Playing Card Games with Kids (Card Holding Board Tutorial)
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Card games are fun to play with kids. Make this card holding board so that little hands don’t get frustrated.
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FishPapa and I have always loved to play games. I’m not sure if it stems from a lack of video and television for more than half our marriage or if we would have played Trivial Pursuit with a vengeance even with the TV in the background. But, suffice it to say, we love games.
And I hate to lose.
But, that’s a post for another day….
And even though, Mr. TV lurks in the background nowadays, we still love to play games, only now we have up to 7 players! Our favorite games to play with the family include Skip Bo, Uno, Blink — all easily portable card games.
Early on we discovered that it was difficult for young children to hold all their cards without sharing their hand with the whole world. Not a big deal with honest parents, but somewhat disconcerting once you’ve got older siblings to contend with.
Enter the Card-Board
FishPapa created a set of these “card-boards” for our toddlers and younger children to use. Similar to the Scrabble tile holders, these card-boards hold any number of cards so that little people can see their cards without laying them all out on the table.
If you’ve got a handy man — or woman — in the family, these are quite easy to make. Well, sort of. I mean, I didn’t make them. But, they look easy enough. Sort of.
Make Your Own Card-Boards
FishPapa’s directions:
Cut several large planks out of 1×6 or 1×8 clear pine. Cut the channels with a table-saw set half-way through the material at about a 10° angle. A thin-kerf blade works best. (That just means that the blade is thin so that it doesn’t make too wide of a cut.) Sand and smooth any rough edges.
See? That wasn’t hard, was it? And you’ll have so much fun playing cards with your kids once you get tooled up with card-boards.
What a great idea. I think I will show my husband and see if we can make a couple. I can see these being useful for card games but also school activities
Love this idea, could totally use some of these! You should totally sell these!
Another idea would be to cut a phone book binding off to about 1 1/2 inch width. The binding holds the cards very well and is CHEAP! You can make enough for all the neighborhood kids!
Great idea for reusing old books!
My mom used to do that when we were kids!
I had a thought, and I am a quilter. I have one of those that holds all my quilt rulers. If you didn’t have anyone who could make you one for you, you could get one at your local quilt store that holds quilt rulers, they come in single, double or more rows…the more rows the higher the price, but 10 dollars would be worth it for my little one. Thanks for the idea! Now I’m not just taking things from the kitchen into my sewing room, LOL.
As the kids get a little older… try the game “Five Crowns” (It has elements of rummy so they need to understand of-a-kinds and runs). It’s a BIG hit with DH and I. (DS is only 19m, so he doesn’t get to play yet.) We also like most of “Looney Labs” games, Fluxx specifically.
These are WONDERFUL – putting on hubby’s to-do list right now!!! This will make family game night soooo much less stressful 🙂 Thanks for sharing!!!
You should totally sell these on Etsy. I would buy them!
Can one make any money on Etsy?
Here’s the info on how to sell on Etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/sell?ref=so_sell
You sell handmade items- they host a storefront for you and take 3.5% of what you sell them for.
This is such a great idea. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the directions. That would work well for the elderly as well.
We use a large chip clip. FishPapa’s creation is really cool.