Home Made Ringtoss Craft
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2003 9:06 PM
 Everyone will enjoy making and playing this fun game.
|
Cold weather is already here. Now, with most of our time being devoted to the indoors, we will need amusements to divert and entertain until our time may once again be turned to the out of doors. While you are waiting for the sun to come back out, here is a fun craft to make. It may be played anywhere, but is great fun when
| |
| Finished Game |
|
played inside.
What you will need:
A Clothesline 1 yard long (36 inches)
3 old fashioned clothespins
A Cardboard box
Duck or Electrical tape
A Marker
How to construct:
To make the "Rings":
Cut the clothesline into 12" strips; Bend each
| |
| Tape ends of clothesline together |
|
strip into a circle and secure the ends together using duck or electrical tape (both come in a veriety of colors).
To make the score board:
Punch holes in the cardboard box (the top of a box that printer paper comes in works well, and may be acquired for free from most office supply stores or wholesale
| |
| Old Fashioned Clothespin |
|
clubs)
Using the three clothespins for pegs, push the heads of the pins into the holes.
To keep pegs from slipping though, use strips of tape on the underside to hold them in place.
Using the marker, write the number 5 under the middle clothespin and the number 3 under the other two.
How
| |
| Make holes in cardbard lid |
|
to play:
Now try to "make a ringer". You get 5 points for ringing the middle peg and three if you get one of the others.
When you have tossed three rings it is the next players turn, the game ends when one player earns 50 points or more.
| |
Home
Family