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    DIY games

    • Collage of small games with text overlay, stocking stuffer games.
      Stocking Stuffer Games Will Be Everyone's Favorite Gift
    • Blue and orange paper cut into fraction sizes.
      Fraction Games for Kids: Visual Learning (Free Printable)
    • Four Shut the Box number boards, two dice and tokens.
      Shut the Box Printable Game (Instructions and Board)
    • Rota game board with three yellow tokens and 3 blue tokens on the board.
      How to Play Roman Tic Tac Toe (Rota)
    • Game pieces and dice on table surface with text, make your own board game
      The Gift You Never Thought Of: Make Your Own Board Game Kit
    • Tchuka Ruma game board with button tokens
      Tchuka Ruma: Solitaire Game for Kids
    • Child using diy catapult for target practice on the floor
      Easy DIY Catapult and Target Game for Kids
    • Tic tac toe games on colorful sticky notes with text box overlay, "8 versions of Tic-Tac-Toe"
      8 Tic-Tac-Toe Variations
    • Stacks of white and black counters for playing Nim game
      NIM: A Simple Counting Game to Teach Subtraction Skills
    • Lau kata kati game board in shape of two triangles connected at a single vertex with green and orange square tokens
      Lau Kata Kati: A Traditional Strategy Game from India
    • Kolowis awithlaknannai game board with 1 orange token at top of far right diamond and four green tokens on points below.
      Kolowis Awithlaknannai: Fighting Serpents Game
    • Opening set up for shisima with six colored tokens on opposite side of the perimiter
      Shisima: 3-in-a-Row Game from Kenya
    • Kaooa game board in star shape and tokens placed on intersections of star points.
      Kaooa: Traditional Abstract Strategy Hunt Game from India
    • Board game and tokens for Queah strategy game
      How to Play Queah: An Abstract Strategy Game from Liberia
    • 3 in a row win shown on tsoro yematatu game board
      Tsoro Yematatu: 3-in-a-Row Game from Zimbabwe
    • Pen and paper games written on blank page of notebook.
      Fun Pen and Paper Games to Cure Boredom
    • Picaria game board, 3 yellow and 3 blue tokens on board.
      Picaria: 3-in-a-Row Game from the American Southwest
    • Mu Torere board game with 8 pointed star and 4 each of yellow and red tokens.
      Mū Tōrere: A Traditional Abstract Strategy Game from New Zealand
    • Four steps showing Instructions for Tapatan.
      Tapatan: A Brain Boosting Twist on Tic-Tac-Toe
    • Opening positions for watermelon chess
      Bust Boredom and Get Smart with Watermelon Chess
    • Martinetti game board, consisting of two rows of 12 rectangles, numbered 1-12, three dice, two tokens.
      Martinetti Dice Game: A Nail-Biting Family Game of Chance
    • Fox and geese game board consisting of squares laid out in cross pattern, with example of geese winning.
      Fox and Geese: A Traditional Abstract Strategy Game
    • Two Funny flips paper games; one partially open. Each paper shows a column of words: noun-verb-adverb.
      Funny Flips: A Word Game for Kids
    • Collection of round tokens with quantities written on them for Lulu dice game from Hawaii.
      Lu-lu Dice: A Fun Math Game from Hawai'i
    • DIY LEGO board game, LEGO book, pile of loose LEGO bricks.
      Make Your Own LEGO© Board Game
    • Graphic of bursting cloud on sky background with text that reads, "Memory Games for Kids" and inside cloud "turbo-boost your brain!"
      Screen-Free Memory Games for Kids
    • Telling time game made from colorful index cards with numbers and craft sticks as clock hands.
      Why A Story Telling Time Game is the Best Way to Teach Kids
    • Dara game board consisting of 6x5 grid and blue and orange cubic tokens.
      Dara Game: Nigerian 3 in a Row with a Twist
    • Two photos of Five Field Kona game boards with cube shaped tokens in blue and orange.
      Five Field Kono: Abstract Strategy Game from Korea
    • Pentalpha puzzle board in star shape with nine blue tokens
      Pentalpha Puzzle: A Brain Teaser from Crete
    • Nine Holes game board consisting of 2x2 squares, plus six playing tokens.
      Nine Holes: a 3 in a Row Game for Kids
    • Len Choa game board in shape of triangle bisected by two lines with six blue tokens and one orange token. Text reads "Len Choa an abstract strategy game from Thailand."
      Len Choa: Leopards and Tiger Game from Thailand
    • Peg solitaire triangle game created from 15 circles arranged on a paper in a pyramid shape. Assortment of blue and white pegs sit inside all the circles except one.
      The Tricky Tricky Peg Solitaire Triangle Game
    • Child reaching for tokens on Math Tic Tac Toe board of 3x3 grid.
      Math Tic-Tac-Toe: Fun Way to Practice Mental Math
    • Game board and tokens for Pong Hau K'i, a traditional game from China.
      Pong Hau K'i : DIY Board Game from China
    • Children's hands holding magnet wands and paper roll in plastic bucket surrounded by letter magnets.
      Sanity Saving Indoor Magnet Game
    • Paper with 4 x 4 grid of dots connected by lines with an x or o in each box.
      Dots and Boxes Game: An Indoor Game You Can Play Instantly
    • Large cardboard box with four large cut outs and child getting ready to throw ball at the box. Text overlay "diy carnival game".
      DIY Carnival Game for Indoor Fun

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