Go Play Outside! How to Make an Epic DIY Yard Yahtzee Set
by Ryan for Momtastic
We’re always looking for new ways to get the kids OUT of the kitchen and playing in the yard! Here is an easy DIY to super-size one of your favorite board games to yard-game status. Get ready to be rolling these giant dice and yelling “Yahtzee” all summer long!
Supplies:
5 wood blocks
Woodburning tool
Circle woodburning attachment
2 clothespins
Wood glue
Small clamps
Aluminum bucket
Instructions:
Step 1: Get your supplies ready! Michael’s sells wooden blocks that are perfect for this DIY. If you can’t find them, you can always trim down a 4×4 piece of wood into five square blocks.
Step 2: Next, we need to make a template so that the dots of our dice are all in the same spot. Start by taking apart your clothespins and gluing the edges together to form a right angle. This angle will hook to the side of your wood block to help determine the distance you should imprint the dots from each corner.
Step 3: Once the glue has dried, you are ready to start making dots on your dice. Plug in your woodburning tool and let it get sufficiently hot. Place your two templates on the corner of a woodblock, and burn a circle at the corner where the two templates meet. Be careful - woodburning tools get extremely hot!
Step 4: We are starting with the side of the dice with six dots, so continue making wood-burned dots in all four corners of this side. Then, using the clothespin template on one edge, make a dot between two of the corner dots. Continue the process on each side of the wooden block for each numbered side.
Step 5: For sides that have a dot in the center, just eyeball your woodburning tool in the center. This includes the 1, the 3, and the 5. Continue around until you have burned all six sides of each wooden block.
Step 6: Voila! You’re done- and now your workspace probably smells like a campfire too.
Step 7: Take your dice and place them in your aluminum bucket and you are ready to play. Standard rules of Yahtzee apply, which you can download from Hasbro. Download this handy Yahtzee scorecard to keep track of your score while you play.
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