Board games with their own hands

Unfortunately, nowadays all leisure and children and adults prefer to spend sitting at a computer: playing computer games, roaming the depths of the Internet or socializing in social networks. Board games are a great way to bring the whole family together for a common occupation. And it will be even more interesting to gather behind a table game, independently invented and made by own hands.

How to make a board game yourself?

Make a home board game is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. First of all, you need to come up with a plot of the game. This can be an exciting "brodilka" with a lot of obstacles, or a cunning strategy, or a game of logic. The main thing - that it was interesting to everyone playing. Having made a "pilot" version of the game, it is necessary to collect as many participants and conduct testing, during which all existing shortcomings and miscalculations will appear.

Board games with your own hands - ideas

Next, we offer you several master classes and general ideas, how to make a board game yourself.

Idea 1: board game for kids "Journey"

For the game we need:

• an empty cardboard box from under the cheese;
• chip-buttons;
• glue;
• game cube;
• color pencils, markers or markers;
• White paper;
• scissors.

Getting Started

1. Draw the playing field. To do this, draw on a piece of paper a circle around the diameter of the box. Inside the circle, draw a spiral and divide it into small sectors.
2. Each sector of the playing field will be painted with bright pencils and we will put the conventional labels that denote the conditions. For example, the "+1" mark will mean that the player who gets to this cage has the right to move forward one more field, and the "0" mark will force him to skip the move.
3. You can also make a game field with the letters of the alphabet in each cell, and then the one who comes to this cell will have to name the word beginning with this letter.
4. On the cover of the box we glue a bright picture, so that nothing distracts from the game.

Idea number 2: board game "Cheerful Zoo"

This game will help not only to have fun, but also develop the creative abilities of children.

For the game we need:

• cardboard;
• colored paper;
• chips;
• Cube;
• pencils or markers.

Getting Started

1. We cut out the playing field from white cardboard. On each side, we will divide it into six squares.
2. We will take the corner squares under the cells "Start", "Eraser", "Brush", "Rainbow".
3. Intermediate squares will be painted in red, yellow, green and blue colors. This can be done with felt-tip pens or by pasting squares cut from colored paper onto a box.
4. We will prepare 10 game cards of each color, on each of which on the back we will designate the part of the animal's body.
5. The rules of the game are as follows: in the beginning all players build their chips at the start. Throwing a dice and getting on a cage of a certain color, the player takes the appropriate card and draws the appropriate part of the body to his animal.
6. If you hit the cage "Eraser" the player skips the move, on the cage "brush" - goes to the cage "Eraser". The "Rainbow" cell allows the player to take a card of any color to choose from. The game is considered over when all the players have completed three full laps.

Idea # 3 board game "Sea voyages"

For the game we need:

• plastic tray of blue color;
• plasticine;
• cork or foam;
• toothpicks;
• colored paper.

Getting Started

1. From the multi-colored plasticine according to the scheme we blind the 7 islands and place them in the sea-ocean in such a way that they do not overlap each other. The role of the sea-ocean is played by a plastic tray filled with water.
2. We build small boats from plugs and colored paper. For each player from color paper, we cut out 7 flags.
3. The aim of the game is to visit all the islands and set their flags on them, without touching the ships, but only blowing on them.

In addition, you can do developing games for kids , as well as Montessori materials.