Use this game board to review or teach I Will Follow God’s Plan in singing time! Your primary will LOVE choosing the right picture to go in the colored spaces in order to advance in the game! Make sure to check out the video demonstration below for more details!
Creating the Game Board
To create this activity, you need a game board, game markers and game pieces. This game board is available in my Resource Library:
Instructions for accessing my Resource Library are found at the bottom of this post.
Several printing options are available:
- 20 x 30 JPEG document
- 20 x 30 PDF document
- 9-page 8 x 11.5 PDF tiled document
I chose to print the game board at Costco which requires the 20 x 30 JPEG document. Here are instructions for doing so:
- Go to costco.com and click on “Photo” in the menu bar
- Login or create a login
- Upload Photos
- Upload the 20 x 30 JPEG document after downloading to your device
- Print Image
- Choose lustre print
- Choose 20×30 size
- Proceed to check out
After you have your game board printed, you need the game pieces and markers:
Again, Access these printables at my Resource Library. Print on card stock, cut everything out and laminate (optional).
The game markers are from Susan Fitch Design HERE (it’s the last link). The illustrations on the game board and game pieces are also Susan Fitch illustrations.
Use tape on the back of the game pieces. However, I recommend using magnets for the game board and markers since they will be continually moved. Tape may start to not stick throughout the game (find my favorite magnets HERE).
You will the need dice {well, die – since you only need 1}. These large foam dice HERE are my favorite!
You are now ready to use the I Will Follow God’s Plan game board!
Setting up the Game Board
- Boys vs. Girls (requires 2 teams using 2 markers)
- No teams (great for Jr!) – just play the board as one big team (requires 1 marker)
- Classes (up to 4 markers)
- Random selection depending on the size of your primary (up to 4 markers)
Singing Time Idea
TIP: To speed up playing, sing the song as as teams are taking their turn rolling and moving their marker.
The first marker that makes it to the upper right hand corner (heaven) wins!
This is what the completed game board looks like:
UPDATE: This was SO fun! Even Sr. Primary was involved as everyone wanted to sing and listen for answers. We didn’t finish so hopefully we can pull it out again!
Bear Testimony
Bear testimony that in life we are faced with choices. When we choose to follow his plan, we are blessed.
Game Board Video Demonstration
This is my video demonstration for more details:
You can also find this video on my YouTube channel HERE. I’d love it if you’d like and subscribe!
Check out this quick tutorial video for accessing the Resource Library:
These printables are filed on my Resource Library page under Song Title > I Will Follow God’s Plan.
32 thoughts on “I Will Follow God’s Plan – Game Board”
Thank-you! I figured it out!
You're amazing.
I love this idea! you're inspired! 🙂
This is such a great idea, thank you for taking the time to put this all together and share it with us!
Have you seen the new music videos that the church has for the primary program songs? I'm excited about them. 😀 So far they have one for last month's song and this month's song, on the "I Can Play It" page of music from the Friend. http://www.lds.org/friend/i-can-play-it?lang=eng
For me, they played better in Windows Media Player than in Quicktime.
I love it and made one last night. Thank you for so many wonderful ideas. I appreciate all the ideas you share with us. Thank you! Thank you!
Thanks so much!
Im in Australia and was going to cost $20 in colour so i printed in B+W and used my craft inks to add the colour, thanks heaps for your ideas realy helps me and save me lots of time in ths very involved calling with 60 in our primay i have lots of children to teach.
I'm so flattered that my little spot on the internet is reaching all the way to Australia! I'm glad to help!! Thank you for the nice comments!
~Camille
Thanks again camille the kids loved this game and i will use it again durring the year to review the song. i also found this im going to try next week thought you might like it if you havent seen this link before.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aY44utLjvm0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DaY44utLjvm0
I belive the lesson topic is about the body in week 3 and this activity will be fun for this song. enjoy.
Catherine in OZ
What a fun and fabulous idea! Thank you so much for sharing! Can't wait to use this. One quick question..how did you add the title to your game board?
Hi Becca! When I printed it at Costco, it had a "title" option so I titled it "I Will Follow God's Plan" and picked a font. If you are printing this at home, it won't have a title. I hope that answers your question!
~Camille
I love this too! I also have a question – what do you do when they pass a colored square because of a ladder or large dice roll? Thanks!
I played it two different ways. The first time I left the colored squares blank if we passed any. That way if we went down any slides and had to pass over the colored squares again, they were still blank. When we finished the game however, I noticed that not many colored squares were filled in. So when we played it the next time, we just filled any square in as we passed them. I hope that helps.
~Camille
Way cute! I think your hand drawn chutes and ladders are adorable!
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This is great! Thank you for sharing!
I've just uploaded to Costco.com and they are warning me of a resolution issue. Is the grey version as large of a file as the black version? Thank you! Great idea.
They are the exact same file, only I changed the color. I didn't get a resolution warning (at least I don't remember) and mine printed fine. I can directly email you the file if you want to try that. Just use the "Contact Me" tab above and I'll try to get it to you asap. Sorry you are having trouble.
~Camille
I printed this at Costco as a 20×30 as you suggested, but it isn't actually sized as a 20×30 and a bunch of it got cut off. What was your trick for printing it?
Hi Stace!
Sorry you are having trouble – I updated the post so there are exact instructions on how I printed my poster at Costco. I am assuming you printed yours simply as a 20×30 PICTURE. Mine is a collage POSTER. I've also created and added a larger resolution picture (grey one only) to hopefully ensure it's not pixelated.
Let me know if you still have questions.
~Camille
I had a similar problem. I wasn't going to add a title, but decided I would play around with it. When I added the title, everything popped right into place for whatever reason. Just in case someone has the same problem, try adding a title.
What did you resize the images to?
Hi Jessica, it was originally sized as an 8.5 x 11 so I just doubled it to be 17 x 22. It didn't give me a resolution warning on costco's website once I did this.
Camille
Thanks for this wonderful idea
I followed your instructions and even though I still got the resolution warning, I took a deep breath, trusted what I'd been told, and ordered the print. Turned out great! The pictures of the earth and sky are somewhat pixelated, but the squares are all perfect. Thank you so much – really excited to give it a try tomorrow!
I too followed the directions for collage and the poster came out awesome! I am so excited to see how my kids do tomorrow!! I love your ideas and suggestions…thank you for helping me fulfill my calling in such a fun and colorful way each week. I have followed your lesson plans for 7 weeks now as this is one of 3 callings I have and I could never keep up without your help…thank you!!!!
Loved the idea, but I created my own poster… Are you okay my with having used your idea, but not using your poster? I should have asked before I just did my own thing with your idea. FYI the kids loved it!
Hi Melissa!
I seriously don't mind AT ALL! And you never have to use permission to tweak or change one of my ideas. I glean ideas from all over the place and cater them for my primary and my teaching style. My only goal is to help so whatever aids you, then go right on ahead! I'm glad the lesson plan worked well for your primary! That is so thoughtful of you to comment to ask, thank you!
~Camille
Thank you so much for all you do! Your website inspires me and I don’t worry so much about my calling!
Hi Ashlee!
Thank you for taking the time to leave such a nice comment! Totally made my day :).
~Camille
This is SUCH a cute idea! Printed it out to use next week and loved all of the directions. Made it so easy! Thanks so much for all your great ideas!
Hi Rebekah!
I’m go glad to hear that it printed okay for you. Sometimes I never know how it turns out for everyone, even if my copy did fine ;). Thanks for such a kind comment, it means more than you know!
~Camille