Use the remaining cardboard as a stencil and spray a row of six circles in each color on the grass. Use a pan, paint can or other round object to use as a template, then trace it on cardboard and cut it out. Get some spray paint in red, green, blue and yellow. But if not, most can be found at your local hardware or craft supply store, the latter of which often has 40% to 50% off coupons on their apps or newspaper fliers.
You may have some of the supplies for these games lurking in a corner of your garage or basement, which will make creating them even cheaper. Fortunately, you can make these jumbo games yourself without breaking your budget. These are perfect for the kids to play with all summer or for pulling out for a summer party. You may have seen those giant outdoor games made from ordinary board games. I hope you pick your favorite and have giant backyard fun with your family and friends.Game time is fun, but for bigger fun, you need bigger games. You could also choose a variety of lawn Gnomes to be the pieces. They do complicate it, but you’ll get the idea. Dunn Lumber has a nice tutorial you can see if you click here. Screw them into some cut-up chunks of 4×4’s, paint them black and white and you’re all set. I saw a set made from the finials of fence posts. You can buy them, click here to see some on Amazon, or you can DIY them. You can go to the trouble of leveling the ground and laying the squares out perfectly, or if you’re not a perfectionist, you can pick a reasonably level area of the yard and just lay the concrete out in a chessboard pattern.Īs for the pieces, there are again many, many options. I’m sure it can be complicated easily by my family, but here is the simple way to have a creative built-in backyard chess (or checkers) board of your very own.īuild the board using red and black, or white and black pre-cast 12″ concrete squares. How cool would it be to have a giant chess board in your backyard? Believe it or not, this is a super easy DIY project. There’s the super simple A Girl And A Glue Gun paper dish version on the easy side, and the complex, break out your woodworking tools version on the lots of work side.Ĭhess, The Game of Kings. There are many different DIY designs to choose from when deciding to build a giant four in a row game for the backyard. The classic four in a row game made famous by Milton Bradly’s Connect Four is now a hugely popular backyard game. If making the Scrabble board is too much work, just get the tiles and make anagrams. The Scrabble tiles can be made of tile or wood. This same look can be achieved by laying 4×4 tile inside the frame. Once the concrete had cured for one month, she colored the squares using water-base concrete stains. The creator of this patio scrabble board made a wood frame, then poured concrete and scored it into 3¾-inch squares separated by ¼-inch joints. With all that Scrabble love out there, it’s not surprising that giant backyard Scrabble is actually quite popular. There are approximately 4,000 Scrabble clubs around the world.
And why not, according to Wikipedia, The game is sold in 121 countries and is available in more than 30 languages approximately 150 million sets have been sold worldwide, and roughly one-third of American and half of British homes have a Scrabble set.
As an Amazon Affiliate, we may earn a small commission from qualified purchases. This post contains links to products we think you may like and find helpful. I’ve included DIY instructions or Amazon links for them. Here is a look at some of my favorite toys and games that are “relatively” easy to make yourself or readily available to buy. From DIY to Amazon, there’s an option for everyone. Today it’s relatively common to have larger versions to life-size versions of games for the yard, and you don’t even have to be rich to afford them.
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Well, giant lawn games are not just movie magic. (See what I did there? Very cool, I hope I’m not the only one that gets it) These are just two examples of giant lawn fun had in the movies. Do you remember life-size lawn chess in “History of The World, Part 1” (a Mel Brooks classic)? How much fun did that look like? “It’s good to be the King.” What about the hedge maze in “The Shining”? Very cool.
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