This lesson is a fantastic time filler, not just once, but over and over and over. One rainy day can be spent making a game and many rainy days can be filled playing the game. Some board games have definite starting and finishing spots and the object is to beat your opponent to the finish, like Sorry, Parcheesi, or Life. Some games are more about capturing your opponent's pieces, like checkers or chess. Monopoly is about buying property, winning money, and forcing your opponents into bankruptcy.
Some games are games of wit, like Trivial pursuit.
And some games are just plain fun, like Candyland and Chutes and Ladders. What all these games have in common is that they are played on a board and each player has a playing piece to represent them on the board. Today we will make playing pieces out of polymer clay and design a game board. First decide what the object of your game will be. For the purposes of teaching this class I recommend that the premise of the game is to reach a finishing point before anyone else.