Making Snakes & Ladders Type Board Games

1. Decide on an idea for your game. Is it:

• A Spaceship?
• A Castle ?
• A Maze ?
• A Haunted House with ghosts ?
• A Forest with big trees ?
• A Secret Island ?

2. Make your game 50 squares long. Every 5 or 6 squares, something good or bad should happen to the player. Use lots of colours and make your drawings big and exciting.

3. Make some playing pieces from card with each player's first name written on.

4. Use some of these words, or use your own:

• Go back 3 Squares

• You find a secret tunnel, go forward 4.

• It's dark. Nobody can see you. Add 2 to your next throw.

• Miss a turn.

• You are tired. Miss a turn.

• The guards are sleeping. Have an extra turn.

• Go back to the Start.

• You find a map. Go to number 25.

• Take the secret road to number 40.

• Have another go.

• You have gone the wrong way. Go back 10.