SOMETHING TO MAKE

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 263, 6 November 1929, Page 20

SOMETHING TO MAKE

I It is sometimes hard to find soine--1 thing new and interesting to do in the evenings, isn't it? And there'll still be a few cold ones to keep us indoors. All your books and toys seems to lose their attraction, and you wish, oh, so much, for something different new to do. ,' " ~-. ..? ■ ■ One evening you might make a game for yourself, one that you will be able to play many times with your friends. You need a big sheet of white cardboard or paper—cardboard for preference, because it won't get. crimpled but will keep nice and flat. • " . This sheet ypu must mark off into two-inch squares. Make"' these plain by inking them in, and the squares should be painted in in different colours. Of course, you'll have to repeat the colours, but that all adds to the attraction of the game. Now to play, you need some counters —you can borrow them from your ludo or tiddleywinks set. If this is not possible, make some counters from discs of cardboard, shaping them by a halfpenny, and colouring them to match the squares on the board. To play the game you must place the board at one end of the table and stand at the other. Then you throw up the discs, trying to get them on to their corresponding colours. Each player throws in turn. To score, the player who gets a counter right in a corresponding square counts two. To get it partly on a square counts one. And the player who scores the greater l number wins the game.

Once you start this game you'll enjoy it so much that you won't want to leave it to go to bed when mother calls you!