What do you need?
plastic caps
acrylic paint
glass jar with a lid
brushes
wooden skewer
hole puncher
a black marker
hobby glue
piece cardboard
an exacto knife
We recycle the caps of milk cartons, an empty jam jar and the cardboard of a letterbox package and make a fun game out of it. We transform the caps into ladybugs and you can store the bugs in the jar. To play you slide the critters through the gates in the cardboard grass with a swish. Who gets the most bugs through wins. We have lots of fun playing!
How you make this game
Paint the caps in a pretty colour.
Let the paint dry completely.
Paint the lid of the glass jar.
Let the paint dry completely.
A printed lid needs at least three coats of paint, let the paint dry well in between!
Paint a head, using a strip of cardstock.
Paint a head on the lid.
Painting in the holes fails.
When you remove the cardstock you smear the paint
So use a stick, it works best.
Paint dots on the lid of the jar as well.
Allow the paint to dry completely again!
Punch out white circles using a hole puncher.
Draw pupils with the black marker then stick the eyes on the heads, you can store the ladybugs in the glass jar
Cut a strip from the cardboard of --x--cm.
Draw thick blades of grass on the cardboard.
Paint the grass, it doesn't have to be neat, you're going to cut it out.
Cut out the top and the bottom of the grass.
Score the sides of the cardboard grass, fold them and then cut out little gates, so the ladybugs can pass through them
Fetch the ladybugs and slide away!
Slide the ladybugs across a smooth surface.
Whoever gets the most critters through the gates wins!
Have fun!