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Craft with your own hands: We make our son happy with a super game! A good alternative to a smartphone!

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In the age of the Internet, it becomes more and more difficult to captivate a child with some kind of games. Moreover, the older the children are, the less they are interested in ordinary board games and puzzles. But I recently found a great solution to this problem! My son and I made table hockey! Such a hand-made craft is very impressive and attracts children. I share our experience.

This is the kind of table hockey we made with our son
This is the kind of table hockey we made with our son

The dimensions of the hockey field came out - 85x40 cm.

We need a thick piece of plywood. We make 5 sides 5 cm high from it. Two long sides 85 cm long. Three short - 40 cm each.

In one of the planks in the center, it is necessary to make a small opening 2 cm high and 4 cm wide. This is the future gate. Sharp corners can be smoothed out with a router. If it is not there, you can leave the acute-angled gate.

Cut a hole in the center plank
This is what the frame looks like from 4 sides and a central plank with a hole

We fasten the sides to each other with glue and self-tapping screws.

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It is necessary to pre-siphon in order to deepen the screws. You will need to attach an elastic band to the sides. Therefore, it is worthwhile to immediately outline where it will be located and drill holes for it.

We fasten the sides

Cover the sides with wax of a dark shade.

The frame is ready. Now we need to equip our hockey field with a bottom. To do this, we take a sheet of fiberboard, adjust it to the size of the frame and nail it to the sides with small nails for furniture.

We nail the bottom of the fiberboard with furniture nails

Moving on to the rubber band. This will be a kind of starting device.

We fix 2 rubber bands on the field

You will need two elastic bands of the same size. We insert them into the holes. For convenience, you can use a regular paper clip. It should look like this:

Rubber bands are the launch of washers

The hockey field is ready! Let's move on to creating pucks.

We got 28 goals.

These are the pucks we got 28 pieces

We used a round birch block to make the washers. You can make it yourself or buy a ready-made one. Perhaps you have round legs from a stool or chair of a suitable diameter somewhere. In this case, you can simply saw them into washers.

Or you can bring a bar with a square section to a round one - using a carriage for tapered round legs. We did just that.

We took a block 50 cm long. I drilled holes on the end sides of the block in the center to secure the hammer nut.

Then I placed the block on the carriage and cut off all the corners, making an octagon out of the square.

Cut corners on a square bar

Then I rounded off the corners. Then he turned the block on the carriage with a screwdriver and processed it with sandpaper.

Round off the edges of the bar
Round off the edges of the bar

When the block took a round shape, I sawed it into washers of the same size.

Divide the bar into washers of the same size

They must be properly sanded and coated with used oil.

These are the washers that turned out after grinding
These are the washers that turned out after grinding

The result is a great homemade game that we put together with our son! Now we play table hockey regularly! What I wish you too!

Now this is our family's favorite game!

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