The gameboard is made by painting one of the Letter Puppet symbols in each square. I use inexpensive polyester fabric (I look for the dollar-a-yard stuff at Walmart) and assorted fabric paints or plain old acrylic craft paints. The gameboard shown in the picture is my first gameboard... and the second one has larger squares, so that my BIG feet fit in the squares!
Make one LARGE die from a square box.
The first time we played the game, I put a small container of beads on some squares, a page from the Principle puppet booklet on other squares, and some simple magnetic cutouts on other squares.
There are many ways to play the game, and the object is NEVER to have a single winner. Children take turns throwing the BIG die and moving ANY direction to the correct square. If it has a bead, they take the bead IF they can tell me the name of the character and what they stand for (Aretha.... for Respect!) We continue playing as long as the children are interested, or until they have collected a bead for each character and a booklet page for each character.
The really WONDERFUL thing that can happen is that the children help each other out. If one child lands on a square that she/he does not need, it's perfectly fine to give the bead or page to someone else.