Dung Beetle tunnel game
In our last post we showed you how we made our marble/dung ball tunnel game! Here are a couple of videos of us playing this really simple and really fun game…
Board games
Underground tunnel game
Thinking of game ideas about dung beetles made us think about how we could make a 3D tunnel game. Take a look at what we came up with! Can you design a 3D game with cardboard or tubes? We started off with toilet roll tubes and some marbles. We had been reading about how dung …
More playing piece ideas
We got inspired by yesterday’s lego beetle post and so got creative ourselves! We used all sorts of lego pieces to create legs, wings and tails! First we made a large lego model of each of the three insects. Then we tried to make smaller ones that would be a better size for a board …
Lego beetles
Just look at these fabulous lego beetles! Wouldn’t they make great board game playing pieces? Ru loves making things with lego, so we will try to make our own lego insects for our board game experiments. P.S. We found these lego beetles here
Game strategies
The three insects that you can base your board game on are the dung beetle, the mayfly and the hoverfly. You can find out lots about these insects here Once you’ve found out lots of amazing things about your chosen insect, how can you design a board game around those facts? Let’s think about the …
Plastic bottle bugs!
Just take a look at these brilliant bugs and beetles made from old milk bottles (from the Festival of Making website)! They might be a bit big for a board game playing piece but we thought they were so inspiring! Could you use a large bottle beetle or bug as a part of your board …
Developing your playing board
So you’ve got a great board game idea and now you’d like to make it more complicated or make it look more finished? You can follow the development of Ru and my dung beetle board game as we take it from first ideas, through playing it and working out what works (and what doesn’t!), to …
Playing the mayfly game!
Here’s a very short little video of us playing the mayfly game – we’ll be working on some improvements soon but the basics are already fun! As you can see the game is very simple – just cardboard and coloured paper – but it’s still really fun to play and quite hard! Sometimes the simplest …
Playing ‘Feed the Fish’
Our really simple catapulting Mayfly game was really fun to play and quite hard! We used a lego catapult and little bits of scrunched up tissue paper for the mayflies. Ru and i only managed to get one mayfly in the fish’s mouth! When we came up with the idea of feeding mayflies to a …
Making 3D board games
So you’ve got some great ideas for a board game, but have you thought about making the whole board three-dimensional? Ru and I will be posting a whole load of experiments and ideas for you to try, including this one where we try to make a hoverfly game with steps up and down! We found …