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BCP Council, England / Our BCP Libraries / 22 Aug 2022
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From YouTube: Brainy Board Game Activity with the Purr-fessor

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Today, the Purr-fessor shows us how to make a brainy board game! You can print the game pack here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zNRCh0e4zAq27rUijmdJXl0Y8MQda3pz/view?usp=sharing

Watch more videos with the Pur-fessor:
Creative Code Breaking: https://youtu.be/s0VOPseGk48
Brilliant Balancing: https://youtu.be/mXmAEFbf8HY
Mechanical Makes: https://youtu.be/VBTHJFSsRAo

Have you joined the Summer Reading Challenge yet? Find out more in this video: https://youtu.be/C-VSQpD1bz8

You can also find out about all the activities across all BCP Libraries here: https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/Libraries/Children-and-young-people/Documents/Libraries-Summer-Reading-Challenge.pdf

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The theme of this year's summer reading challenge is the gadgeteers, just like the gadgeteers. The professor is inspired by science and inventions. Bcp libraries have plenty of new books to spark your curiosity. This year, read six books throughout the summer holidays to receive your certificate and medal. We also have lots of activities in our libraries, including crafts.

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Additionally, you can join the professor on our youtube channel throughout august for some science-based activities. You can either pick up your craft bag from bournemouth library or download it from the link in the video description. So, let's get started on this week's craft.

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Hello, everyone and welcome to crafts of their professor today he's going to show us how to make this brainy board game. So, let's get started so for this activity. You need the board and also the sheet that has the cards spinner and counter on, and you can click on the link in the description where you'll be able to download and print this for free or you can draw your own. It's totally up to you. You can also pick this bag up from bournemouth library this week.

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So, first of all, I am coloring in the board and the board is like a piece of dna that you have to go all the way down and answer questions. So I'm just using my coloring pencils, but you can do whatever you like. You can use crayons, you can use felt-tip pens and you can either design your own board or print this one.

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So here is the professor down here in his lab and I'm just coloring him in.

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And once you have colored in your board, you will maybe have something like this and what I am going to do. This is optional. I am going to cut it out around the line very carefully with scissors and just make sure you've got a responsible grown-up, with you to help you here. So I'm just going to cut it out and then once I have cut it out, I'm going to mount it on some card.

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I've got some silver card here, but you can use any color you like, or you can just mount it onto a piece of packaging to make it a little bit more sturdy.

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So here is my board: I'm just attaching it now.

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And then we need to get started on the counters and the cards and the spinner. So this sheet, I have printed onto some card, but you can use paper if you've only got paper. That's fine and I'm just coloring in the question marks for the question cards and then I'm going to color in the spinner and then the cat, paw counters.

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So these are my counters, I'm coloring them in four different colors. So it's easy to spot whose counter it is and then once you are done, you will need to cut them out again, be very careful with scissors. Make sure you've got a grown-up round to help you. So here are my counters, and here is the spinner.

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So for the spin up you can either use a straw or you can punch a hole through with a pencil and use that to spin.

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So you spin the spinner like this, so when you spin the spinner it will land on an atom which either has one two or three particles in it, and that is the number of spaces you move. So now, I'm just writing out my question cards. You can write whatever questions you like you. Maybe you've read some interesting books this summer about science and you want to use questions from those or you've got some homework that you want to do, and you can use that to write your questions. It's totally up to you.

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My question here is what planet is closest to the sun and I'm also writing the answer on as well, which is mercury and for my next question, I put what organ pumps blood around the body- and that is the heart, and this one is to recite your six times tables.

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So when you are done, you can put the question card on the pile on the board and then use the spinner and the professor is going to demonstrate turn for us.

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So you spin, the spinner and it's landed on one. So he's moved his counter one and he lands on a question card, and now he has to answer the question.

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So that is how to make a brainy board game.

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So that is all for this video. But there are three other videos with the professor which are linked below where you can make some creative code breaking some brilliant balancing and some mechanical makes.

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And don't forget to visit your local library to either join up or tell us all about your books for the summer reading challenge.