Hold on to your large chocolate boxes because they can make a super base for a matching board game.
MY INTENTION!
In this post, I will show you how you can make an easy matching game for kids, simply by laying out random coloured papers and using coloured halved tubes, to match as pieces to play with!
BOARD GAME!
As my previous post was also about making a kids’ board game called ‘Tic Tac Toe’, I thought hey! let’s do another one!
GREAT GIFT!
I was lucky to receive a luxurious box of chocolates last Christmas and kept hold of the empty box to use it for a project at a later date, and hey! here we are.
LARGE SIZE!
The size of this box is approx. 380x380mm with a lid and I decided to use the inside of the lid and double up as another board game which worked quite nicely, I will show you this in the demo later.
EASIER TO HOLD!
For little hands, I felt halving the tubes to use as pieces to work with would be easier for little hands to hold, (featured in the previous post).
Sorry! I can’t get away from using cardboard inner tubes and I do feature them a lot, they are simply so accessible, but they work too don’t you think?
COLOURED SQUARES!
I decided to use coloured squared papers as the focus to place the matching coloured tube pieces on.
BACK TO THE MATCHING GAME!
What do we know about matching games? Well not only are they fun games for kids to play with, but also they will learn other skills too for example:
- Learning colours.
- Matching colours.
- Using fine motor skills.
- Decision making.
- Turn taking.
- Attention and concentration.
- Sharing, if 2 players.