{"id":397,"date":"2009-07-20T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=397"},"modified":"2009-11-26T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T21:19:14","slug":"ants-at-a-picnic-file-folder-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Ants at a Picnic File Folder Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">The idea is that you want the ants to make it over to the picnic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">How to make the game: I used a circle punch to make the black circles and glued them on to folder to make a path for the ants to take from the start to the finish, which is the couple having the picnic. The couple, by the way, is some clipart that I found and printed. The game pieces are simply clipart ants glued onto colored circles. Finally, I laminated the game board and the ant pieces for durability with contact paper.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ant_game.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-398  aligncenter\" title=\"ant_game\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ant_game-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ant_game\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ant_game-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ant_game-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ant_game-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/ant_game.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">How to play the game: Begin with the ants at the starting position. The players take turns rolling a die and moving the appropriate number of spaces. The ant that makes it to the picnic first is the winner. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">FYI: In the past, I have had to help encourage the &#8220;ants&#8221; that didn&#8217;t &#8220;win.&#8221; I would let them know that there was alot of food at the picnic and that the winning ant would need some help because it couldn&#8217;t possibly eat all the food himself. This seemed to help squash any potential quarrels or tears because they didn&#8217;t &#8220;win.&#8221; Fortunately we have played enough games now that my kiddos don&#8217;t get too upset when they don&#8217;t come in first! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea is that you want the ants to make it over to the picnic. \u00c2\u00a0 How to make the game: I used a circle punch to make the black circles and glued them on to folder to make a path for the ants to take from the start to the finish, which is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,39,16,15],"tags":[236,162,235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}