This half term the Digital Leaders were really pleased to be making a board game using the programme Textease, for the Year 1 children to play.
In the first session they designed their board game on paper, mapping out their pathway and selecting which spaces were going to have the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ rule spaces. These were rules about keeping you safe when going using a computer, tablet or phone.
In the next session they drew their board out in Textease, amending their brush to ensure the lines weren’t too thick and using the snap to grid function so their game spaces were all level.
Then came the fun bit of filling their game spaces with colour and choosing a jazzy background. The boards were really brought to life at this point and everyone was surprised how easy it would be to make their own game again.
Next using their typing skills they typed out the rules into some of their largest spaces – they had two good spaces and two rule breaking bad spaces. They could choose how many spaces backwards and forwards people could go.
To finish off the game, they needed to add a title and some clipart.
Have a look at the pictures, what do you think of our games? We can’t wait to play them!
We are going to be sharing them with the year 1 children in Internet Safety week.
