| Contributed by: Joy wilhite@snowcrest.net
Life-Size Monopoly
Before we played the game with the YW, the YM used one of their night activities to make
the real estate, community chest and chance cards. The real estate cards were on
pieces of white paper approximately 14" x 20". We used colored construction
paper lbr the colored stripe at the top. Then we wrote the name of the real estate
on the white part with bold color markers or crayons. On the night of the activity,
we taped the real estate squares to the gym floor.
For the chance cards, we used 8 1/2 x 1 1 sheets of paper with the actual phrases from the
real game.
You may make hotels & motels but may not have time to utilize them. Use the
actual monopoly money and play with the rules from the actual Monopoly game.
We used some large dice such as fuzzy ones from the auto store.
On a combined activity night with the YW, make teams by using one YM and one YW (more if
needed) to where you have about 6-8 groups. You can actually have up to three on a
team but I wouldn't go over that amount. Have them share responsibilities and
decision making.
The teams take turns just like the real game. Its a fast paced game and I think it
has to be to keep their interest after the initial excitement. R's good to have two
adults there to keep the kids occupied while not rolling the dice. When it's not the
team's turn to play, maybe have the "bisholy' (any other adult) go around and collect
tithing and/or fast offerings or savings for missions.
At the end tally up the money and see who won. If stored away the "game pieces"
may be used over and over. The youth loved this activity. They were telling
their parents about it when
they picked them up to go home afterwards. Plus, they're asked when we're going to
do it again. I think this showed just how much they enjoyed it. We don't want to
wear it into the ground so we'll wait awhile to play it again. What I'd do
different: I would split up the youth into classes (ages). We had approximately 15
YM and 20 YW that night (too many). It works best when the genders are mixed.
They are kind of forced to "deal" with each other.
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