This is a great game to get kids involved with as it will also improve their letters and words skills. Create a board with a maze of what appear to be random letters in it, hiding certain words that are related to the elections within it. These words can be spelt forwards, backwards, vertically, horizontally and diagonally to make the game more interesting. Time players to find as many words as they can in one minute and the player with the most words at the end wins the game.
This may take some time to create the board, but once you have you will get hours of fun out of it! A spin on the classic board game Monopoly, this game replaces the areas of London with key states in the US. The players choose their favorite politician (they may not necessarily be running in this election, but that doesn’t really matter for the purposes of the game) and have to move around the board, ‘buying’ certain states and votes – just make sure you teach any children playing that buying votes is not part of the democratic process! You can even adapt the ‘chance’ and ‘community chest’ cards to make them election themed – for example, rather than ‘you win second prize in a beauty contest’ you could have ‘you came second in the Iowa caucuses’. Players can even dress up in their favorite election 2012 shirt to make the game more fun!
Much like the TV game show of the same name, your contestants choose a particular politician or party and are asked to answer a number of questions on them. Whoever has the most points at the end of the rounds is the winner, although you can make the game more difficult by throwing in ‘brain buster’ questions. These are questions chosen by you that can be about ANY political figure in American history, adding an element of surprise to the game!
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