Roll and Find: Giant Die Control Board Game

A giant butcher-paper board has 20 squares, each showing a playground place. Each team rolls the die, moves its marker and goes to that real place, where a challenge card is waiting. After completing it, they come back and roll again. It builds orienteering and following game rules.

How to play

1. Draw a 20-square board on butcher paper; in each square, a simple drawing of a playground place (the fountain, the hoop, the bench…). Put a cone with its challenge card at each real place.
2. Make 5 teams of 5, each with a marker (a small cone) on the start square of the board, laid out by home base.
3. Taking turns, one team member rolls the giant die and moves the marker. The whole team goes to the place drawn in that square.
4. There they read the card and do the challenge (10 frog jumps, everyone passes the ball…). If the square has a star, the card lets them move two extra squares.
5. They return to base, another member rolls, and so on. The first team to reach square 20 wins, but play continues until everyone finishes (about 15 minutes).
6. Wrap-up: each team says which place on the board was hardest to find.

Rules

• Teams roll in turn, and a different member rolls each time.
• The whole team goes to the place together and finishes the challenge.
• Wait your turn if another team is at the same cone.
• Move only your own marker.

Variations

Adaptations

• Limited mobility: the student rolls the die and handles the marker, and the challenge cards include a seated version.
• Autism: explain turns with a visual card and keep the board in sight at all times.
• Fitness level: challenge cards have two levels, and each team chooses which one to do.

Learning goals

• Identify playground places from drawings or symbols.
• Take turns and follow the rules of a board game.
• Combine finding places with movement challenges.

Equipment for a class of 25

• giant dice: 2
• butcher paper: 1
• cones: 25
• challenge cards: 20

Teacher tip

Put the board somewhere sheltered from the wind and weigh it down with cones. If two teams keep landing together, ask one to wait a moment before setting off.

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