A simple silly game that encourages imaginative game play for 2 or more players.

          I love to create games. One day, my then two very young daughters said, "Why don’t you make a game we can play?" So, I thought it'd be fun to create a game together that we could all play. I gave them different coins for their playing pieces and found a standard six-sided die to get us started. One of my daughters wanted to use a doll shoe for her playing piece instead, and then my other daughter decided that she had to find something to be her game piece. We started with a bunch of circles on the board for spaces and then linked them together with a single line that made a big loop. Written in each circle was something that a player had to do when they landed on it. The game didn't have much color with just the circles with words in them, so I got some crayons and they added some color to the circles and the board, which they enjoyed doing and made the game a lot cooler looking. We had a lot of fun creating and playing the game that we called the silly game.

         I made a small revision since the first game, but the idea behind the game is still there. There are four categories designated by four shapes. Circle-make a face, Square-make a sound or noise, Triangle-do an activity, and Star-make believe you are something. You move your game piece around the board and do what the spaces say to score that shape. There’s a picture in each of the shapes that goes along with the activity. The first player to score one of each of the four shapes or three of the same shape wins the game.

My copy made from the downloaded pdf here. 
Note: It still needs to be colored in with some crayons, but that's part of the fun.

If you would like to make your own free copy of The Silly Game click below.
You just need 4 sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper (letter size) and a printer.
The Silly Game pdf

After you print out a copy you can turn it into the mini book version by folding all 4 sheets of paper in half together
with the cover sheet on the outside, then I use a paper clip to keep them together. Perfect for a Little Free Library.