Date Night, Lovopoly
/“Life’s deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments but in relationships”
Gary Chapman
So, I wanted to come up with something fun and exciting for our next date night get away. Since I was on a budget I had to be really creative. I prayed “Lord I need your help, yet again”. I love when prayer is answered instantly. Holy Spirit took me to this awesome picture from Pinterest. There I discovered this very inspiring, personalized version of the monopoly game.
Does the picture get your juices flowing like it did mine?
Anywho, I read the instructions and collected the material needed. I am nearly done with our personalized version. I promise to post it next month. I have included all the information needed to complete your very own game. Let’s make September “Lovopoly” month. I will be inviting you to post your picture and a brief comment about your experience on www.beholdthe1thing.com.
This was created by Becca from Happiness is Homemade
Instructions:
* She made her own board, cards, and money using poster board
* She used the dice, houses, and motels from the real Monopoly Game
* She cut out pictures of their faces to use as playing pieces
* She found the Monopoly rules online. Using the cut and pasted options in Word, she replaced some of the words to match her game (turned "Jail" into "Doghouse", "Go" into "Home", "Community Chess" into "Family Jewels" and "Chance" into "Get Lucky."
* For the "Family Jewels" cards, she put in expenses from their real life.
Examples: "Time to buy more diapers pay $25" or "Grandma sends a birthday card, you get $30"
* For the "Get Lucky" cards, she put in romantic memories from their love story.
Examples, "Head on over to the Ghost Swing. And while you're over there, share your first kiss." She chose properties that had special memories to them like where they had their first date, where they first held hands, kissed, where he proposed, where they spent their honeymoon, etc.
* Instead of using the four railroads, she did four cruise lines: Passion Pacific, Sweetheart Ship, Cupid's Cruise, and Lover's Line. When making the cards for the properties, she copied the numbers for the values for mortgage, rent, and house prices from real properties in real Monopoly--it just made it easier.
Let’s thank Becca for this great idea!