The game board seen in the above two pictures was made with a large canvas painters tarp, primed with a base coat of a latex paint. This also sealed it so that it would not soak up the acrylic paints. The design is based on Candyland layout. The path was penciled on and then painted with 6 colors (these correspond to the 6 colored sides on our dice which was constructed out of a 20 inch box filled with a styrofoam sheet cut into squares to fit and then liquid nailed closed and painted.) After painting, the board path was outlined in bold black marker and one of 3 symbols were painted in a number of the squares.

The symbols are: crosses for questions that invite the children to share God's presence in their lives and lives of others (roll again), black holes (dots) that are situations that challenge the children to think about their responses to difficult situations and how they can reflect Jesus (must wait one turn before answering) and then question marks which are questions that directly relate to the unit that we are doing in rotation or if we are doing it at the mid year time they would be review questions about the units in the past few months as well as general bible knowledge questions (regular turn).

Kids act as the playing pieces, sometimes we will have a cluster act as a playing piece and tell them crazy confining ways to move form place to place. Kids role the large dice. Kids on a team answer the questions as a group so we also appoint a spokesperson for each team. The bible pictures around the path are in the order that you find them in the bible from creation to Jesus' second coming. I believe there are about 32. The pictures are just to keep them thinking of the prominent stories and how their messages should affect their lives.

When not in use the game board could be hung on a gym wall (by putting grommets in it) but we roll it up on a carpet tube and store it. When we use it we always end with twister. The kids LOVE IT. We are very silly about the body parts that we call out. There are many other ways that this board could be used. Our Junior High and highschool kids loved watching the other kids play (they are released from classes earlier to socialize). I think it would be a lot of fun at women's retreat as well. (The kids are only allowed on the board with stocking feet to reduce wear and tear.) Another aspect about this kind of game board is the fellowship that went into making it. There were MANY people who volunteered time to painstakingly paint the beautiful bible scenes that follow the path. The adults who have volunteered to run the game (we always use two game show hosts) have also really enjoyed their time doing this. For review questions, it is best to ask each unit leader to submit questions based on their rotation unit so that questions are being asked relevant to what the kids were introduced to or rather discussed. game board. The kids LOVE THIS!