Move Around The World

Topic
- Nature & ecology
- Geography
Learning skills
- Logical thinking
- Spatial orientation
- Coordination & flexibility
- Gross motor skills
Activity type
- Board game
- Circle group game
Materials
- Basic
- Self-made
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
5 - 15 minutes
2 - 4 players
Intermediate
Hard
Small (office, pavement)

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Everything you need to play this game

Large cardboard or poster board
Markers or colored pencils
Printed or drawn: a blank (blind) world map
Printed or drawn: flags of Australia, Koerdistan, Syria, Sweden, USA, Belgium, Germany, India, France, China, Burundi
Printed or drawn: Frog, Kangaroo, Flamingo, Rabbit, Elephant, Eagle, Moose, Peacock, Lion, Panda
Spinning wheel (cut from cardboard with a center pin or bottle top)

Make it yourself

Step 1

Center

A large blank world map (no labels, just outlines of continents and countries).

Step 2

Top and bottom edges:

Place the flags of the 11 countries.

Step 3

Left side

Arrange the animal drawings vertically.

Step 4

Bottom right

Create a spinning wheel divided into 20 spaces (10 flag silhouettes + 10 animal silhouettes).

Use a brass fastener or pushpin to allow the wheel to spin.
Add a cardboard arrow in the center as a pointer.

Good job!

A step-by-step guide to play the game

Be the first player to collect 5 tokens/points by correctly identifying animal-country-flag connections and completing the movement challenge!

Player 1 spins the wheel. The arrow will land on either a silhouette of an animal or a flag.

If it’s an animal silhouette, the player must say the animal’s name, then:

Guess which country it belongs to.
Point to that country’s flag on the poster.
Try to locate the country on the blank world map.

If it’s a flag silhouette, the player:

Identifies the country.
Names an animal that is commonly associated with that country (based on poster hints).
Points to the animal and the map.

Once the animal is correctly identified, the player must do the associated exercise (see extra game information).

If the player completes all 3 parts (identify, locate, move), they earn 1 token.

Next player spins and repeats the process.

The first player (or team) to collect 5 tokens is the winner!

Extra game information

🐸 Frog - 5 frog jumps
🦘 Kangaroo - 5 boxing arms
🦩 Flamingo - Stand on one leg for 15 sec
🐼 Panda - 2 somersaults
🐇 Rabbit - 5 rabbit jumps
🐘 Elephant - 5 elephant walks
🦅 Eagle - Run with eagle arms for 15 sec
🦌 Moose - 5 deep lunges
🦚 Peacock - 15x rolling outstretched arms
🦁 Lion - Run around and sit down 5x

This game concept was developed by a team of Sanoma during a StreetwiZe leadership expedition in Lanaken, Belgium.

Variations

Add music during movement challenges.
Act out animal movements dramatically for fun.
Use sticky dots on the world map to show correct answers over time.
Let players draw their own animals and make personalized wheels.

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