Childhood games made paper

Get directions on how to make a colorful Penny Spinner on this page. Pom-Pom Basketball. This paper game is so sophisticated that your friends will think you bought it in a store! Find out how to make Pom-Pom Basketball. The Basketball Bead Toss is a great test of hand-eye coordination. Learn how to play this paper game on the next page.

The Basketball Bead Toss tests your hand-eye coordination. How many tries will it take to make a basket? When you've mastered the technique of swinging and catching the bead in the basket, challenge a friend to try their luck. Cut an egg cup from one of the corners of the carton, making sure to include the tall edge that separates the cups. This becomes the back of the basket. Neatly trim the remaining edges, and paint the basket white.

Let dry; seal with clear gloss spray. Once the spray is dry, use permanent marker to draw cross-hatched diagonal lines to look like netting. Paint the dowel red and the bead burnt orange; let dry. Seal with clear gloss spray; let dry completely. Draw black basketball lines on the bead using permanent marker. Set aside. Push a thumbtack through the tall edge of the basket from the inside out. Run a 1-inch-long line of glue at the top of the dowel.

With the tall edge of the egg cup aligned with the top of the dowel, press the cup onto the glue, pushing the tack into the dowel. Ask a grown-up to help you use a hammer to pound the tack in if necessary. Hold the cup in place until the glue takes hold; let dry completely.

Measure 2 inches down from the top of the dowel, and use the finishing nail and hammer to make a starter hole on the back of the dowel, opposite the basket. Remove the nail, and twist the small eye screw into the hole. Tie one end of the string to the eye screw. Slip the other end through the bead; tie to secure. Add a drop of glue to both knots. The Brokenhearted Puzzle is a great way to send a message to your valentine.

Find out how to create this paper game on the next page. Give your valentine the Brokenhearted Puzzle and tell him or her to put this broken heart together to get a sweet message. Put your valentine to work trying to figure out this heart-shaped puzzle. Draw and cut out a large construction-paper heart. Glue it onto a piece of thin cardboard, and cut around the heart when the glue is dry. Write a message in large letters on the heart. You may want to write a sample in light pencil first so you can make sure your message fits.

You may decorate your message and the rest of the heart with pretty designs and colors, maybe with tiny hearts, bluebirds, flowers, or small cupids. When you are finished, cut the heart into several pieces, and put the pieces into a pretty, decorated envelope. Give your broken-heart message puzzle to someone you love for a really special Valentine's Day card. How many points can you score in the Button Flip Game? Read about how to make and play this paper game on the next page.

When you play the Button Flip Game, you'll find out how many points can you rack up by using a button shooter to flip smaller buttons into an egg carton. This game is guaranteed to provide hours of fun. Cut behind the cone-shaped dividers, leaving these and one row of cups intact.

Trim the rough edges behind the cones. Paint the carton black, getting into all the little nooks and crannies. Let dry. Decorate with dimensional paint. Let set for an hour, then spray with clear gloss spray. Set aside to dry while making the point markers. Trace the point marker pattern onto each color card stock twice. Outline with black marker, and cut out. Print a number, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, or 60, on each marker.

Bend the top of the marker back, and glue the long end of each behind an egg cup. Place the game on a table or the floor. Place a piece of tape several inches in front of the game.

With the small buttons anywhere behind the tape, use the shooter button to flip them into the egg cups. Tally your points as you go. Craft Stick Puzzles are made out of old books, so you just might learn something while you play with them.

See how to make this paper game on the next page. You can make Craft Stick Puzzles by recycling old picture books. Learn how to to make puzzles from your favorite stories.

Line up 7 jumbo craft sticks side by side on your work surface, and tape them together to hold them in place while you work. Turn the sticks over.

Start by distributing the playing cards to all players. In turn, each player fans out his or her cards and the player to the left gets to pick out one. When a player is able to form a matching pair, he or she can put down the pair.

The objective is to get rid of all the cards. The player with the Old Maid card, i. As a variation, you can also make the player holding the Old Maid card the winner. A playground favourite, the rules are similar to tag. The police are in charge of rounding up the thieves by catching them. However, all is not lost as they can still be rescued: provided fellow thieves risk their safety in trying to rescue them by tapping them. Photo credit: quinn. Ever reminisced about those t-shaped boxes drawn in the ground or formed with coloured tape on concrete?

Hopscotch was a clear favourite back in the day and was a more laid back game as compared to the more active, running ones. Simply toss a beanbag or any small object into each box and hop on over to the box to pick it up while maintaining your overall balance on one leg. Using a large bunch of rubber bands that have been joined together into a long chain, players have to jump over the rubber band rope.

Think of Zero Point as an adaptation of limbo, with the modification of having to go under, rather than over. With each successful jump, the difficulty is raised as the rope is raised higher until players are unable to cross it.

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