Ladders and Lamps: Diwali Board Game for Kids
Children play a ladders-and-lamps board game where good deeds like sharing sweets are ladders and messy or unsafe choices are slides, then work out the shortest route and the biggest ladder and slide.
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- Board game and probability
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- Page 21 of 28 in Diwali Light Quest Big Explorers Activity Pack: Maths, Puzzles, Stories & Science for Ages 7-10.
How to use this worksheet
Put counters on Home, take turns rolling and move along. Only the bottom of a ladder and the top of a slide count. Reach 36 first to open Lakshmi's door.
Materials needed
- A dice
- One counter each
- Pencil
Extension activities
- 1Add your own ladders and slides.
- 2Find the fewest rolls needed.
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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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