These are really fun! I could have made them myself but what with Christmas, house guests, giving birth and nursing 24/7 and all, I just haven't had the time to be cutting out little quarter-sized swatches of Velcro and sandpaper, you know? But store-bought or homemade, this is still an amazing game.
Instead of the traditional number-based domino game, this version is based on colors and textures. These are sold at both Discount School Supply and Montessori & Such for about $15.
They really would be simple and fun to make though. For a nice, long lasting set you could use scrap wood or buy these small rectangles. For a fast & cheap version, try index cards or card stock as the base. The textures on our store-bought set are red & yellow Velcro (prickly & fuzzy sides), white sponge, gray sandpaper, small blue corrugated cardboard (probably painted), woven straw (like maybe from a placemat?), & green craft foam. A cheap trip to the craft and/or hardware store wwould provide you with everything else you needed. Remember to get different colors, too. Then just use a quarter or something similar to get the sizes of all your cut-outs uniform. Use hot glue or spray mount (depending on what you used for your base) to attach the textures to the base pieces. You could also skip the textures and just do colors using paint or markers or those round pricing stickers available at staples. Our set has 28 tiles.
They really would be simple and fun to make though. For a nice, long lasting set you could use scrap wood or buy these small rectangles. For a fast & cheap version, try index cards or card stock as the base. The textures on our store-bought set are red & yellow Velcro (prickly & fuzzy sides), white sponge, gray sandpaper, small blue corrugated cardboard (probably painted), woven straw (like maybe from a placemat?), & green craft foam. A cheap trip to the craft and/or hardware store wwould provide you with everything else you needed. Remember to get different colors, too. Then just use a quarter or something similar to get the sizes of all your cut-outs uniform. Use hot glue or spray mount (depending on what you used for your base) to attach the textures to the base pieces. You could also skip the textures and just do colors using paint or markers or those round pricing stickers available at staples. Our set has 28 tiles.
Besides just matching and lining them up, which Huck really enjoys
doing, you can also play it like a real game of dominoes with 2-4
players. Each player gets a certain number of tiles to start out and
the rest go in the pot. Start with one piece from the pot to play on
then take turns building on that. If you don't have a piece to play in
your hand, you have to draw from the pot until you do. First person to
empty their hand wins.
Get one or make one. It's a really great game for the the preschooler set.
EDITED: Chrissy at Chica Schmica made a set! They're wonderful and might give you a better idea of the possibilities for this project.
Get one or make one. It's a really great game for the the preschooler set.
EDITED: Chrissy at Chica Schmica made a set! They're wonderful and might give you a better idea of the possibilities for this project.
