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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

"Promised Land" instead of "Candy Land"

For Family Home Evening last night I made our own version of Candy Land. I called it "Journey to the promised Land". I took colored construction paper and arranged it on the ground like a giant candy land board. Then I covered it with clear contact paper so that it wouldn't come apart when we stepped on it. Then I made a "dice" or "color cube" by covering a giant square block with the same colors as the path. (you can also use a square shaped box taped together so it's even and smooth on all sides) With each roll of the dice they had to answer a question that had to do with Nephi's adventures up until he and his family got to America. We've been reading the Book of Mormon to our kids every night before bed since Alan was 3 and Sarah was 2. We've gone through it almost 3 times now. So I wanted to see how well they knew the beginning of the book. We had 9 different sections on the board identified with pictures and the questions coincided with the sections (notice the white papers stuck to the board).
The sections were : Getting the brass plates, Nephi's vision on the mountain, The Tree of Life vision, Going back for Ishmael's family, The Liahona, The broken bow, Building the ship, The trials on the ship, then the end was reaching the Promised Land. And the Promised Land was eating dessert in the kitchen. (: We like dessert :)
Needless to say, the kid's loved it. And they did suprisingly well on knowing the answers to the questions. If anyone wants a copy of the questions we used, just post a comment about it here.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a fresh new spin on a classic, old game! I like it. It's just what we've been looking for. We've been looking to capitalize on the relgious sector for a long time now.

James Garner
Marketing Director
MILTON BRADLEY

Corley said...

i'd like the questions!!! that sounds awesome!!! how are ya'll by the way? miss you and love you!

Ben said...

I think Tom looks a little shohrt to play that game :)

Ben said...

*short*

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