Board games with cards with your own hands. Why do board games cost so much - or do-it-yourself board games. Buy board games for children or ...

Cutting out cards. Dust is interesting: it covers everything very quickly in papermaking.

I have been asked many times how a box of cut cardboard can cost 1,500 rubles. What is it about her?

1. From the formation chain, that is, starting from the development and production costs, this is the lower limit.
2. From the economy - how much people are willing to pay, and what price can be set until competitors are devoured (this is the upper limit, it also shows what cost of production we must fit into).
3. And from the cost of analogs-substitutes. In our case, handicraft production. That is, making a board game with your own hands.

Let's start with the box

• We do it ourselves. Of course, you can take a shoebox or the Russian Post, but it will be scary and not about the game. The cost of the mail boxes is here. As you can see, those for 90 and 120 rubles are suitable for us, but you can keep within 70 rubles (in practice, they get even cheaper - if without a logo).
• We do it for the exhibition. In our case, the preparation of a game that has not yet been released for the exhibition requires a full-fledged pasting of the box. We do this manually at our production site using the existing felling, ordering the printing of liners in a digital printing house, that is, on the basis of one of the standard production boxes. The cost, including manual work, is already about 1000 rubles.
• We do it in the printing house as a pre-production layout. This is a beta box, according to which you need to check how the inscriptions look, if there are any problems with the image on the corners, and so on, twirl it in your hands, put it in our special cabinet in the office with games (like in a store) and evaluate the visibility in the layout from afar. For this beta, the printer prints out a sheet of cardboard with a bottom and a sheet with a lid. Then all this is cut out with ordinary scissors and glued together with tape. It is immediately clear whether something needs to be corrected in the layout or if we send it to circulation. The cost of such work is about 700 rubles. The box is perfect for presenting a project to a publisher, but not for permanent use - it will unstick and tear very quickly, and its quality is far from "glossy".
• We do it in circulation. Normal industrial boxes have a prime cost with a circulation of 5-10 thousand pieces of about 40-70 rubles per piece. And this is only the cost for production, excluding logistics and other things. The box for your phone is so strong, beautiful - in the cost price, most likely, 150-250 rubles. Hair dryer box (ugly) - cheaper than a hundred. For example, our standard box of the "Jackal: Treasure Island" format with dimensions of 257x257x74 mm, a mouthguard (binding board) thickness of 1.25 mm, ordinary coated paper for pasting, printing and varnish for a circulation of 3000 pcs costs 68 rubles (hereinafter prices an order by an external author of the game as part of the production of his edition). But we, of course, print much larger circulations, and it turns out much cheaper.

The only thing: the photo is not the connection itself, but the application of glue before the connection.

To understand why a box can be so expensive, one has to start from afar - namely, with the question of making boxes in general. Beautiful large boxes in Russia at reasonable prices can be made by 4 factories, and one of them is ours in Podolsk. The rest (not from these factories) are transported from China or other countries. The problem is in the technical process, for example, the lid-bottom boxes (self-assembly is cheaper, but much worse for large games):

1. First you need to take a sheet of cardboard and draw a cutting on it.
2. Then cut down the future constructor for the box (more precisely, two for the lid and bottom separately). This is done with a bang on a crucible press and does not represent anything complicated.
3. Fold the boxes. This is already more difficult, because if the boxes are of different sizes (and, in general, you need at least 4 different standard sizes), then it is rather difficult to automate this. Therefore, it is done by hand.
4. The folded cardboard boxes need to be pasted over with paper (laminated) - pictures and all sorts of inscriptions will be printed on this paper. It is impossible to print on the cardboard itself, because paint is absorbed into it in a completely different way (the offset machine does not work on the tray). If you want beautiful - hold the paper. This is also done in most cases by hand on special machines.

Are all boxes made by hand? Far from it, but a fully automatic line is an extremely rare phenomenon for Russia. We, for example, have our own, but adventures with this fucking creation of a Chinese engineering genius drag on a whole post, where young children are not allowed. On the third day of commissioning, for example, it turned out that the power relay was exactly under the kettle for boiling glue. And this very glue boils, splashes and splashes the contacts tightly. Then the machine rises, and all the glue solidifies inside in thin tubes. We made the first upgrade with a children's sandbox bucket - we protected the relay. Since then, there have been many more upgrades of the same level, only slightly more technological. Now, pah-pah, it works fine.

Printing any sheet is also a non-trivial story. To print a drawing on the liner of a box, you must first prepare the offset film and make a make-up. It costs at least 15 thousand rubles: color separation is done first. What is it for: the printing machine is a block the size of a KAMAZ, in which four colors are applied to the sheet one by one. The first block is the first color, the second block is the second, the third is the third, the fourth is the fourth. By mixing, the desired CMYK shade is obtained - from blue, purple, yellow and black. We also have a fifth compartment - this is for additional processing of our material, for example, varnish or printing in a fixed pantone color. So, you need to prepare and calculate everything so that they are applied correctly - this is color separation and makeready.

Then the offset film is made. The image is transferred from the film to an aluminum mold. These forms need to be loaded into the machine - also not for five seconds (but, for a second, newspapers or leaflets of some candidate could be printed there at that time - that is, idle time is paid). Then makeready begins. To start a print run, you need to spend about 200-300 sheets for print runs of up to 5000 pieces. With large print runs, there may be several adjustments, conventionally, every hour the adjustments are corrected, because it gradually gets lost. Fitting is the accuracy of the color, the accuracy of the alignment of the face and turnover, and so on. At the time of makeready, the printer runs around the machine and slightly tightens the sheet stops, or shifts them, slightly adds ink to the sections, and so on. We print games at exhibitions in a circulation of 50 pieces both digitally and offset - yes, it is cheaper to make them digitally, but there will be no quality for showing. The figure does not allow you to accurately get into the turn with your face, constantly jumps up to 2 millimeters regardless of makeready, digital machines (except for the prohibitively expensive ones) do not know how to accurately position the sheet. In general, solid randomness, disappointment and a rather low-quality color (not least because of this randomness). Large format printing (also a figure, but different) - the quality is worse there, but they can print. The price of turning on the machine is 300 rubles (this is even for one sheet). Standard sheet B3, that is, it does not fit in there as much as we would like. There are also features of paper - for example, a coated layer must be applied to cardboard. This is done for each sheet of the box, for cards, boxes and other components. And this is also a simple case when there is no pantone or varnishing.

Cutting out the box is also a surprise. In general, this is a stamp on the liner cover, a stamp on the bottom of the liner and 2 stamps on the cardboard for these boxes. There are curly exceptions. A stamp for a crucible is plywood, in which the desired pattern is burned with a laser, and then knives of a certain configuration are inserted into this pattern, then the knives are pasted on both sides with rubber bands of a certain rigidity (for a different type of cutting, different rigidity). If you do not put the rubber bands, then after a couple of blows all the knives will be bent - you need to soften the blow, giving such a load on the knife that will allow you to cut through the product, but not deform the knife. Also makeready and stamp production.

Do you think that's all with the box? But no. Now we need a lodgement. This is the kind of thing that holds the components of the game in place - with slots for the cards and so on. You can make a simple and a little scary out of cardboard (it will move away from the walls, small chips will wake up under it, but it is suitable for games from the field and cards). Or you can - inflate the shape of plastic.

It is done like this:

• Handicraft. We take the cardboard and just bend it as it goes. It turns out, as a rule, not very much, but, in general, it does not really interfere, given that our box is no longer from the game at all.
• In circulation. We need a form and a special machine. The scheme for the production of a plastic lodgement does not differ much from the scheme for the production of a plastic bottle (only bottles are riveted in millions, and lodges are riveted in thousands). The cost of plastic is 80-90 rubles. In our artisanal case, cardboard ones are folded for three prototypes. The arithmetic is simple too. Process: development of a drawing, creation of a 3D model, then preparation for the production of a punching die, frames and a punch for mechanical drawing (if necessary), color selection and cutting of the material to be processed - the process of vacuum thermoforming of the lodgements. The cost of the equipment is on average from 50 to 100 thousand rubles. In total, in a minimum circulation of 1000 pieces, the price for a lodgment turns out to be about 80-90 rubles. Another question is that if you make 5000 lodgements (as we do), then the price can drop to 30-40 rubles.
• To the exhibition. For a prototype, you can make equipment not from aluminum, but from MDF, it costs 15 thousand rubles. 10 pieces maximum, and the lodgements will be slightly different in shape. I also need makeready. Polymer costs about 30 rubles for each lodgment.
• At the printing house. In the case of a "household order" in a printing house, a cardboard box in the spirit of "brr" made with manual labor by cutting out according to a sketch is 200-300 rubles per unit. If done correctly - 5000 rubles per stamp, 2 rubles per blow (1 blow = 1 lodgment).

Cards

• Handicraft. You can take card protectors (200 rubles), a regular deck in their size (70-100 rubles) and put pieces of paper on top of ordinary cards in protectors - this way the cards can be shuffled, and this is how they usually bring us prototypes. Or buy prototyping cards made of cardboard and write by hand on them - this is how we test games in alpha.
• You need to make more or less beautiful maps for the exhibition. To do this, we print them on an accurate color printer, take them to a specialized production like ours or a printing house with a tunnel press as in the picture at the top of the post (or, in extreme cases, with a manual rounding off the corners). We could have done it before our production, but it’s cheaper before the printing house, we are in Podolsk. Then we first cut the sheets with the printed cards into rectangles, and then we straighten and round the corners on the press. Such a deck of 100 cards will cost from 3 to 3.5 thousand rubles. It looks good, although there are face displacements relative to the turnover due to inaccurate digital printing.
• For prototype to play or showcase to the publisher, you don't have to bother. You just need to print the cards in a printing house and ask them, or cut the sheets into rectangles with scissors yourself. 100 cards will cost about 2 thousand rubles.
• In circulation- a deck of 100 cards in the size 63 x 89, printed on cardboard 260 grams, 4 + 4, vd-varnish, and different turnover will cost approximately 70 kopecks per card with a circulation of 3000 pieces. There will be a maximum of 100 cards on two sheets. 101 cards - no longer fit into the sheet - plus adjustment and all the consequences. Plus, there is also a separate corrugation for packing and laying work. If you've watched the film "War Dogs" about 100 million rounds of Kalashnikov rounds, you should understand how important this is.

Plastic cards will be even more expensive. In circulation, the need to precisely match the color of the shirts comes up (this immediately means a very precise pantone fit). Plus, there are often non-formatted cards, for example, very small ones - these are new forms. Again, in our case, the printing house cuts by hand, in production it is still necessary to adjust the machine - this is quite a long time.

That's all - if the stamp is standard. We have several dozen of them, and some of them are repeated - to avoid downtime when the stamps are being sharpened. A stamp for a non-standard, taking into account delivery, will be released at about 20,000 and it takes 2 weeks. There is only one factory in the country that produces tunnel dies. They also make tunnel presses, and they have to sharpen these stamps.

Field

• Handicraft. We take a large sheet of cardboard and draw everything on it, or stick a printout on it. 50 rubles per sheet and 20 rubles per printout.
• To the exhibition it is better to do this: we print the image on the liner in digital or wide format. We go to the printing house, where they know how to laminate (glue) binding cardboard with liners. We cover it from the face with our liner, and from the back with beautiful white or black paper. Let our folding box have a size of 500 * 250 mm, shirka + cardboard - then the price is 550 rubles.
• For presentation to the publisher it's easier, like with a box, to print a field on a regular cardboard - this will be enough to get the right impression of the game. The issue price is 350 rubles.
• In circulation 3000 pieces of our field 500x250 mm will cost about 56 rubles per unit.

Rules

• Handicraft- a pack of prints, say, 10 rubles per sheet (this is the price of printing services near the metro, on your own printer is cheaper - but do not forget about the price of the printer).
• In a printing house or for an exhibition: 200 * 200, 12 strips 4 + 4, paper clip = 650 p. Very expensive because of a single print run.
• In circulation- 25 rubles apiece for 1000 pieces.

Chips

The final step is molding into a polymer mold, in which the metal turns into a figurine.

• Handicraft: take chips from another game.
• For the exhibition: you can make figures on an industrial high-precision 3D printer or cast single metal products is not just expensive, but horses are expensive. Model, shape - or model and normal printer. You can take typical wooden ones for the prototype, of course.
• In circulation from 10 thousand pieces per model. In metal, the most difficult thing is a master copy (made of silver, this is needed to make a casting mold). Usually the cost of a 3D model and making a master copy is very high. Then there was a casting run, which does not make sense for runs up to 10 thousand pieces. There is casting "in silicone", where the figure in the cost price at the factory is from 20 to 100 rubles, depending on the complexity and size.
• Less than 10 thousand pieces. It is rational to use wood here. There is nothing more difficult in a tree than coloring. It’s a magical story. A painting machine (so that the paint does not drip, does not flow, does not change color, and then the figures do not paint the table when pressed) costs 20 thousand euros. We toured several German factories looking for used ones. Didn't find it cheap. Then they complained to "Kuzmich" - a local engineer who was lying for half a day under the products of the AZLK plant. He thought about it and said what he would do if we bring him household appliances for analysis. As a result, from the parts of the refrigerator and washing machine, a heap of plywood and pipes, he bungled a monster from Frankenstein. Then, after a year and a half, the Austrians came to see how everything worked. They were very surprised by the quality of the coloring, which in some places is even higher than the German one. The foreigners almost had a seizure there, the second in a day. The first one happened when they saw the industrial zone with the men before the pay.

Loose

Everything else is purchased. Cubes, hourglasses, markers - this is China. In our case, this is our warehouse stock. An hourglass, for example, in Russia, is made only for medicine (scary and large). The rest is about the same. They learned how to make wooden cubes here, earlier it was necessary to have 3 countries in the process. Small-circulation Bakellite production (this is an artificial polymer stone, escalator steps and poker-type chips are made of it, only heavier) went bankrupt two years ago. We are now going to make cubes at home. Something like this.

That is why a self-made game of the same quality as a production copy costs 5-10 thousand per unit (this is when we take it to an exhibition). If all the stamps are new, then the price would be higher by another 15-20 thousand.

The same is true in typography "by hand" somewhere in 2000-2500 (excluding stamps).

Or the same for 1200-1500 in retail on the shelf.

Price formation in the economy

Industrial pricing

Victoria Sakhno

Board games for children are a great opportunity to play together. At the same time, in addition to a fun pastime, they contribute to the development of the child. Depending on the game, intellectual, speech, and creative abilities can develop. Today we offer you to make board games with your own hands to develop the intellectual abilities of your baby and. These games will be interesting for preschoolers and younger students, and the production will take no more than 15 minutes.

Tangram

Tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle invented in the 6th century BC. It is a square divided into 7 shapes: triangles - 2 large, 2 small and 1 medium, square and parallelogram. The essence of the game is to collect from these 7 figures another given figure according to the silhouette. In this case, all figures must be used and it is not allowed to superimpose one figure on another.

Tangram develops logic, attention, imaginative and abstract thinking, as well as fine motor skills of the hands.

How to make a tangram?

As a basis, you can take cardboard, thick felt or porous rubber. If you plan to make the game one-color, then we cut out a square and divide it into parts according to the scheme. If you choose a multi-colored puzzle, then first we draw a tangram diagram on paper, cut it into pieces and then cut out tangram figures of different colors according to the pattern. I chose the second method to make it easier for the child to collect shapes according to the color scheme. As a material, I have porous rubber with a velvet coating, the size of the assembled game is 17 by 17 cm. Figures from such a tangram are quite large.

In addition to the puzzle, diagrams are needed. They are varied in subject matter and can be easily found on the internet. You can print them or draw them yourself in a notebook (like ours).

There are 3 types of circuit difficulty:

1. The diagram is divided into tangram figures and colored according to the color of the main figures. This is the simplest option, when the child correlates the colored figure with the drawn one and lays out the given figure by copying.
2. The diagram is divided into basic shapes, but at the same time it is monochromatic. There is no longer any color clue.
3. The diagram is a silhouette without breakdown into basic shapes. Such assignments become available at school age.

Tic-tac-toe

The well-known game in our performance "Berries - mushrooms". Develops logic and thinking. To make it, we need: multi-colored porous rubber, 1 meter of thick yarn (bright braid or rope), scissors and glue.

Manufacturing process:

1. We cut out the playing field - a square measuring 22 by 22 cm.
2. We prepare 2 pieces of yarn of 22 cm each and glue it on the playing field in accordance with the generally accepted scheme.
3. Cut out berries (5 pcs.) From red rubber and glue a green stalk on top.
4. Cut out mushrooms from brown rubber, also 5 pieces. We decorate the white legs with white rubber. In the absence of the latter, I used a piece of white felt.

When the game is dry, you can play.

Tired of the mess in the nursery? Tired of endlessly collecting toys for your child?

Maze

For my daughter, I did 2 labyrinths: a large and a small one with different tasks. In the small one, you need to help Masha get to the fruit tree. But on the way she is waiting for: a spider, a bee and a snail. The safest path must be chosen. In a large labyrinth, you need to help Luntik collect all the toys and come with them to Kuza for a joint game.

To make a labyrinth, we need:

• a lid from the box (I used the lids from our board games, now these are 2 in 1 games),
• cocktail tubes,
• glue,
• Scotch,
• large bead,
• stickers or cut-out figures depending on the tasks and the plot of your game.

Now we mark the labyrinth itself on the lid, that is, the places where you will glue the tubes. You can create a maze yourself, use our option or copy a suitable one from the Internet. Now we try on and cut the cocktail tubes so that they exactly match the given pattern. We glue them with PVA glue, then carefully glue the stickers (figures). When the glue dries, additionally fix the ends of the tubes with tape.

A homemade board game is a great piece to wow your friends with for another night of home entertainment. But before you can boast about the final result of your creativity, you will have to develop the basic principles of the game, including its goals and rules. After taking care of the first stage, then you will need to create a prototype of the game to test your idea. After the board game is successful in testing, you need to make the final flawless version of the game, which can already be used for evening gatherings with friends.

Steps

Part 1

Write down your ideas. It's impossible to guess when the perfect idea might come to mind. Sometimes it happens that a combination of two whole ideas can turn into a terrific concept for a new board game. Jot down your ideas in a notebook, computer, or a dedicated writing app on your smartphone.

Come up with a theme for the game. Themed games allow you to better “feel” the gameplay. Sometimes the theme of the game is called its “genre”. Adventure games have one simple theme - the desire to get to the finish line the fastest. Complex war games must have conflicts, a game action policy, and a strategy for placing game elements on the playing field.

Develop the mechanics of the game first (as an alternative). The mechanics of the game determine the way players interact with each other. In Monopoly, the mechanics are based on rolling dice, buying and selling real estate and making money. In the board game "Axis and Allies" you need to move the elements of the game across a large playing field and resolve conflicts between players by throwing a die.

• Some people first come up with the mechanics of the game and only then create a theme based on it, while others first come up with an amazing theme and only then adjust the mechanics of the game to it. Experiment with this question to see which way of working works best for you.
• Common types of game mechanics are: alternate moves, dice rolls, moving around the playing field, drawing cards, unfolding cards, auctions, and so on.

1. Decide on the age range of the game. The age range of the game will affect its difficulty and rules. If you are developing a game for children, you will need to make sure the game is simple, easy to understand, and fun. In adult games, you can create something more competitive, exciting and challenging.

   Determine the number of players, play times and size limits for your game. Some games are limited by the size of the playing field, the number of playing chips or cards. The size of the playing field and the number of playing cards also affect the duration of the game itself. When setting these limits, try to keep the following points in mind.

   • The number of players who can play the game. Will the game be fun for only two players? What is the maximum number of players that can play it? Are there enough cards / chips for this?
   • Average game duration. Additionally, keep in mind that the first game round is usually the longest. It takes players time to learn the rules.
   • Game size. Large playing fields and decks of cards usually complicate the game and increase the playing time, but the game also begins to lose its portable qualities.

2. Decide how the game will be won. Once you have written down the main idea of ​​the game, ask yourself what the conditions for winning the game will be. Think about the different ways players can win, and don't forget about them as you develop your game.

Part 4

List the materials you need. When testing is completed, and you are satisfied with the game, you can start making its final version. Each game will have its own needs, so the list of required materials may vary. Make a list of all the constituent elements of the game that should be present in its final version, so as not to forget anything.

Decorate the playing field. The playing field is the centerpiece of the board game, so get creative with your design. Make sure that the direction of movement or playing cells are clearly marked, as well as that all instructions on the playing field are easy to read.

Create the rest of the game. Chips for the game are most easily made using pictures drawn or printed on paper, which you then glue with tape or glue to a solid base such as cardboard. If you are creating a game for relatives or friends, then you can even use real photographs of them to make chips.

1. Collect feedback and opinions from other people before creating the final version of the game. Ask yourself if the game really is what you wanted. Remember that your friends and family will also play the game, so it should still be as attractive to them as possible.
2. Try not to get on the defensive when your game is criticized. Criticism is important for improving the game, so be polite and write down any comments.
3. You can also use bottle caps, beads, glass marbles, pieces of paper, or tokens from other games as tokens for your DIY game.
4. Reduce the size of your game so you can take it with you on the road.
5. When a group of people are testing your game, try to observe them without interfering with the gameplay. This will allow you to gauge how well the rules of the game are perceived by those who are completely unfamiliar with it.

Warnings

• Try to keep the rules for the game as short and simple as possible. Any unnecessary complications can make players lose interest in the game.
• Make sure the rules of the game you come up with are fair. The aim of the game is to please people, cheer them up and set a positive attitude.
• If you plan to publish and start selling your own game, make sure that you do not explicitly infringe on anyone's copyright. If something looks very much like other games, it would be better to revise and change these elements.

Want to create your own board game for family evenings or get-togethers with friends? Then this article will answer all your potential questions and provide many ideas and options for implementing the idea.

This article is for people over 18 years of age.

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How to make a board game with your own hands?

Nothing unites and brings a company closer together (regardless of the number of participants, their age, gender and degree of familiarity with each other) like a board game. Nowadays, gatherings, the purpose of which are board games, are back in vogue, because this is a great way to spend time both with family and with friends. Moreover, at home, you can create a board game yourself. It is enough just to make a little effort, to realize your ideas, and you will get a unique board. Read about how to make a game yourself, what ideas can be generated that can be used to create all its aspects, what can be drawn and, in general, how to arrange the space, read this material.

How to make board games for children with your own hands?

When creating entertainment for children, the age of the child must be taken into account. Children's games require a verified scenario that will interest the child and captivate him for the entire period of time while the game is going on.

• first of all, the idea itself is important, around which the gameplay itself will be invented, and general details will be added;
• it is also necessary to decide on the scale of the board, because, for example, for preschoolers, you should create a game focusing on the location on the floor, as well as on large details;
• then you should create a sketch of the field with all the auxiliary elements that you are going to use;
• When testing, it is worth noting all the inaccuracies in order to make the board optimally interesting, taking into account the wishes of all participants, regardless of whether the middle age group is among children or the younger.

You can make, for example, a Treasure Hunt game. You will need a playing field, a cube and chips.

Whatman paper can be turned into a playing field. Draw cells for moves on it, think over the conditions when entering certain cells (like "go back 2 moves", "skip a move"). Do not forget to accompany each action with a thematic story, for example: “While traveling to the treasure island, you were attacked by pirates and damaged the ship. It will take time to fix it. Skip the move. "

Instead of chips, you can use bottle caps, buttons, etc.

If you want to make a board game that will be of interest to all family members, then you should ask all the direct participants in the action what they would like to see in the finished product. It is important to take into account that children will be especially interested in the game process if all household members are involved in it. In addition, a good board game miraculously develops communication skills and allows you to establish a trusting relationship with your child. You can also create an entertainment that you can invite friends to participate in. However, in this case, you should proceed from the interests that are characteristic of the company of people whom you want to involve in this.

From ideas for creating a board game with your own hands:

• Puzzle. You print a picture on a color printer and ... cut it into small pieces! Now try all together to restore the image.
• Monopoly. The whole family will like this game, especially since you make it yourself, which means that you think over all the conditions yourself. You can simplify, or vice versa, complicate the rules of the classic game.
• "Tic-tac-toe". We used to play Tic-Tac-Toe on paper and then throw it away. As a rule, a maximum of two people can play it. You can improve this game. Take a piece of cardboard or whatman paper, outline the playing field. Then take the corks from under the plastic bottles and draw the same number of crosses and zeros on the inside. Now these counters can be easily moved around the playing field, they can be used many times. Instead of corks, you can use pebbles, cardboard chips, etc.

How to make DIY board games for adults?

You can diversify a romantic evening with your soul mate by coming up with a board specifically for this. Such games for two can somehow liberate both participants and even bring some freshness to the relationship or bring them to a new level. When creating an erotic game, it is necessary to know the character traits of your partner and to start from them. However, it is better to test the draft version together in order to avoid various nuances. It is important to know that entertainment of this kind is not a protracted prelude, it should be aimed precisely at warming up mutual feelings in both participants.

Board game "Monopoly". Do it yourself

Monopoly! How much sense there is in this word, even for a person who is not a market analyst! However, no one forbids taking the principle of "Monopoly" as a basis, and developing points, cards and everything else on your own, just for the company in which you are going to play.

The following are options for other games you might want to consider:

• « Jackal "- variable game based on pirate motives;
• "Friday" is a well-known entertainment where you have to sculpt pieces of paper on your forehead and guess who you are;
• "Lord of Tokyo" - a classic role-playing board with a dice;
• SDA - teach your child the rules of the road;
• "Crocodile" - a game that suits any company.

"Erudite" - do-it-yourself board game

"Erudite", or « Scrabble is a classic word game that does an excellent job of building vocabulary and teaching spelling. To create it yourself, you need a magnetic alphabet, but if possible, then wood will also work as a material. For this lesson, you will need letters and a few A4 sheets of lined cells. You yourself will not notice how this entertainment will captivate you completely and irrevocably.

How to make a board game out of Lego?

"Lego" as a constructor, in principle, has many possibilities for use. Just a couple of Lego sets will be enough to create any kind of board - from role-playing to football. In addition, you can supplement the space by creating a field and a large number of game parts yourself from various available materials, for example, paper, cardboard or wood. With a little smartness and awakening your inner designer, you can create a truly captivating and unique masterpiece of the gaming industry.

How to make board games for the New Year with your own hands?

New Year is not only delicious food, a Christmas tree, various ritual customs, but also entertainment! The very setting of this holiday, described in many works of world culture, allows you to maximize your development, creating New Year's games. In addition, you can come up with and implement a whole original entertainment for a children's party that will captivate children and create the necessary mood. This should always be taken into account when creating various details that will emphasize the festive atmosphere.

Once you learn how to make a cube, creating games of any kind will be overwhelming for you. The cube can be cut from wood, glued from paper, or any other material you like. Similar rules work when creating chips, organizer, box and playing field. Let your imagination fly and create the props for the game exactly as you see them yourself.

DIY educational board games with letters

Educational games should combine two most important functions: they should provide knowledge to the child in an accessible form, without difficulties and terminology, but at the same time they should also be presented in a fun way that would make the assimilation of this knowledge easy and simple. For this type of leisure, you should try when working with cards, since they should have a bright design, but not so catchy that the child could be distracted in the process.

How to make a cool board game?

You need to know how to create interesting games, so it is important when writing a script and drawing up a layout to consider how potentially fun it should ultimately turn out to be. A homemade game always has a certain charm, because based on your own experience and imagination, you can create a whole world in which you can take your child. That is why it is necessary to come up with a setting that would meet all the above criteria. Such entertainment will be interesting for the whole family, and in addition, individual details can be changed or supplemented during the game.

DIY board game

Depending on your creativity, you can create a board that would relate to a specific genre.

Below are examples of ideas, from which you can build on when creating:

role-playing game - a board game, completely and completely sharpened for subjective imagination. Especially for this, you will need to invent a whole world with its own unique races, character classes and other things;

strategy - here all participants will have to take on the role of military commanders, so you should take into account how the gameplay will go;

sports games - ideal for creating board games. You can build on different sports.

DIY printed board games

PNP (PrintAndPlay) games are always fairly easy to make. For them, you need to find a layout on the Internet (we recommend the Printgames.ru site), which will not be difficult, print and play! In addition, printed didactic games can be created by yourself, armed with a graphic editor.

We have a great idea - a "magic bag" with all sorts of things, which contains handmade games for children that will keep your fidget busy for a long time. So roll up your sleeves and get ready to have a great weekend with the kids with our DIY toddler games ideas.

We offer you a bunch of ideas on how to keep your child busy at home when he is bored and tired of all the toys a long time ago. At the same time, you will not have to spend too much money on new games, what is under the other will be enough to make new fun for children with your own hands.

10 DIY games for kids to keep your child busy at home

A selection of great games that you can make your child with your own hands to keep him busy at home.

Drawing illusion

Kids love to paint, but frankly, it's always stressful for mom. If you do not know what to do with your child at home, give him colored and thick sheets, brushes and a small container of water instead of white paper and paints.

He will dip the brush in water and paint on colored paper. The paper will darken where water gets in and your child will think they are drawing. There will be no catastrophe in the apartment.

DIY constructor for a child

How to entertain a child at home if he is from one to three years old? Children of this age simply adore toys with many details.

For example, Mr. Potato. cut out potatoes from felt, also cut out eyes, nose, hats, mustaches, and other attributes from felt of other colors. You can take it with you in your bag or leave it at home, but in any case, Mr. Potato will bring a lot of joy. The best game for toddlers is hard to come up with.

The second option is possible.

Spy bottle - DIY game for children

All that is required is to delve deeply into your drawer in search of all sorts of unnecessary little things: buttons, small toys, thimbles, keys. Take a picture of them, spreading them out on the table, then put them in a bottle and cover them with rice or other cereals.

When you need free time, give the child a photograph and, asking him to find all the elements from the picture. You can create these games for toddlers with your own hands over and over again.

Ice cream stick games for kids

A great way to keep kids busy at home.

Print drawings of various geometric shapes (triangle, square, rhombus) and let your child, using the drawing, try to fold the same figure from sticks. Unlike counting sticks, which also work, ice cream sticks are not easy to lose.

You can also make a jigsaw puzzle with ice cream sticks. To do this, a few more ice cream sticks (or use those for the figures, but on the back). Cut any photo into strips and glue to sticks. Your little one will be able to put the puzzle together to make a picture. The advantage of this game for toddlers is that it is not a pity to lose or spoil it, and it is also easy to make a new one.

DIY lacing games

A great idea of ​​what to do with your child at home is to give him an object with holes in which you can stick the lace... Cut out shapes from foam, cardboard or paper plate and make holes around the edges. Give your child some kind of sturdy string that can be threaded through these very holes.

You can just as well use cocktail straws or fluffy wire instead of cord and a colander (slotted spoon) instead of cardboard to keep your child at home for a while.

DIY games with plastic utensils

Surely, every mother somewhere at home had plastic spoons and cups from some kind of feast lying around. You can also make educational games for kids with your own hands of them.

Take several transparent, white and colored plastic spoons. Then, with a marker, draw identical patterns on one colored and one transparent. On the rest of the spoons, also draw different figures according to this principle.

The meaning of this game for toddlers is so that your child can find two spoons with the same icon and put them on top of one another. This will not only save you if you do not know what to do with your child at home, but will also teach your child to distinguish between figures.

You can do the same with plastic cups. Such games can keep the kid at home for a long time.

Stringing pasta

We've all seen what the kids are doing somewhere in class, so why not play with dry pasta at home.

Give your child the pasta that has a hole in it and a string, after tying a large knot at one end to keep the pasta from falling off. Children can make beads or just a long-long bunch of pasta in different shapes and colors.

You can also suggest stringing pasta on wire or sticks stuck in a plasticine or foam base. Also, pasta can be replaced with other materials: colored beads or cardboard.

Sorting squares of colored cardboard

Another activity that not only entertains, but also develops. For this DIY game for children, buy colored cardboard, cut it into small squares of different colors and attach it to a clothespin. Lay out a palette of colors in front of the child and let him try to attach a square of cardboard of the desired color with a clothespin. This is both a fun and educational game for toddlers.

We model the figures with our own hands

To keep the child at home profitably and at no special cost, give him plasticine and toothpicks (there is an edible version of the game with marshmallows and straws) and offer to create volumetric figures using plasticine to connect sticks.

DIY cardboard box games

To keep your child busy at home, make him out of the shoes. The box itself can be turned into foosball with a couple of cocktail tubes. And the lid is in the ball maze: just glue ice cream sticks or cocktail tubes to the box.

Sunlight games

Place, put a sheet of paper next to it and invite the children to trace the shadow along the contour.

Crafts from colored paper

Crafts from colored paper are an easy way to keep your child busy for quite some time. It is not necessary to do something specific, you can just give a set of cut-out figures (stripes, circles, squares, rectangles, triangles) and invite the child to dream up.

Water games

A quick way to keep the child at home without much effort on the part of adults: pour water into the basin, put small objects (plastic bottle caps, balls) and instruct the child to get them out with chopsticks, a spoon, or a scoop.

Obstacle course at home

Take colored tape, electrical tape or masking tape, stick it on the floor in the form of tracks and islands. Then, to keep the children busy, invite them to go through an obstacle or to race with toy cars, roll a small ball along the path, blowing at it through a cocktail straw.

Funny drawings and collages from scrap materials

A simple recipe for keeping your child busy at home using drawing. Just give him unnecessary magazines, handouts or old postcards, scissors, glue, paper and pencils. Then the child cuts out characters that are interesting to him, sticks them on a blank sheet, and draws what he considers necessary.

Such games not only help to keep the child busy so that he does not get bored at home, but also develop imagination, train fine motor skills.

Now you know what to do with your child at home, and what toys for this you can quickly and easily build with your own hands.