The kids have really gotten into trivia games and especially enjoy watching Jeopardy. I couldn't pass up this opportunity to use it for a fun learning experience. So for the elementary-age kids (Faith & Dylan), the teenager helped me design a Jeopardy game. Every Friday, we play a new Jeopardy board with questions from categories like Bible, Science, Geography, History, Healthy, etc.
I started with a large piece of white tagboard and framed it out with cardboard to make it a little more sturdy. I then broke up the board into 30 squares the size of 3x5 index cards. In the middle of each square, I put a small magnet. Then on 30 trivia cards, I put the magnet on the inside with the question. On the back, I wrote the category name and monetary amount. There are oodles of websites with trivia questions, so it wasn't hard to find those. Another good source is the popularly-used-by-homeschoolers books, "What Your ___ Grader Needs to Know." We plan on using new questions each week for three weeks and then the fourth week, we will use a combination of the previous three week's cards for a review. It's a little bit of extra work, but the kids had a blast. Also, it's a great way to cover all those extra subjects and topics that you haven't got to yet or need a review on from the previous year.
