Hello. How is everyone at your School? Did you have a good summer? We have been sent to my Aunty’s house. She runs a Guest House and bar. She has saved.

Hello. How is everyone at your School? Did you

have a good summer?

We have been sent to my Aunty’s house. She runs a Guest House and bar. She

has saved these things and challenged us to see

what games we can make?

She has also given us some dalasi to buy a few things.

We have bought a large piece of card and some coloured

markers, three small hard balls and three

ping pong balls.

Do you have any ideas

about what games we can

make?

We have quite a few. Let us show you.

We have carefully marked out sixty four squares, eight

by eight. Can you guess what game we are making?

We are going to colour half the

squares in black to make the playing

board

Nearly finished!

Yes, we have made a draughts set and we are using the bottle

tops as draughts

Now we are marking out

another board game. Its called

Ludo and it is very popular in

The Gambia

It’s a game for four players and you have to get

you counters around the board

and into their home.

We forgot to but a dice so we have made

a spinner from card and a nail in the

middle with 1 to 6 on it

You spin the spinner and what ever

number you get says how many squares you can

move your counter.

The winner is the person who gets their four counters

around the board and home first.

Now we are playing The Flag Game

You draw nine circles in a square and connect the circles

up. Each player has three counters of different colours.

Each player takes it in turn

to put a counter on the flag.

You win by getting three counters in a row. It’s a bit like

noughts and crosses.

When you placed all

three counters

on the flag you take it in turns to move one

of your counters.

But you can only move it on to an empty circle that is next to your counter. You keep playing until

someone gets three in a row and wins.

And this is called The Frog Game.

It’s a mental challenge. There

are seven lily pads. There are 3

yellow frogs at one end and

three green fogs at the other. The middle lily pad is

empty

The challenge is to get the 3 yellow frogs to where the green ones are and the three green

frogs to where the yellow

ones are in as few moves as

possible.

But there are strict rules. You can only move

a frog one space and only onto an empty lily pad. Or you can jump over a

single frog if the lily

immediately the other side is

empty.

You can move and jump

backwards as well as forward. The challenge is

to see if you can do it in just

17 moves. Good Luck.

We are using the nine plastic water bottles

and the hard balls we bought to play

skittles.

You have one go to see if you can knock

all nine bottles down . . . . and that’s a

STRIKE!

I have only got seven

down. I think the girls are going to win this game.

This is our uncle’s awari

set. It’s a traditional

African game.

He does not let us play his board so we are going to see if we

can make one.

We are going to use the

egg boxes to make the board and the bottle

tops as counters

The awari board needs six holes on

each side. The holes are called houses.

The game is for two people and each

player owns one row of six houses

Each player starts with

four counters in each of their six houses

The rules are a bit complicated but

you pick up all the counters in one of your houses and

move them around the board

And if you last counter lands in an empty house

you capture all the counters in the house opposite.

The winner is the player who

captures the most counters

We are using the cans to have a stacking

competition

We all found 7 possible with

care but 8 was much more

difficult.

We had races to see who could stack 7 tins

the quickest.

We have cut the plastic milk

bottles in half and we are

going to use the tops as catcher.s

You have to bounce the ball

once

And see if the other person in your team can catch it. Its boys against girls and the team with the most catches on the run

wins.

We have used the long cardboard box to make a pitch for blow football. We are also going to

use the straws and ping pong balls

You have to blow really

hard.

We made a rule that if your straw touches the ball the other player gets a free blow.

And of course, where there is a ball, what ever its size, us boys love to play football. Auntie will make us

play outside for sure.

Well we hope you enjoyed finding out about the games we made and

played during the summer.

We start back at school on

September 16th. And before you start thinking how lucky we are we don’t

get a half term break like you.

We will write to you soon. Bye

for now.