Free Mid-Autumn Festival Snakes and Ladders Game

Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. It is a perfect opportunity to introduce students to Chinese traditions in an interactive way. One of the best classroom activities for this season is playing a Mid-Autumn Festival Snakes and Ladders game.

On this page, you can find Snakes and Ladders printable board game for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

How to play the game

Preparation

• Simply print the snakes and ladders sheet out, suggest using hard cardstock or laminate for durable use. (There are A4 size and 2xA4 size versions that you can select.)

• Students need one dice and some small objects as tokens such as erasers.
  • If you don’t have a dice, check out our free dice template, print the dice template out with cardstock, write numbers on each side, cut out the dice shape, and glue the edges.
  • To make the dice fun and engaging, you can write the numbers on the dice in Chinese so that students can get the chance to practice Chinese numbers 1 through 6 as well.)

How the Game Works

Just like the classic snakes and ladders, students roll a die and move along the board. But instead of ordinary squares, each space is decorated with Mid-Autumn Festival vocabulary images—like 月饼 (yuèbǐng, mooncake), 灯笼 (dēnglóng, lantern), and 月亮 (yuèliàng, moon) etc..

•  Each player places their token at square 1 (the start). Players take turns rolling the dice. Move their token forward the number of spaces shown on the dice. If student lands on the bottom of a  ladder 🪜: Climb up to the square at the top of the ladder. If student lands on the head of a snake 🐍: Slide down to the square at the snake’s tail. Student who reaches the goal square first wins.
• Teachers can add challenges, like using the word in a sentence or matching it with a picture.
• Snakes and ladders keep the game exciting, while the theme keeps it festive.

Why It’s Great for the Classroom

• Engaging: Kids love board games, and this one turns learning into play.
• Memorable: Vocabulary connected to the festival is easier for students to remember.
• Flexible: Works for small groups, pairs, or the whole class.

Extend the Learning

You can combine the board game with other Mid-Autumn Festival activities like:

• Board game
• Domino vocabulary matching
• Coloring pages with festival symbols
• I Spy Mid-Autumn Festival

This way, students get repeated exposure to key words in different formats.

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Words included in the snakes and ladders game

Moon — 月亮 (yuè liàng)

Mooncake — 月饼 (yuè bǐng)

Jade Rabbit (Rabbit) — 玉兔 / 兔子 (yù tù / tù zi)

Chang’e — 嫦娥 (cháng é)

Osmanthus Flower — 桂花 (guì huā)

Lantern — 灯笼 (dēng lóng)

To further learn and practice the above Mid-Autumn Festival-themed vocabulary, check out our Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Printable Pack which offers a variety of no-prep and engaging activity worksheets covering Pinyin, Chinese characters (Hanzi) and vocabulary.

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How to Print

When printing:

1. Open the file (PDF or image).
2. Click Print.
3. Choose your paper size.
4. Set Scale or Size Options to:
   • “Fit to Printable Area”
   • or “Fit” / “Shrink to Fit”
   • or “Scale to Fit Page”, depending on your printer brand

This ensures:

• No design gets cut off
• Borders stay clean

Parents and teachers anywhere in the world can print this sheet easily without worrying about formatting issues.

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