Learn your herbs, board game, and have fun!

by admin on Friday, July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Hi everyone,

Learning herbs and having fun doing it is an ideal. Try to teach your child about herbs without them becoming bored or disinterested. Or try teaching yourself, without falling asleep.

Our kids knowledge was lacking in this area, not to mention ours. How could I live off the land? (Not that I ever would have to.) The question still stands.

I knew that are kids would not know what to eat if they were placed in that situation. I knew that I didn’t even know which plants are good to eat or not.

I wanted to learn about medicinal and edible herbs, then I remembered that somewhere I saw that there was a board game along this same theme.

I did some looking and found it, a board game for the kids called “Wildcraft – An Herbal Adventure Game”

I ordered it and it came. The kids got to the package and opened it and saw the game and laughed. They didn’t laugh after they started playing it. We played that night and they wanted to continue playing it, but it was getting too late. BTW, the picture of our game is below.

It’s for ages 4 and up, plays like Candyland and doesn’t require any reading, and is for 4 players (We have more than 4, so we just made teams). This, “no reading required”, is good because I have a child that is just learning to read and one that doesn’t read at all. (There are 4 out of the womb now).

Anyway, the way we play the game is, you are sent from grandmas house to the huckleberry patch and are supposed to be the 1st one back with the 2 baskets of huckleberries before night fall. The huckleberry patch is on the top of the mountain. On the way you go around the board, when you land on a plant square, you pick a plant card, which is either edible or medicinal, you keep it.

When you go around the board, you probably will land on an “X”, which is like a “conflict” card. Sometimes you get like “Insect Bite”, “Scrape”, or “Hungry”, then the “conflict” card has a picture list of plants that will help you with that conflict. If you have a plant card that can help your conflict, you solved your conflict with your plant, both cards are discarded (not in the trash, in another pile).

Sometimes you land on a “rainbow”, cooperation, space. You can use this card to help someone else who doesn’t have a particular plant to solve their issue, but you do. It’s actually good because the “cooperation” card teaches you to help out someone else in need.

Like I said, whoever gets to the top and back first wins. I don’t believe the rules say that, but we play that way, I don’t know how everyone could win (that’s not real life), but…

It’s a good game, I highly recommend that you get it for your kids, nieces, nephews, relatives, friends, grandkids, etc.

The kids (and you) will learn through repetition edible and medicinal herbs, and have fun doing it!

Click here to get it.

“Wildcraft – An Herbal Adventure Game”