and windshield wipers.
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Write each car part on eight index cards. The object of the game will be to collect index cards with all of the necessary parts to build your car.
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Finalize the rules. For example, cards will be shuffled and nine cards dealt out to every player with the part side down so that nobody knows what the other players have. Players will take turns laying one card down in the discard pile and picking up a card. Make sure the number of cards dealt matches the number of parts needed to complete a card.
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Add a trade feature to your game. Every player has the option twice per game of selecting a card from someone else's hand and giving him a card in trade. This would be fun if you color the backs of cards at random with color markers so that players can try to match a color to a needed card.
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The first player to gather all the needed cards wins.
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Tips & Warnings
Use a rubber band to keep your index cards together.
With younger players, there always seems to be arguments about rules of the game.
Resources
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