Looking for the perfect board games to pair with The Wednesday Wars in your homeschool? Step into the world of Shakespeare, school lunches, and 1960s suburbia with your curious learners! If you're exploring The Wednesday Wars Bookish Adventure, these thoughtfully chosen board games inspired by Shakespeare will make your homeschool come alive!
The Shakespeare Game: Make Your Fortune in Shakespeare's London
Journey from Stratford to London in the footsteps of the world's best loved playwright, collect characters and race round London's theatres to put on as many plays as you can before other playwrights steal your ideas, burn down your theatres or spread the plague! In this fun family board game, you will absorb details of Elizabethan England as well as learn loads of references to Shakespeare's plays. The winner is the player whose plays take the most money at the box office, and the fastest in the race to fame and glory.
Magnetic Poetry Kit: Shakespeare
Break into spontaneous prose and wax witty upon thy steely surfaces with this saucy collection of bard-inspired word tiles drawn from the works of Shakespeare, including bawdy, wicked, haste, love, mortal, wherefore and maiden.
Zounds!: A Shakespearean Card Game for Rhymesters, Rulers, and Star-Crossed Language Lovers
Collect complete plays with all four of their leading characters. The wild cards can increase or decrease your fortune. If you fill in the missing word in the lines of dialog on the bottom of the cards at the end of the game, whether on your own sets of cards or others', you earn extra points for each correct quote. May the biggest Bard lover win!
Munchkin Shakespeare Deluxe
Munchkin Shakespeare Deluxe is a standalone card game, also compatible with other Munchkin sets. Players battle monsters, steal treasure, and betray their companions, all while using Shakespearean language and themes.
Much Ado About Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game About Shakespeare
To VERB, or not to VERB? With 21 “fill-in-the-blank” stories about tragedy, comedy, and star-crossed lovers, Much Ado About Mad Libs is the perfect activity for any aspiring thespian! Play alone, in a group, or at the Globe Theatre!
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- videos and podcast lists
- book party planner
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