Board game is a favorite entertainment for children of any age. Funny “walkers”, developing “monopolies” and other interesting games are a great pastime for the whole family. There are board games in every house: they are received for their birthday, purchased in the store in order to entertain children with an exciting game.
Table games
Children and parents love board games and are happy to devote leisure time to family play. However, over time, after long use, cardboard gaming items begin to scatter and get lost. In a particularly incomprehensible way, the smallest and most necessary details - chips disappear. Without chips, a game cannot begin and continue. The chip characterizes each player, acts "hands of the owner" and "instead of it" moves around the playing field. The loss of such a detail does not mean tragedy, because you can easily make chips like store ones.
Chip replacement
If there is no time for the creative process, but you really want to play, children instead of chips use multi-colored buttons. It is necessary to select bright accessories, suitable in size and having strong differences in color.
The creative potential of children is very high, they find a lot of "substitutes" instead of factory "boring" chips:
- bright caps (from pens, felt-tip pens);
- kinder surprises;
- candy;
- pebbles;
- chessmen;
- multi-colored erasers;
- shells;
- large beads;
- chestnuts.
To make the game even more interesting, creative parents or children think about how to make chips with their own hands, so that they are interesting, related to the game with a common theme.
Method for the invention of chips
Creating chips is an interesting creative process that can captivate children for a while.
Thinking about how to make chips, you can use the following materials:
- plasticine;
- paper;
- the cloth;
- glue;
- images;
- matches.
If you have the necessary raw materials, you need to figure out how the chips will look, which game to match. Creative imagination will allow, before making chips, come up with funny figures for each game.
Making standard chips out of plasticine is easy. A piece of the desired color breaks off and rolls with palms to the shape of a pointed triangle. The bottom of the chip must be made flat so that it stands stably. With great imagination and time consumption, funny characters are created from plasticine: little people, animals who perfectly cope with the role of a game chip.
Some girls sew little hearts out of cloth, which instead of a chip walk on the playing field.
Ideas for Chips
There are several ways to make paper chips.
- To play "Business" or "Monopoly", players invent "solid" chips. A small image of the rich and the oligarchs is cut out of paper or a magazine and glued to a small piece of cardboard. Cut out the same number of cardboard rectangles corresponding to the size of the pictures with the "rich." An incision is made in the bottom middle of the picture, into which a mini-rectangle is inserted. Thanks to the created cardboard core, the new chip becomes stable.
- The second option, how to make chips, involves a match in the course. A vivid picture suitable for the position of a “game element” is attached to a match with glue. To make a match stable a piece of plasticine will help. The pictures may contain images of animals, birds, fairy-tale characters, movie stars, celebrities, funny emoticons.
- The easiest way to make chips for the game: cut out the same identical circles from color cardboard, colorful cards. To make the chips voluminous, stick them on the outer or inner side of the bottle caps. Covers can be both plastic and tin.
- Cut small figures of animals or fairy-tale characters from books, candy wrappers or draw with your own hands. Glue on a thick sheet of cardboard. On the back of the figure attach a stand: a piece of cardboard glued to the figure in the form of the letter "l".
Before making chips, you should pay attention to what board game they are made for. To play poker, you need to depict multi-colored circles with numbers in the middle, for playing backgammon - enough cardboard round details of two colors. “Walkers” become more interesting if, instead of faceless chips, “participants” are thematically executed chips in the form of people, animals, emoticons and other interesting characters.