Herd the Bull Board Game
Drive your bull home with this exciting game! These traditional rules are borrowed from Sudan. Crayola® Model Magic® and fun are today's favorites!
1. Dala is played by the Bagara people of the Sudan, where bull herding is part of everyday life. Sudan is a country located on the African continent between Egypt and Eritrea. It borders the Red Sea.
2. Kids around the world create games with the materials they have handy. Dala can be played on paper, although in Sudan it is traditionally played in the dirt with sticks. Dala is played by two people. Each player starts with 12 game pieces.
3. To create your game pieces, divide a large handful of white Crayola® Model Magic® into 12 equal parts. Shape all 12 in a similar way, such as circles, square, or thumbprints. Players should choose two different shapes.
4. Decorate your game pieces to reflect your confidence in victory. You could press in designs. Or color the modeling compound with dye from a Crayola Multicultural Washable Marker. Knead in the color a little to make the modeling compound marbleized. Knead a lot for smooth color. Dry overnight.
5. On a large piece of paper, draw a grid six spaces across and six spaces up and down with markers and a straight edge. Make sure each space is big enough for one game piece.
6. Players take turns placing one piece on the Dala board at a time. The four center spaces must be filled first. Then players may choose any empty square to fill. Any move that gives a player three game pieces in a row allows that player to remove any one of the opposing player's pieces from the board. This is called herding a bull on the board. When players have a bull, they can keep moving one piece back and forth, scoring three in a row every other time.
7. The other player, after making a bull on the board, teases the opponent by saying "tsp, tsp, tsp" the noise a herder makes leading a bull home. A player wins when all but two of the opponent's pieces have been taken.
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Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
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