Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of board game play large group activities on
children's sociability. Method: The participants of this study were 43 children(an experimental group n=21, a
control group n=22) at K elementary school in Gwangju metropolitan city. 10 sessions for 80 minutes of board
game play large group activities were administered to the experimental group, but no activities were provided to
the control group. The large group activities were conducted using selected board games to reach the goals of
‘rapport formation’, ‘forming sociability foundation’, and ‘sociability improvement’. The test instrument used in
this study was ‘the sociability test’ corrected by Lee(1997) based on ‘personality test’ of Cheong(1971). The
mean and the standard deviation on pre-test and post-test were calculated and the effects were analyzed by
ANCOVA. Results: The major findings of this study were as follows; First, the experimental group showed a
significant increase in the level of sociablitiy compared with the control group. Second, the experimental group
showed significant increase in the level of two sociability sub-factors(cooperation, sociality) as compared with the
control group. Conclusion: These results imply that the board game play large group activities were effective in
improving children's sociability.